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CesiumAstro is seeking a Vice President of Global Facilities to lead the strategic planning, development, and management of the company's worldwide real estate portfolio and facilities operations. This is a senior leadership role reporting to executive leadership, responsible for aligning facilities strategy with business growth, manufacturing capacity, and long-term company objectives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute a comprehensive global facilities and real estate strategy, including leased and owned properties across multiple geographies.
- Own strategic planning for facility capacity, expansion, consolidation, relocation, acquisition, and disposition decisions.
- Lead site selection, evaluation, and due diligence for new domestic and international locations, establishing criteria based on business requirements, workforce availability, infrastructure, cost, security, and regulatory factors.
- Lead or support negotiations for complex commercial leases, renewals, expansions, property purchases, land acquisitions, and other real estate transactions; partner with Legal and Finance on deal structuring and risk management.
- Manage relationships with brokers, landlords, developers, municipalities, and economic development organizations.
- Oversee operation, maintenance, safety, and functionality of all company facilities; establish global standards for preventive maintenance, building systems, utilities, and emergency response.
- Supervise property managers, contractors, maintenance providers, and facilities vendors.
- Ensure compliance with building, environmental, safety, security, and regulatory requirements.
- Lead strategic planning and execution of major facility expansions, renovations, relocations, and infrastructure improvements; oversee projects from concept through commissioning and occupancy, ensuring delivery within scope, schedule, quality, and budget.
- Develop and manage global facilities and real estate operating and capital budgets; partner with Finance on long-range capital planning and financial modeling.
- Monitor leases, contracts, renewal dates, financial obligations, and facility utilization; evaluate lease-versus-own and expansion-versus-relocation alternatives.
- Build and lead a scalable global facilities organization appropriate for company growth.
- Establish policies, governance, processes, and performance metrics for global facilities management.
- Partner across Finance, Legal, HR, EHS, Security, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Operations to ensure facilities support business priorities.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Real Estate, Facilities Management, Construction Management, Engineering, Finance, or related field.
- 20+ years of progressively responsible experience in corporate real estate, facilities, property management, construction, or related disciplines.
- Significant experience managing geographically dispersed facilities and real estate portfolios.
- Demonstrated experience negotiating complex commercial leases and real estate agreements.
- Experience with property acquisition, land transactions, site selection, facility development, or major capital projects.
- Experience building or scaling facilities organizations in a high-growth environment.
- Experience supporting manufacturing, aerospace, engineering, technology, or other technically complex environments strongly preferred.
- International facilities and real estate experience preferred.
- Proficiency with Microsoft 365 suite, ERP and financial systems, facilities/CMMS platforms, lease and real estate management systems, contract management systems, building/property management systems, and financial modeling and budgeting applications.
- Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, conditional resident, asylee, or refugee, or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State (government space technology export regulations compliance).
