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Are you a visionary leader with a passion for transforming facilities operations to support cutting-edge science and patient care? Join Roche Diagnostics as the Director of Facilities & Engineering for our Bay Area sites, where you'll take charge of shaping the strategic direction and operational excellence of our Pleasanton and Santa Clara campuses. This pivotal role offers the opportunity to oversee large-scale capital projects, optimize site master plans, and drive continuous improvements in reliability, safety, and efficiency. As a key member of the Site Leadership Team, you will inspire and develop a high-performing team, foster a culture of innovation, and ensure our facilities meet the highest standards of compliance and performance-empowering Roche's mission to deliver extraordinary outcomes for patients around the world.

This role is responsible for the strategic leadership of all Facilities & Engineering initiatives across the Bay Area sites (Pleasanton and Santa Clara). This includes directing operations and maintenance, campus master planning, capital investment strategies and execution, asset lifecycle management, and reliability engineering. The Director is ultimately accountable for ensuring facilities operations are compliant, reliable, fiscally responsible and directly support the organization's overarching business objectives. This leader inspires and empowers a culture of operational excellence where every employee can achieve extraordinary outcomes for customers and patients every day.

The Opportunity

Responsibilities

• Oversees the curation and management of the Facilities CAPEX portfolio for Roche Diagnostics Sites in the Bay Area. Directs all facility related capital projects in support of the Facility Master Plan. Capital projects range from 100,000 USD to 100,000,000 USD with the following responsibilities: project scope, cost and schedule development, funding documentation development and presentation to senior management, construction, move coordination and project close-out. May direct capital project planning and execution for sites outside the Bay Area based on need and available resources.

• Develops and executes annual and long range strategic Facility Master Plans based on Site Business Plans. Plan development and execution requires interaction across all functional areas of the business and senior management, with strong negotiation skills to solve complex problems affecting nearly all employees at Roche sites.

• Direct facility operations and maintenance programs performance measurement, service provider management, and resource planning as well as developing, sharing and adopting technical innovations, life cycle costing models, best practices, KPIs and benchmarking information with the global Facilities community.

• Direct engineering services which include life cycle costing, energy conservation, asset management, reliability engineering, performance measurement and resource planning.

• Directs and leads efforts to ensure engineering-related policies, procedures, and practices are effective, efficient and consistent. Provides regular, consistent updates on facilities and engineering matters to support ongoing awareness and continuity of business operations.

• Interacts at a high level with internal and external resources to ensure the Company is in compliance with local, state, federal, and corporate regulations as well as internal Quality System and regulatory compliance programs.

• Develops and is accountable for department and capital budgets, and manages budgets by identifying cost reduction or savings opportunities. Directs budget formulation and adjustment to ensure transparency. Partners closely with other groups and functions to ensure user requests are met in a timely and cost effective manner, maximizing business value of each project and the entire portfolio.

• As a member of the Bay Area Site Operations Leadership Team, translates and directs organizational strategy into business goals to lead a customer focused, high performing Facilities & Engineering function. Acts as a leader in the broader Roche Diagnostics Global Sites network, sharing Engineering expertise and guidance with other teams and sites.

• Develops leaders throughout the organization and assures the development of all individuals within the organization. This leader serves through transformational leadership roles of Visionary, Architect, Coach and Catalyst (VACC).

• Uses analytical tools, strong business relationships, and industry data to anticipate and plan for engineering services and capital investments for the sites.

• Other duties as assigned by management.

Who You Are

Requirements:

• 12+ years facilities/plant management experience, preferably in a diagnostic, pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry with 7 years of progressive management/leadership experience.

• Bachelor's Degree in engineering, architecture, science, technology or related field, or equivalent combination of education and work related experience (>12 years).

• Capital Project management experience and/or Plant Engineering, preferably in a diagnostic, pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry

• Preferred Skills:

  • Master's Degree in engineering, architecture, or Facilities Mgt.

  • International Facility Management Association (IFMA) Certified Facility Manager (CFM).

This position is not eligible for relocation.

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of California is $180,000 - $334,200 USD Annual. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance. This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.

Benefits

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100'000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let's build a healthier future, together.

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