Head of Real Estate, Facilities & Workplace Experience

First Command; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

First Command seeks a Director, Real Estate & Facilities to lead our real estate portfolio, corporate campus, and facilities operations. This role partners with senior leadership to align space strategy with business goals and employee experience.

You will drive long-range planning, capital projects, lease matters, vendor governance, security, and business continuity, while building high-performing teams and sustaining a safe, productive workplace.

Qualifications

• Ten or more years of progressive corporate real estate, facilities, construction, workplace, or property-management experience, including leadership of a complex facilities function and cross-functional capital initiatives.
• Experience leading workplace transformation, capital projects, and adaptable workplace programs that support employee experience, safety, and business needs.

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead the enterprise real estate, facilities, workspace, and campus strategy, including long-range space planning, occupancy planning, capacity modeling, and portfolio recommendations.
• Advise executive and senior leaders on workspace strategy, employee experience, capital priorities, facility risk, lease matters, and operational impacts of business decisions.
• Lead workplace modernization, renovations, construction, furniture programs, phased moves, temporary-space planning, and return-to-workplace initiatives from concept through closeout.
• Act as a business owner within applicable project governance, including scope definition, budgets, schedules, procurement, change control, inspections, punch lists, approvals, documentation retention, warranties, and project closeout.
• Direct real estate activities including market evaluation, broker coordination, lease negotiation and administration, tenant strategy, occupancy reporting, landlord obligations, and assignment or amendment activity.
• Establish and communicate standards for space, furniture, signage, wayfinding, conference rooms, shared workspaces, campus appearance, amenities, and the consistent employee and visitor experience.
• Provide strategic oversight and continual evaluation of physical security, access control, surveillance, alarms, vendor access, parking controls, investigations support, and related policies, contracts, systems, and audit responses.
• Lead emergency preparedness, evacuation planning, severe-weather readiness, crisis-management support, business continuity coordination, training, drills, and communication protocols.
• Develop and administer operating and capital budgets, forecasts, expenditure approvals, financial controls, project cost tracking, invoice reconciliation, and management reporting.
• Establish and maintain formal sourcing, RFP, vendor evaluation, contract, service-level, insurance, lien-waiver, and performance-management practices for facilities suppliers and contractors.
• Ensure compliance with applicable building, life-safety, accessibility, environmental, security, records, procurement, and company policy requirements; coordinate remediation of audit and control observations.
• Lead and develop Real Estate & Facilities managers and teams; clarify accountability, build succession capability, assess staffing needs, and support performance, compensation, and development decisions.
• Build productive partnerships across departments and functions, tenants, brokers, architects, engineers, contractors, and public agencies (such as city and county emergency management officials).
• Keep leadership and teams informed regarding significant property-specific issues and facilities management developments.
• Monitor industry practices, technology, market conditions, and workplace trends and translate relevant developments into practical recommendations for First Command.
• Accountable for development and administration of the department’s operating and capital budgets, project budgets, forecasts, expenditure approvals, cost controls, and financial reporting. Specific dollar authority is governed by current company approval limits.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Facilities management

Budgeting

Vendor management

Emergency preparedness

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, real estate, facilities management, architecture, engineering, construction management, or a related field

Job description

First Command seeks a Director, Real Estate & Facilities to lead our real estate portfolio, corporate campus, and facilities operations. This role partners with senior leadership to align space strategy with business goals and employee experience.

You will drive long-range planning, capital projects, lease matters, vendor governance, security, and business continuity, while building high-performing teams and sustaining a safe, productive workplace.