Manager, Facilities

We are seeking a hands-on Facilities Manager to lead maintenance facilities and tool room support for our high-volume manufacturing operation in Sanford NC. This role is responsible for keeping equipment utilities tooling and building systems safe reliable compliant and production-ready.

The ideal candidate is a strong technical leader who can solve urgent shop-floor issues while also building better maintenance systems improving equipment reliability developing people managing contractors and capital work and planning for the long-term health of the facility.

Key Responsibilities

Maintenance Reliability & Tool Room Leadership

• Lead maintenance and tool room activities supporting installation repair troubleshooting and planned maintenance of production equipment tooling and facility systems.
• Improve equipment reliability by reducing unplanned downtime eliminating recurring failures and driving structured root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Strengthen preventive and condition-based maintenance practices using CMMS data equipment history and reliability indicators.
• Oversee tool room workflow supporting molding and machining tooling repair modification fabrication and improvement work.
• Maintain readiness of tool room equipment including CNC equipment lathes mills grinders and EDM equipment; develop repair replacement and upgrade plans as needed.
• Coordinate priorities with operations engineering quality and production leadership to ensure work is completed safely effectively and with minimal disruption.

Facilities Utilities & Infrastructure

• Own the maintenance and improvement of facility systems including HVAC building envelope grounds power distribution lighting compressed air water and other plant infrastructure.
• Serve as a key site contact for public utilities service providers contractors and specialized repair vendors.
• Drive utility cost reduction and energy efficiency through sound operating practices consumption trend review and improvement projects.
• Ensure facility systems support a safe compliant and stable production environment.

Capital Projects Contractors & Asset Planning

• Manage capital projects from scope definition through installation commissioning and turnover to maintenance.
• Develop long-term plans for asset replacement obsolescence risk and maintenance investment based on business need reliability risk and lifecycle condition.
• Manage contractor and vendor relationships including janitorial grounds construction specialized maintenance and repair services.
• Ensure contractors follow site safety requirements permitting expectations insurance requirements and scope controls.
• Confirm that physical installations and modifications meet safety regulatory and internal standards.

Safety People Leadership & Continuous Improvement

• Build and maintain a strong safety culture across facilities maintenance and tool room areas.
• Ensure safe working conditions strong housekeeping and compliance with applicable safety procedures including LOTO arc flash and safety planning for non-standard work.
• Coach develop and engage associates to build technical skill ownership and accountability.
• Lead continuous improvement efforts that reduce waste improve response time increase equipment availability and improve shop-floor execution.
• Promote accurate work order documentation failure coding parts usage and maintenance history to support better decisions.
• Use available digital tools data and emerging technologies where practical to improve training documentation troubleshooting and reliability.

Key Measures of Success

• Safety performance hazard reduction and contractor compliance.
• Reduction in unplanned downtime and recurring equipment failures.
• Planned maintenance execution and schedule compliance.
• CMMS data quality work order discipline and maintenance history accuracy.
• Tool room responsiveness and capability.
• Utility cost and energy consumption improvement.
• Capital project delivery against scope cost schedule and performance expectations.
• Team capability engagement and associate development.

Qualifications :

• Bachelors degree preferred; equivalent technical and leadership experience will be considered.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in maintenance facilities tool room engineering or technical operations.
• At least 3 years of experience leading a technical support maintenance facilities or tool room team.
• Experience in a high-volume manufacturing environment strongly preferred.
• Strong technical troubleshooting capability across mechanical electrical hydraulic pneumatic and automated systems.
• Ability to read and interpret mechanical and electrical drawings.
• Working knowledge of PLC-controlled automated equipment.
• Experience with CMMS or maintenance management systems; SAP experience preferred.
• Strong project management skills including contractor coordination scope development scheduling and cost control.
• Ability to lead skilled trades technical associates contractors and cross-functional partners in a fast-paced production environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Willingness to adopt practical digital tools data-driven maintenance practices and emerging technologies that improve reliability documentation training or team effectiveness.

Preferred Experience

• Tool room machining molding robotics or high-volume automated manufacturing experience.
• Experience developing preventive predictive or condition-based maintenance programs.
• Experience with utility management energy reduction or facility infrastructure improvement.
• Experience using maintenance data equipment history or reliability metrics to improve uptime.
• Experience leading Kaizen root cause analysis or other structured continuous improvement efforts.

Additional Information :

Fortune Brands believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is Hiring Pay Range: $80000 USD - $126500 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range or be above or below the range based on factors including but not limited to education training experience professional achievement business need and addition to base salary employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance or a role-based sales incentive plan.

At Fortune Brands we support the overall health and wellness of our associates by offering comprehensive competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates unique needs. This includes robust health plans a market-leading 401(k) program with a company contribution product discounts flexible time off benefits adoption benefits and more. We offer numerous ERGs (Employee Resource Groups) to foster a sense of belonging for all associates.

Fortune Brands is built on industry-leading brands and innovation within the high-growth categories of water outdoors and security. The Company makes innovative products for residential and commercial environments with a growing focus on digital solutions and products that add luxury contribute to safety and enhance sustainability. To learn more visit our website at .

Equal Employment Opportunity

Fortune Brands is an equal opportunity employer. Fortune Brands evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex gender identity or expression national origin ancestry age disability/handicap status marital status protected veteran status sexual orientation genetic history or information or any other legally protected characteristic.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time