Director, Global Facilities

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop and implement a multi-year global facilities strategy that aligns with business growth, manufacturing capacity needs, capital plans, and acquisition activities.

• Establish and maintain a thorough overview of Kraken's global facilities portfolio, which includes offices, manufacturing locations, warehouses, and other operational sites.

• Evaluate facility requirements and suggest expansions, consolidations, relocations, acquisitions, disposals, and investment opportunities.

• Lead planning for facility footprint, capacity, utilization analysis, and governance of facilities.

• Support facility-related due diligence, planning, and integration efforts for acquisitions and divestitures.

• Ensure facilities are safe, dependable, well-maintained, and capable of meeting business needs.

• Oversee maintenance programs, building systems, utilities, infrastructure, facility services, and global fleet management.

• Ensure facility readiness for manufacturing programs, product launches, laboratories, testing environments, and capacity expansions.

• Identify facility constraints, risks, and dependencies that may impact execution, production capacity, or customer commitments.

• Drive facility enhancements that improve productivity, throughput, utilization, and employee experience.

• Manage the delivery of facility and infrastructure capital projects, including expansions, renovations, upgrades, installations, relocations, and modernization efforts.

• Establish practices for project planning, budgeting, governance, reporting, and execution.

• Oversee global real estate and lease portfolio management, including leasing strategies, negotiations, renewals, amendments, expansions, acquisitions, and exits.

• Ensure adherence to regulatory, environmental, building, occupancy, and operational standards.

• Support physical security, workplace health and safety, emergency preparedness, business continuity, disaster recovery, and site resilience.

• Build, lead, and develop the Global Facilities function.

• Provide executive-level reporting on facility performance, portfolio risks, capital projects, lease obligations, capacity, and investment priorities.

• Serve as the senior subject matter expert in facilities strategy, governance, capital project delivery, and operational readiness.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of progressive leadership experience in facilities, operations, manufacturing infrastructure, capital projects, or related fields.

• Demonstrated experience managing industrial, manufacturing, engineering, laboratory, warehouse, or technical facilities across various sites and jurisdictions.

• Proven track record of leading capital projects, facility expansions, upgrades, relocations, consolidations, or infrastructure modernization efforts.

• Experience working within complex manufacturing, defense, marine technology, aerospace, robotics, or industrial settings.

• Proven capability to build and manage budgets, business cases, capital plans, and long-term facility strategies.

• Experience in leading cross-functional teams and influencing stakeholders without direct authority.

• Strong understanding of facility operations, maintenance management, business continuity, operational readiness, and risk management.

• Demonstrated ability to align facilities investments and operations with strategic business goals.

• Excellent communication, leadership, and executive presentation skills.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Facilities Management, Construction Management, Business, Operations, or a related discipline.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Retirement plan with company matching contributions.

• Professional development opportunities and continuous learning.

• Flexible work arrangements and a supportive work environment.