Senior Regional Facilities Operations Leader

Fortinet, Inc.; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 125,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k)

11 paid holidays

Vacation and sick time

Leave program

Job summary

Fortinet, Inc. in the United States is seeking a senior Facilities Leader to manage multi-site operations across the Eastern United States and Latin America.

You will oversee safe, well‑maintained offices, lead preventive maintenance, and set regional standards while coordinating with project managers and IT, security, and HR teams. The ideal candidate has 12–15+ years in corporate facilities, strong vendor management, and experience leading distributed facilities without on-site staff.

Qualifications

• 12–15+ years in corporate facilities or related functions.
• 5+ years leading multi-site regional facilities operations.
• Experience managing geographically distributed facilities without dedicated onsite staff.
• Strong experience managing vendors, contractors, landlords, property managers, and third-party providers.
• Significant experience overseeing office renovations, tenant improvements, infrastructure projects, and capital projects.
• Experience working with project managers and managing multiple concurrent projects.
• Data Center, critical facility, laboratory, manufacturing, or other technically complex facility experience strongly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of facilities operations, building systems, budgeting, procurement, contracts, and vendor management.
• Proven ability to operate independently, make decisions, resolve issues, and manage competing priorities across multiple locations.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability and willingness to travel frequently.

Responsibilities

• Lead facilities operations across multiple offices in the Eastern United States and Latin America.
• Ensure facilities are safe, reliable, well maintained, professional, and operating according to company standards.
• Oversee preventive and corrective maintenance programs, including HVAC, electrical, plumbing, building systems, and general facility repairs.
• Establish consistent Facilities standards, processes, service levels, and operating procedures across all assigned locations.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for significant facility issues and operational emergencies.
• Manage and hold accountable third-party Facilities service providers, contractors, landlords, property managers, and vendors.
• Develop and monitor vendor KPIs, SLAs, service quality, response times, costs, and performance.
• Lead vendor selection, contract negotiations, renewals, and performance reviews.
• Provide leadership and oversight for office renovations, tenant improvements, expansions, relocations, infrastructure upgrades, and other Facilities projects.
• Partner closely with internal and external project managers to ensure projects meet scope, budget, schedule, quality, and business requirements.
• Provide executive-level oversight rather than functioning solely as the day-to-day project manager.
• Review project risks, budgets, schedules, design decisions, change orders, and contractor performance.
• Support or lead Facilities-related Data Center construction, expansion, infrastructure upgrades, and critical-environment projects as required.
• Coordinate with engineering, IT, network, security, consultants, contractors, and project management teams.
• Ensure reliability, resiliency, safety, and operational requirements are incorporated into project planning and execution.
• Develop and manage regional Facilities operating and capital budgets.
• Forecast Facilities expenses and capital requirements.
• Review project budgets, vendor proposals, service contracts, and capital expenditure requests.
• Identify opportunities to improve service while controlling operating costs.
• Act as the Facilities owner for the assigned region, even where dedicated onsite Facilities teams do not exist.
• Build strong working relationships with local office leadership, Project Management, IT, Security, EHS, HR, Finance, Procurement, and other corporate functions.
• Provide regular reporting to Silicon Valley headquarters regarding facility conditions, major issues, project status, budget, risks, and priorities.
• Establish scalable processes that allow a distributed regional portfolio to operate consistently and effectively.

Skills

Regional facilities leadership

Vendor management

Project oversight

Data center experience

Budgeting & procurement

Travel willingness

Job description

Fortinet, Inc. in the United States is seeking a senior Facilities Leader to manage multi-site operations across the Eastern United States and Latin America.

You will oversee safe, well‑maintained offices, lead preventive maintenance, and set regional standards while coordinating with project managers and IT, security, and HR teams. The ideal candidate has 12–15+ years in corporate facilities, strong vendor management, and experience leading distributed facilities without on-site staff.