Senior Manager Facilities Operations US
Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.
Funding history
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About Shield AI
Founded in 2015, Shield AI builds Hivemind autonomy software and V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft for operations in contested, GPS- and communications-denied environments. Its current site also presents Aechelon synthetic-reality simulation and Vision Systems detection and tracking products.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead U.S. facilities operations across regional sites, maintaining reliability, maintenance, budgets, vendors, risks, and service levels. You will build operating standards, manage facilities personnel and providers, support site turnover, and coordinate emergency, continuity, security, and environmental readiness.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in facilities management, engineering, operations, construction, business, or a related field
- 12+ years of progressive facilities, integrated facilities management, corporate real estate operations, engineering operations, or comparable experience
- 5+ years leading complex multi-site or regional operations
- Experience leading people and outsourced service providers
- Experience operating technically complex facilities
- Experience owning budgets, forecasts, contracts, vendor performance, service levels, and facility risk
- Knowledge of maintenance, building systems, preventive maintenance, work-order management, asset lifecycle, and incident response
- Ability to build teams and standardize geographically dispersed operations
- Ability to travel frequently across the United States
Responsibilities
- Lead day-to-day and lifecycle performance across U.S. facilities
- Establish a regional operating model and site accountability
- Develop site operating plans, staffing approaches, and service models
- Manage facility reliability, workplace service, vendor, and continuity escalations
- Establish asset registers, preventive maintenance, and work-order practices
- Manage critical spares and lifecycle risks
- Lead facilities personnel and manage service providers
- Own operating-plan inputs, budgets, forecasts, and variance explanations
- Maintain risk registers, vendor-performance views, and action plans
- Support site selection, design reviews, commissioning, and move planning
- Accept or reject project turnover and lead post-occupancy stabilization
- Coordinate emergency and continuity readiness with EH&S and Security
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity