Vice President Of Facilities Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, architecture, facilities management, construction management, planning, business, public administration, or a related field, or equivalent experience. Equivalent education and/or experience may substitute for minimum qualifications except where legal requirements apply.
• At least 10 years of progressively responsible leadership experience in facilities operations, capital development, infrastructure, construction, or a related field within a large and complex organization.
• Senior leadership experience spanning day-to-day facilities operations and capital project or asset renewal delivery.
• Significant experience leading large multidisciplinary organizations and senior leadership teams.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex operating and capital budgets.
• Experience overseeing major physical assets, infrastructure, building operations, construction, or capital programs.
• Ability to translate strategy into operational priorities, service expectations, performance measures, and measurable results.
• Experience leading significant organizational or operational change while maintaining service continuity.
• Ability to work effectively across organizational boundaries where responsibility and authority are distributed.
• Strong communication skills and experience advising senior executives on complex operational, financial, capital, and strategic issues.
• Experience developing productive relationships with employees, customers, institutional leaders, and other stakeholders.
• Demonstrated commitment to responsible stewardship of organizational, financial, and physical resources.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in engineering, architecture, planning, facilities management, construction management, business, public administration, or a related field.
• Senior facilities leadership experience within a research university, academic medical center, government organization, or comparably complex institution.
• Experience overseeing a heterogeneous physical environment, including research, instructional, and highly specialized facilities.
• Experience in a unionized environment.
• Experience implementing enterprise asset-management, work-management, or other data-driven operational management systems.
• Demonstrated leadership in sustainability, energy management, resilience, or carbon-reduction initiatives.
• Experience improving customer service and operational performance within a large internal-service organization.
• Experience presenting major facilities, infrastructure, or capital matters to a governing board.

Responsibilities

• Lead reliable, safe, efficient, customer-focused delivery of facilities services, including building operations and maintenance, utilities and infrastructure, custodial and grounds services, transportation, and other assigned functions.
• Establish service expectations, operating standards, and performance measures for a large, distributed service organization.
• Maintain effective 24/7 operational readiness and ensure strong responses to facilities incidents, infrastructure failures, and other events that threaten continuity of University operations.
• Use data to assess demand, cost, asset condition, productivity, service quality, and customer experience; prioritize work where resources are constrained.
• Simplify processes, reduce duplication, improve workflows, and embed continuous improvement in daily operations and leadership practice.
• Translate University priorities into Facilities operating plans, renewal strategies, implementation approaches, and resource requirements; advise the President and senior leaders on facilities condition, infrastructure risk, operational priorities, service performance, and investment considerations.
• Partner with FPB and other institutional leaders on capital and portfolio planning, bringing Facilities expertise to decisions about asset condition, infrastructure need, feasibility, lifecycle implications, and project delivery.
• Ensure Facilities plans and operations support academic, research, clinical, and administrative priorities; build partnerships with UW Bothell, UW Tacoma, UW Medicine, and other institutional partners.
• Provide executive leadership for converting capital priorities into executable programs and projects; lead planning, design, construction, and delivery of capital projects and major renovations within the Facilities portfolio.
• Manage project scope, budget, schedule, design quality, sustainability, stakeholder engagement, and risk; establish milestones and escalation paths, reduce unnecessary delays, and hold leaders accountable for delivery commitments.
• Integrate capital delivery with maintenance, renewal, and operations to improve long-term asset performance and reliability; report on project execution, delivery risk, and major capital work to University leadership and the Board of Regents as appropriate.
• Steward Facilities operating, capital, self-sustaining, and recharge resources through an integrated multiyear financial strategy; explain cost drivers, funding restrictions, financial risks, and the consequences of underinvestment.
• Develop investment cases connecting facilities needs to institutional outcomes; evaluate funding, financing, partnership, and service-delivery approaches, including possible public-private partnerships, with attention to affordability, lifecycle cost, and risk.
• Strengthen financial planning, forecasting, transparency, and accountability; align Facilities financial practices with University budgeting, capital planning, and administrative structures, and promote sustainable service delivery and resource allocation.
• Lead and develop the Facilities senior leadership team, establish organizational accountability, and foster a culture of service, respect, collaboration, and operational discipline.
• Partner with UWHR as Facilities transitions from its own HR infrastructure to the University’s integrated HR model; build leadership capability and succession pipelines and develop productive relationships with labor partners in collaboration with UWHR.
• Engage proactively with campus leaders, develop shared priorities and clear service and project commitments, resolve concerns across organizational boundaries, and ensure timely answers and follow-through.
• Use structured campus feedback to improve services and evaluate leadership performance; represent UW Facilities in University governance and institutional capital and portfolio discussions.
• Maintain close partnerships with FPB and develop operating relationships with leaders in Human Resources, Information Technology, Environmental Health & Safety, UW Medicine, research administration, emergency preparedness, sustainability, and other enterprise functions.
• Communicate facilities services, priorities, tradeoffs, performance, and risks to University leaders and stakeholders; represent Facilities before the Board of Regents and external agencies when appropriate.

Benefits

• Benefits are offered; details are available through the University of Washington staff benefits information page.