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Facilities Manager at Skydio | LAYIQ

Facility Operations & Reliability
Own day-to-day operation and maintenance of the manufacturing facility and associated infrastructure.
Maintain critical building systems including HVAC, electrical distribution, compressed air, plumbing, fire/life-safety systems, lighting, backup power, and other facility utilities.
Develop and manage preventive and predictive maintenance programs to improve facility reliability and minimize production disruptions.
Respond to facility-related outages and emergencies, coordinate troubleshooting, and drive issues through permanent corrective action.
Establish facility KPIs for uptime, preventive maintenance completion, work-order response, utility consumption, and other key performance indicators.
Maintain accurate facility documentation, equipment records, maintenance histories, drawings, and operating procedures.
Manufacturing Support
Partner with Manufacturing and Engineering teams to support production equipment installations, line expansions, process changes, and facility modifications.
Ensure facility utilities and infrastructure have adequate capacity and reliability to support current and future manufacturing requirements.
Coordinate equipment moves, utility connections, construction activities, shutdowns, and commissioning while minimizing impact to production.
Support clean, organized, safe, and production-ready manufacturing environments.
Identify infrastructure risks and develop mitigation and redundancy plans for systems critical to manufacturing operations.
Own day-to-day facility waste-management operations and vendor relationships, including general waste, recycling, scrap metal, e-waste, battery recycling, and other facility waste streams.
EHS & Compliance
Partner closely with Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) to maintain compliance with applicable federal, state, and local requirements.
Support programs related to fire/life safety, hazardous materials, emergency response, environmental controls, and workplace safety.
Own operation, preventive maintenance, inspection, and repair of facility environmental-control infrastructure, including applicable stormwater controls, wastewater infrastructure, oil/water controls, backflow-prevention devices, secondary containment, ventilation/exhaust systems, and other building environmental systems.
Promptly escalate failures or abnormal conditions that may create an environmental compliance risk to EHS.
Ensure contractors follow site safety requirements, permitting processes, lockout/tagout requirements, and other applicable procedures.
Support internal and external audits, inspections, corrective actions, and documentation requirements.
Maintain readiness for facility-related regulatory and customer inspections.
Projects & Capital Improvements
Plan and execute facility upgrades, renovations, infrastructure expansions, and capital projects.
Develop scopes of work, project schedules, budgets, and implementation plans.
Coordinate architects, engineers, general contractors, specialty contractors, equipment vendors, and internal stakeholders.
Review drawings and technical proposals to ensure projects meet operational, safety, quality, and future-capacity requirements.
Manage project execution from concept through construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.
Own Waste Data Collection: Collect, maintain, validate, and report facility waste and diversion metrics required to support EHS/ESG reporting, including general waste, recycling, scrap metal, e-waste, and battery recycling. Coordinate with waste vendors to obtain weight/volume data, manifests, recycling certificates, and other supporting documentation; maintain auditable records; track trends and diversion rates; and provide accurate, timely data to EHS for environmental compliance, sustainability metrics, and ESG reporting data collection.
Vendor & Contractor Management
Select, manage, and evaluate facility service providers and contractors.
Develop scopes of work, obtain competitive proposals, negotiate service agreements, and monitor vendor performance.
Ensure vendors meet company expectations for safety, quality, responsiveness, cost, and documentation.
Maintain appropriate service contracts for critical facility systems.
Budget & Planning
Develop and manage annual facility operating and capital budgets.
Track expenditures and identify opportunities to reduce operating costs without compromising safety, reliability, or production capability.
Develop short- and long-term facility plans based on manufacturing growth, equipment requirements, headcount, and infrastructure capacity.
Identify lifecycle replacement requirements for major facility assets and incorporate them into capital planning.
Emergency & Business Continuity
Support facility emergency preparedness and business continuity planning.
Develop response procedures for power outages, HVAC failures, water events, fire/life-safety incidents, utility interruptions, and other facility emergencies.
Participate in incident response and root-cause investigations for facility-related events.
Establish escalation processes and appropriate after-hours coverage for critical facility issues.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Facilities Management, Engineering, Construction Management, or a related technical field, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
7+ years of facilities, plant engineering, construction, or building operations experience, preferably within aerospace, defense, automotive, electronics, advanced manufacturing, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment.
3+ years of experience leading facility operations, projects, vendors, or technical teams.
Strong working knowledge of industrial HVAC, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, compressed air, fire/life-safety, and building automation systems.
Experience supporting active manufacturing operations where facility downtime can directly affect production.
Experience developing and managing preventive maintenance programs and CMMS/work-order systems.
Demonstrated ability to manage contractors and execute facility construction and infrastructure projects.
Working knowledge of OSHA requirements and applicable building, fire, electrical, mechanical, and environmental codes.
Strong troubleshooting, organizational, project-management, and communication skills.
Ability to manage multiple priorities and respond effectively to urgent operational issues.

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