Facilities Management Subject Matter Expert (SME)

M Powered Strategies • Milwaukee, WI

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

M Powered Strategies (MPS) is seeking a senior Facilities Management leader to serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in support of a public-sector organizational redesign engagement. The SME will provide operational insight, peer benchmarking perspective, and structural feasibility testing to support a facilitated assessment and future-state organizational design process for a county Facilities Management Division. This is not an operational leadership role. The SME will not manage facilities or staff directly. Instead, they will serve in a part-time advisory capacity alongside a facilitation team, contributing senior-level facilities expertise throughout the project lifecycle. The engagement focuses on modernizing Operations & Maintenance (O&M) structure within a complex public-sector facilities portfolio that includes justice/public safety facilities, health and human services buildings, and other 24/7 operations. The project will assess current maturity, develop future-state organizational options, and produce a sequenced implementation roadmap. The SME will participate in structured workshops and advisory sessions to ensure recommendations are operationally grounded and feasible within real-world public-sector constraints.

Requirements

• Practical, experience-based judgment
• Ability to articulate trade-offs clearly
• Comfort advising without operational authority
• Willingness to engage collaboratively in a facilitation-led process
• Interest in short-term, strategic advisory work

Nice To Haves

• Director / Assistant Director of Facilities Operations & Maintenance Manager
• Asset / Facilities Operations Manager
• Strong preference for experience in County or municipal government
• Higher education
• Large healthcare systems
• Justice/public safety portfolios
• 24/7 operational environments
• Experience with Civil service and/or unionized workforces
• CMMS and asset management systems
• Preventive maintenance program development
• Organizational change and structural redesign

Responsibilities

• Participate in biweekly virtual Steering Team sessions (2 hours each)
• Participate in two half-day design workshops (in-person preferred)
• Provide operational perspective on preventive vs. reactive maintenance maturity
• Pressure-test proposed supervisory models and trade structures
• Advise on centralized vs. decentralized organizational models
• Identify implementation risks and transitional strain points
• Provide peer benchmarking insight from comparable public-sector or complex institutional portfolios
• Distinguish structural issues from process or staffing challenges
• Review draft findings and provide advisory feedback on operational realism

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed