Director, Global Facilities
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Director leading Kraken Robotics' global facilities strategy across offices, manufacturing sites, and warehouses. Overseeing capital projects, real estate, operational readiness, compliance, and global fleet management.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute a multi-year global facilities strategy aligned with business growth, manufacturing capacity requirements, capital plans, and acquisition activity
- Establish and maintain a comprehensive view of Kraken's global facilities portfolio, including offices, manufacturing sites, warehouses, and other operational facilities
- Assess facility requirements and recommend expansions, consolidations, relocations, acquisitions, disposals, and investments
- Lead facility footprint planning, capacity planning, utilization analysis, and facilities governance
- Support facility-related due diligence, planning, and integration activities for acquisitions and divestitures
- Ensure facilities are safe, reliable, properly maintained, and capable of supporting business requirements
- Oversee maintenance programs, building systems, utilities, infrastructure, facility services, and global fleet management
- Ensure facility readiness for manufacturing programs, product introductions, laboratories, testing environments, and capacity expansions
- Identify facility constraints, risks, and dependencies affecting execution, production capacity, or customer commitments
- Drive facility improvements that enhance productivity, throughput, utilization, and employee experience
- Own delivery of facility and infrastructure capital projects, including expansions, renovations, upgrades, installations, relocations, and modernization
- Establish project planning, budgeting, governance, reporting, and execution practices
- Oversee global real estate and lease portfolio, including leasing strategies, negotiations, renewals, amendments, expansions, acquisitions, and exits
- Ensure compliance with regulatory, environmental, building, occupancy, and operational requirements
- 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 reporting on facility performance, portfolio risks, capital projects, lease obligations, capacity, and investment priorities
- Act as the senior subject matter expert for facilities strategy, governance, capital project delivery, and operational readiness
Requirements:
- 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in facilities, operations, manufacturing infrastructure, capital projects, or related functions
- Proven experience managing industrial, manufacturing, engineering, laboratory, warehouse, or technical facilities environments across multiple sites and jurisdictions
- Demonstrated experience leading capital projects, facility expansions, upgrades, relocations, consolidations, or infrastructure modernization initiatives
- Experience operating within complex manufacturing, defense, marine technology, aerospace, robotics, or industrial environments
- Proven ability to build and manage budgets, business cases, capital plans, and long-term facility strategies
- Experience 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 objectives
- Strong communication, leadership, and executive presentation skills
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Facilities Management, Construction Management, Business, Operations, or a related discipline
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