Director, FM Orthopedics

Role Overview

• Champion the delivery of standardized, high-quality FM hard and soft services across Orthopaedics sites, ensuring global consistency through collaboration with regional and global peers.
• Drive integration and alignment across global functions, regional FM roles, and outsourced providers to enable seamless service delivery and strategic execution.
• Cultivate and sustain strategic partnerships between FM and Orthopaedics leadership to align facilities strategy with business objectives and operational priorities that align to the business needs today and into the future.
• Own vendor relationships, ensuring performance, issue resolution, and alignment with Orthopedics' site needs.
• Act as the senior escalation point for FM hard and soft services, standards, programs, and processes, ensuring resolution and continuous improvement across Orthopaedics sites.
• Lead, develop, and empower Facility Leads, fostering a high-performance culture and ensuring operational excellence across all Orthopaedics locations.
• Ensure robust business continuity and infrastructure management programs are in place, tested, and aligned with enterprise risk frameworks.
• Provide strategic FM input into capital and operational projects, serving as the escalation point to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and site needs.
• Chair and contribute to governance and customer forums, representing FM interests and driving strategic alignment across stakeholders.
• Ensure regulatory compliance across all Orthopaedics sites, proactively managing risk and maintaining audit readiness.
• Lead the deployment of FM and E&PS strategies, translating global initiatives into actionable regional plans with measurable outcomes.
• Own the integrity of Orthopaedics FM data, ensuring accuracy to support global performance metrics, reporting, and strategic decision-making.
• Champion and deliver FM Global and E&PS strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment with Orthopaedics operational goals and long-term vision.
• Monitor and enforce compliance with mandatory training requirements, ensuring workforce readiness and regulatory adherence.
• Ensure accountability for accurate occupancy, utilization, and spatial data, enabling strategic space planning and optimization.
• Provide fiduciary oversight of operating and capital budgets, ensuring financial stewardship and performance accountability.
• Lead and support Crisis Management Team (CMT) operations for Advanced Therapies & Deliver, ensuring structured decision-making, real-time information gathering, and timely updates to Regional and Global leadership to maintain operational continuity.
• Act as a strategic advisor in regional escalation protocols, participate in Local CMTs, and collaborate with Regional SMEs to address critical issues effectively, driving continuous improvement through After-Action Reviews and cross-functional collaboration to enhance crisis response and readiness.

Requirements

• A minimum of ten to twelve (10-12) years of related work experience.
• Strong proven experience in facilities and/or supply chain engineering & maintenance function.
• Strong management and technical skills.
• Experience related to risk management, quality, safety, and compliance.
• Knowledge of business strategy and projected business unit requirements for the workplace, infrastructure, real property, and facilities, including impact on the portfolio plan.
• Ability to make decisions across business units with authority.
• Experience working with and socializing strategies within a complex regionally driven organization.
• Experience leading a facilities function at multinational enterprise in a manufacturing site or experience as General Manager of a manufacturing site or experience as engineering lead of a manufacturing site.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible work hours
• Paid time off
• Remote work options