Director, Global Facilities

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Kraken Robotics is currently seeking a Director, Global Facilities to join our team. This position is Remote.

Reporting to the Chief Information Officer, the Director, Global Facilities is responsible for the strategic planning, operation, governance, and continuous improvement of Kraken's global facilities portfolio. The role ensures that offices, manufacturing environments, warehouses, and other operational sites support business growth, operational execution, production readiness, customer commitments, and long-term organizational objectives.

The Director, Global Facilities is accountable for facility management, capital project delivery, site readiness, real estate planning, and facilities governance across the organization. The role works closely with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, Legal, Information Security, Information Technology, People & Culture, and Business Units to ensure facilities are safe, compliant, cost-effective, scalable, and aligned with business priorities. This role also supports mergers, acquisitions, and integration activities by ensuring facilities are appropriately assessed, integrated, optimized, and governed.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Facilities Strategy & Portfolio Management

- Develop and execute a multi-year global facilities strategy aligned with business growth, manufacturing capacity requirements, capital plans, and acquisition activity.

- Establish and maintain a comprehensive view of the organization's global facilities portfolio, including offices, manufacturing sites, warehouses, and other operational facilities.

- Assess current and future facility requirements and provide recommendations regarding expansions, consolidations, relocations, acquisitions, disposals, and facility investments.

- Lead long-term facility footprint planning, capacity planning, and utilization analysis.

- Establish and maintain facilities governance, standards, policies, and operating practices across the organization.

- Support facility-related due diligence, planning, and integration activities associated with acquisitions and divestitures.

Facility Management & Operational Readiness

- Ensure all facilities are safe, reliable, properly maintained, and capable of supporting business requirements.

- Oversee maintenance programs, building systems, utilities, infrastructure, and facility services.

- Establish preventative maintenance programs, facility service standards, and facility performance metrics.

- Partner with Business Units, Engineering, and Supply Chain leaders to ensure facilities support manufacturing, testing, service delivery, and customer commitments.

- Ensure facility readiness for new manufacturing programs, product introductions, laboratory requirements, testing environments, and capacity expansions.

- Identify facility constraints, risks, and dependencies that may impact execution, production capacity, or customer commitments.

- Drive facility improvements that enhance productivity, throughput, utilization, and employee experience.

- Oversee the organization's global fleet management program, including company-owned vehicles, related policies, maintenance programs, replacement planning, and utilization management.

Capital Project Delivery

- Own the delivery of facility and infrastructure capital projects across the organization.

- Establish project planning, budgeting, governance, reporting, and execution practices for facilities related capital investments.

- Lead facility expansions, renovations, infrastructure upgrades, equipment installations, relocations, and site modernization initiatives.

- Ensure capital proje