Enterprise Facilities Operations and Maintenance Lead

Description

SAIC is seeking an Enterprise Facilities Operations and Maintenance Lead to provide strategic, operational, and technical oversight of a team of facility engineering professionals as well as the Government customer. This role ensures a common operating picture for enterprise-wide facilities, operational continuity, anomaly reporting fidelity, and executive-level communication for facilities across a globally distributed environment.

The role oversees all reporting, interface coordination, and mission-impact assessments related to facilities operations and maintenance. This role maintains strong relationships with government facilities management organizations and Headquarters leadership to ensure facility conditions, disruptions, risks, and mission impacts are clearly understood, escalated, and resolved.

This position is located in Chantilly, VA and requires an active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.

Job responsibilities include:

• Lead the enterprise operations and management team.

• Supervise and mentor Facilities Engineers providing technical guidance, workload prioritization, feedback, and professional development.

• Drive continuous improvement in reporting quality, engineering methodologies, communication frameworks, and mission support practices.

• Provide senior-level situational awareness to executive leadership regarding facility anomalies, outages, operational changes, and mission impacts.

• Oversee validation of facility reports for accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and operational relevance.

• Establish and enforce rigorous processes for anomaly tracking, data verification, question resolution, and closure documentation.

• Ensure facility changes—both planned and unplanned—are properly assessed for mission impact and communicated to senior government decision makers.

• Direct the creation of innovative visualizations of facility infrastructure and operational changes, enabling effective executive briefing and rapid decision support.

• Serve as the senior liaison between on-site government facilities organizations, O&M contractors, and Headquarters leadership.

• Cultivate strong working relationships with government partners at multiple levels, ensuring alignment on priorities, reporting workflows, issue escalation, and mitigation strategies.

• Guide the development and maintenance of facility operations plans, recapitalization strategies, requirements documentation, and other enterprise-level engineering deliverables.

• Maintain oversight of deferred maintenance monitoring, outage reporting, and infrastructure performance baselining, as performed within engineering roles across operations.

• Participation in and planning of facility related exercises.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI Clearance with Polygraph is required to be considered.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Architecture, or related discipline

• Additional relevant experience may substitute for degree

• 14+ years of experience in facility engineering, facility operations, or facilities program management, including leadership of engineering teams

• Expertise in O&M activities, engineering systems, facility reliability assessments, and mission-critical infrastructure

• Demonstrated ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams and manage complex, time-sensitive operational environments

• Exceptional executive-level communication skills, including briefing senior government officials

Desired Qualifications

• Experience leading data center or other high-reliability, mission-critical facility environments

• Credentialed technical certifications (CFM, PMP, PE, or equivalent)

• Experience supporting Intelligence Community facilities or geographically dispersed enterprise facility programs

Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

REQNUMBER: 2617350

SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability