Head of Real Estate, Facilities & Workplace Experience

First Command; Fort Worth (TX); Sur place; USD 180 000 - 250 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

First Command seeks a Director of Real Estate & Facilities to lead the real estate portfolio, corporate campus, and related operations. You will guide space planning, occupancy, capital priorities, and risk management while aligning workplace programs with business objectives.

Responsibilities include managing leases, vendor relationships, security, emergency preparedness, and capital projects. A senior leader with 10+ years in real estate/facilities, strong collaboration, negotiation, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, real estate, facilities management, architecture, engineering, construction management, or a related field is preferred.
• 10+ 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.
• Certifications such as IFMA CFM, BOMI Real Property Administrator (RPA) or Facilities Management Administrator (FMA), CoreNet Master of Corporate Real Estate (MCR), or similar project-management credentials are preferred.

Responsabilités

• 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.

Connaissances

Leadership

Strategic planning

Facilities management

Real estate

Budgeting

Vendor management

Stakeholder communication

Project management

Formation

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

Description du poste

First Command seeks a Director of Real Estate & Facilities to lead the real estate portfolio, corporate campus, and related operations. You will guide space planning, occupancy, capital priorities, and risk management while aligning workplace programs with business objectives.

Responsibilities include managing leases, vendor relationships, security, emergency preparedness, and capital projects. A senior leader with 10+ years in real estate/facilities, strong collaboration, negotiation, and