Senior Director, Facilities

1 Month ago • 7-10 Years • Facility Management

Job Summary

Job Description

The Senior Director, Facilities is responsible for facilities operations at bioMérieux SLC, overseeing a large campus including corporate offices, manufacturing centers, R&D laboratories, and warehousing. The role involves managing hard and soft services, facilities engineering, building maintenance, site master planning, and large capital projects. The director ensures compliance with regulations, safety requirements, and business continuity plans, while driving continuous improvement in operational and energy efficiency, and cost reduction. Responsibilities include leading space planning, managing facilities expansion projects, and providing leadership for engineering, operation, and maintenance. This also involves managing budgets, ensuring effective communication, and overseeing infrastructure risk mitigation. The role requires significant experience and leadership in facilities management within the life sciences or FDA regulated manufacturing, with a focus on cost reduction and operational efficiency, as well as experience managing large capital projects.
Must have:
  • Bachelor’s degree in facilities management or related field
  • 7-10 years managing facilities in life sciences or FDA regulated manufacturing
  • 10+ years of leadership experience in facilities maintenance
Good to have:
  • Proficiency with PCs, Microsoft Office, AutoCad
  • Experience in asset management, and calibration technology

Job Details

Position Summary

Responsible for facilities operations at bioMérieux SLC, supporting a large campus of regional corporate offices, ISO-regulated manufacturing centers, R&D laboratories, Bio Safety Labs, and warehousing.  Oversees hard and soft services, facilities engineering, building maintenance, site master planning, and management of large capital projects for facilities expansion. Ensures compliance to all applicable regulatory and safety requirements and is accountable for risk mitigation through business continuity plans. Drives continuous improvement with a focus on operational efficiency, energy efficiency and sufficiency, and cost reduction. Leads strategic planning and project execution to support corporate CSR initiatives for sustainability.

Primary Duties

  1. Performs all work in compliance with the Quality Management System.
  2. Leads strategic space planning and manages facilities expansion projects potentially as large as $50M. Manages engineering and architecture firms on key capital projects.
  3. With a strong emphasis on customer service, provide vision and leadership that includes cost-effective and energy efficient engineering, operation, maintenance, and repair for buildings, utilities, equipment and motor vehicles, ensuring a safe and pleasant work environment.
  4. Provides technical leadership, guidance and development for the facilities engineering and maintenance team compliant to local and federal and international regulations.
  5. Responsible for the department budget and for cost reduction and energy savings through continuous improvement.
  6. Manages internal support or contracted services for facilities maintenance and engineering, custodial, cafeteria, landscaping, security, and parking lot maintenance.
  7. Establishes expectations, manages contracts, and ensures compliance and delivery of contracted activities in cooperation with purchasing department procedures and requirements.
  8. Oversees infrastructure risk mitigation plans to ensure business continuity of a 24/7 operation supporting significant revenue for the business.
  9. Ensures effective communication across all levels of the organization.
  10. Responsible for the compliance, inspection and testing of all facilities infrastructure and equipment.
  11. Prepare reports regarding utilities, departmental efficiency, budget, cost analysis, etc.
  12. May oversee security operations at the site
  13. Other duties as assigned.

Supplemental Information:

Maintains >1 million SF across six buildings in the SLC area, serving more than 3,000 team members. Responsible for all aspects of facilities operations and maintenance for a 24/7 manufacturing scope supplying >30% of global company revenue. The site also serves as the North American corporate headquarters and houses senior and executive leaders. Leads the site master plan and may direct capital projects in excess of $50M for key facilities expansion projects. Requires technical aptitude to select and manage engineering and architecture firms working on facilities expansion projects.

Education and Experience:

  • Requires a bachelor’s degree in facilities management, engineering, construction management, or related field.
  • Requires 7-10 years’ experience managing facilities in life sciences or FDA regulated manufacturing.
  • Requires 10+ years of significant leadership experience overseeing facilities maintenance teams and budgets with demonstrated experience in cost reduction and operational efficiency.
  • Requires experience working with engineering and architectural firms in facilities designs and the ability to manage large capital projects more than $50M.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  1. Must be proficient the use of PCs, including Microsoft Office package and AutoCad, and have familiarity with maintenance work order systems.  Experienced in SAP is a plus.
  2. Experience in asset management, and calibration technology / techniques are highly preferred.
  3. Attention to detail and the ability to complete work on time and in a thorough and complete manner in compliance with regulatory requirements is required.
  4. Ability to work and communicate with all types of personnel from contractual, hourly and executive management.

Please be aware that recruitment related scams are on the rise. Fraudulent job postings are being placed on other websites, and individuals posing as bioMérieux Talent Acquisition team members are reaching out via email or text message in an attempt to collect your personal and confidential information. In some cases, these scammers are also conducting bogus interviews prior to extending fraudulent offers of employment. Beware of individuals reaching out using general phone numbers and non-bioMerieux email domains (i.e. Hotmail.com, Gmail.com, Yahoo.com, etc.). If you are concerned that an interview experience or offer of employment might be a scam, please make sure you are searching for the posting on our careers site https://careers.biomerieux.com/ or contact us at recruitment@biomerieux.com.

BioMérieux Inc. and its affiliates are Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information. Please be advised that the receipt of satisfactory responses to reference requests and the provision of satisfactory proof of an applicant’s identity and legal authorization to work in the United States are required of all new hires. Any misrepresentation, falsification, or material omission may result in the failure to receive an offer, the retraction of an offer, or if already hired, dismissal. If you are a qualified individual with a disability, you may request a reasonable accommodation in BioMérieux’s or its affiliates’ application process by contacting us via telephone at (385) 770-1132, by email at recruitment@biomerieux.com, or by dialing 711 for access to Telecommunications Relay Services (TRS).

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