Director, Critical Facilities Engineering

Sandisk; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Sandisk in Milpitas, CA seeks a Global Critical Facilities Engineer to own reliability and performance of mission-critical systems, including power distribution, cooling, and life-safety. You will define global standards, oversee maintenance, RCA for outages, and partner with facilities leadership on a long-term capital plan.

You will lead a global team, oversee vendor partners, and ensure compliance with NEC, NFPA, OSHA.

Responsibilities

• Own reliability and performance of all mission-critical systems, including power distribution, substations, generators, UPS/CPS, cooling plants, process utilities, and life-safety systems.
• Establish and enforce global standards for redundancy, capacity management, maintenance, testing, and commissioning.
• Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and corrective actions for critical incidents, outages, or near-miss events.
• Define and maintain global Critical Facilities, Engineering standards, design guidelines, and operating procedures.
• Own the critical facilities risk register, including single points of failure, deferred maintenance risk, and capacity constraints.
• Ensure compliance with applicable codes and standards (NEC, NFPA, ASHRAE, OSHA, local AHJs, and internal governance).
• Provide technical governance and performance oversight of IFM partners delivering critical facilities operations and maintenance.
• Define SLAs, KPIs, and audit mechanisms for preventive maintenance, emergency response, and system availability.
• Act as escalation authority for high-risk operational decisions affecting uptime or safety.
• Own the long-term capital roadmap for critical infrastructure upgrades, renewals, and expansions.
• Partner with Finance and Facilities Leadership on CapEx prioritization, business cases, and risk-based investment decisions.
• Ensure assets are managed through full lifecycle planning, including end-of-life strategies and redundancy planning.
• Provide engineering leadership for new builds, expansions, major retrofits, and capacity upgrades affecting critical systems.
• Ensure rigorous design review, FAT/SAT, integrated systems testing (IST), and commissioning before turnover.
• Approve deviations from standards based on documented risk assessments.
• Partner with CREW and site leadership to ensure BCP, ERP, and emergency power strategies are robust and tested.
• Lead readiness for utility failures, extreme weather events, and regional disruptions impacting critical infrastructure.
• Lead and develop a global Critical Facilities Engineering function (directs and/or matrixed).
• Establish training, certification, and succession planning for critical facilities expertise.
• Serve as the internal subject‑matter authority for critical infrastructure decisions.

Job description

Sandisk understands how people and businesses consume data and we relentlessly innovate to deliver solutions that enable today’s needs and tomorrow’s next big ideas. With a rich history of groundbreaking innovations in Flash and advanced memory technologies, our solutions have become the beating heart of the digital world we’re living in and that we have the power to shape.

Sandisk meets people and businesses at the intersection of their aspirations and the moment, enabling them to keep moving and pushing possibility forward. We do this through the balance of our powerhouse manufacturing capabilities and our industry-leading portfolio of products that are recognized globally for innovation, performance and quality.

Sandisk has two facilities recognized by the World Economic Forum as part of the Global Lighthouse Network for advanced 4IR innovations. These facilities were also recognized as Sustainability Lighthouses for breakthroughs in efficient operations. With our global reach, we ensure the global supply chain has access to the Flash memory it needs to keep our world moving forward.

Description

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Critical Infrastructure Reliability & Uptime

• Own reliability and performance of all mission‑critical systems, including power distribution, substations, generators, UPS/CPS, cooling plants, process utilities, and life‑safety systems.
• Establish and enforce global standards for redundancy, capacity management, maintenance, testing, and commissioning.
• Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and corrective actions for critical incidents, outages, or near‑miss events.

Governance, Standards & Risk Management

• Define and maintain global Critical Facilities, Engineering standards, design guidelines, and operating procedures.
• Own the critical facilities risk register, including single points of failure, deferred maintenance risk, and capacity constraints.
• Ensure compliance with applicable codes and standards (NEC, NFPA, ASHRAE, OSHA, local AHJs, and internal governance). Operations & IFM Oversight
• Provide technical governance and performance oversight of IFM partners delivering critical facilities operations and maintenance.
• Define SLAs, KPIs, and audit mechanisms for preventive maintenance, emergency response, and system availability.
• Act as escalation authority for high‑risk operational decisions affecting uptime or safety.

Capital Planning & Lifecycle Management

• Own the long‑term capital roadmap for critical infrastructure upgrades, renewals, and expansions.
• Partner with Finance and Facilities Leadership on CapEx prioritization, business cases, and risk‑based investment decisions.
• Ensure assets are managed through full lifecycle planning, including end‑of‑life strategies and redundancy planning.

Projects, Expansion & Commissioning

• Provide engineering leadership for new builds, expansions, major retrofits, and capacity upgrades affecting critical systems.
• Ensure rigorous design review, FAT/SAT, integrated systems testing (IST), and commissioning before turnover.
• Approve deviations from standards based on documented risk assessments.

Business Continuity & Emergency Preparedness

• Partner with CREW and site leadership to ensure BCP, ERP, and emergency power strategies are robust and tested.
• Lead readiness for utility failures, extreme weather events, and regional disruptions impacting critical infrastructure.

Team Leadership & Capability Building

• Lead and develop a global Critical Facilities Engineering function (directs and/or matrixed).
• Establish training, certification, and succession planning for critical facilities expertise.
• Serve as the internal subject‑matter authority for critical infrastructure decisions.

Additional Information

Sandisk is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender‑related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non‑discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law poster.

Sandisk thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.

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