Executive Director, Capital and Engineering, Corporate Facility Management Services

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Executive Director Capital and Engineering Corporate Facility Management Services

Burlington NC Indianapolis IN or Durham NC

The Executive Director Capital and Engineering leads all capital and engineering planning and execution for Global Facilities Management & Real Estate (FM&RE) supporting approximately 3000 sites worldwide. This role sets enterprise strategies and policies that enable growth across offices laboratories and patient service centers. The position oversees the global 5year capital plan and manages an annual project portfolio of $100M$150M across 500 projects of varying size and complexity.

The Executive Director is accountable for standards work processes and performance across Capital Execution Construction Management Project Engineering and Reliability Engineering. This includes prioritizing major repairs and capital projects to meet business demands while strengthening a reliabilitydriven culture across all facility types.

Job Responsibilities

Capital Strategy & Governance

• Lead the enterprise capital planning process including portfolio prioritization business case development funding governance and longrange capital forecasting.

• Establish and enforce capital project management standards stagegate controls cost discipline risk management and assurance processes.

• Partner with executive leadership finance operations and supply chain to align capital investments with business strategy growth plans and financial targets.

• Provide transparent portfolio reporting to senior leadership including performance against cost schedule scope safety and value realization metrics.

Construction Management Leadership

• Oversee all construction management activities to ensure projects are executed safely efficiently and in compliance with regulatory environmental and quality standards.

• Set expectations for contractor management constructability reviews site safety culture and labor productivity.

• Drive continuous improvement in construction methods contracting strategies and cost control practices.

Project Engineering Oversight

• Lead the Project Engineering function to ensure strong frontend planning sound engineering design and technical rigor throughout the project lifecycle.

• Lead a team of 100200 colleagues and contingent staff located across the globe with the majority based in the U.S.

• Ensure projects meet defined scope quality operability and maintainability requirements.

• Champion engineering standards design reviews value engineering and integration between engineering procurement and construction.

Reliability Engineering & Asset Performance

• Provide strategic leadership over Reliability Engineering to optimize asset lifecycle performance availability and total cost of ownership.

• Integrate reliability principles into capital project design equipment selection and commissioning to support longterm operational excellence.

• Partner with operations and maintenance leaders to drive proactive reliability programs root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives.

People Leadership & Organizational Development

• Build lead and mentor highperforming teams across Construction Management Project Engineering and Reliability Engineering.

• Establish clear accountability development plans and succession pipelines for critical technical and leadership roles.

• Foster a culture of safety collaboration innovation and disciplined execution.

Risk Safety & Compliance

• Champion a zeroincident safety culture across all capital activities.

• Ensure compliance with applicable codes standards environmental regulations and internal policies.

• Identify assess and mitigate technical execution and financial risks across the capital portfolio.

External Partnerships & Industry Leadership

• Represent the organization with regulators industry groups and strategic partners.

• Establish strategic alliances with key vendors and engineering firms.

• Benchmark against industry leaders and adopt best practices.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Mechanical Electrical Civil Chemical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.

• 5 or more years of executivelevel leadership experience managing large multidisciplinary teams and enterprisescale capital portfolios.

• 15 or more years of progressive experience in capital project delivery engineering construction or asset reliability within industrial manufacturing energy utilities healthcare or complex facilities environments.

• 10 or more years of experience in project planning and execution across a diverse portfolio of facilities projects.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree in Mechanical Electrical Civil Chemical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.

• Masters degree in Business Administration (MBA)

• Professional Engineer (PE) license.

Additional Job Standards

• Deep knowledge of capital project governance frontend loading engineering design construction execution and reliability engineering principles.

• Proven ability to manage large capital budgets and deliver complex projects safely on time and within approved funding.

• Strong financial acumen including capital justification lifecycle cost analysis and portfolio optimization.

• Strategic thinker with strong execution discipline and attention to detail.

• Influential leader capable of partnering effectively with executives operations and external stakeholders.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present complex information clearly to senior leadership and boards.

• Change leader who drives standardization continuous improvement and organizational maturity.

• Comfortable working in and around vivariums.

Relocation assistance may be available.

Benefits:Employees regularly scheduled to work 20 or more hours per week are eligible for comprehensive benefits including: Medical Dental Vision Life STD/LTD 401(k) Paid Time Off (PTO) or Flexible Time Off (FTO) Tuition Reimbursement and Employee Stock Purchase regularly scheduled to work less than 20 hours Casual Intern and Temporary employees are only eligible to participate in the 401(k) who are regularly scheduled toworka 7 on/7 off schedule are eligible to receive all the foregoing benefits except PTO or FTO. For more detailed information pleaseclick here.

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