Senior Specialist, Florida Facilities

Success Academy Charter Schools; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Success Academy Charter Schools in Florida seeks a Senior Specialist, Florida Facilities to lead the renovations and facilities program across campus openings and ongoing operations. You will manage design reviews, commissioning, safety, and district partnerships while moving from construction to stable daily operation.

This role requires travel across current and future campuses, readiness planning, hurricane preparedness, and close collaboration with host districts to meet service levels and

Qualifications

• Seven or more years across facilities operations and renovation or construction delivery.
• Experience bringing a new or renovated facility from construction into stable operation.
• Renovation or fit-out work inside occupied buildings with approvals.
• Knowledge of core building systems: HVAC, electrical, plumbing, life-safety, and envelope.
• Ability to read and challenge drawings, specs, schedules, bids and change orders.
• Budgeting, forecasting, procurement, change control, and warranty administration.
• Maintenance, emergency response, and vendor management experience.
• Strong relationships with public-sector partners and documented positions.
• Experience with Florida districts, hurricane readiness, and permits preferred.
• Certifications such as CCM, PMP, CFM, FMP, or OSHA valued but not required.

Responsibilities

• Represent facilities requirements during design review and construction coordination.
• Ensure wind loading, water intrusion, drainage, and power resilience are addressed.
• Drive permitting, district approvals, inspections, and life-safety milestones.
• Act as on-site representative during construction; monitor progress, safety, schedule, and costs.
• Coordinate with host-campus operations to keep occupied areas safe and usable.
• Maintain budgets and schedules with contingencies and justification for changes.
• Build campus readiness plans covering vendors, inspections, and trainings.
• Lead commissioning, inspections, testing, punch lists, and occupancy approvals.
• Own post-opening stabilization, warranty claims, and contractor obligations to resolution.
• Manage relationships with host districts' facilities organizations and escalation paths.
• Oversee facilities performance, preventive/corrective maintenance, and service contracts.
• Serve as senior Florida facilities escalation point; coordinate hurricane preparedness and response.

Skills

Facilities operations

Renovation delivery

Construction coordination

Building turnover

Occupied-building renovation

Building systems

Reading drawings

Budgeting & procurement

Maintenance & emergency

Stakeholder management

Florida experience

Certifications valued

Job description

Thanks for your interest in Success Academy! Running a large, fast-growing, and high-performing network of public charter schools takes a village - families, children, teachers, staff and faculty, advocates, and supporters alike. We are growing fast in New York and expanding to Florida, and we would love to welcome you to our community! We work tirelessly every day to ensure children have access to a fun, rigorous, whole-child education regardless of zip code or economic status. When you join SA, you play a part in giving every student who walks through our doors a fair shot at reaching his or her potential.

About The Role

Success Academy is building a network of exceptional public schools in Florida. We are seeking a Senior Specialist, Florida Facilities to join our Renovations & Facilities team as the on-the-ground leader accountable for delivering and operating safe, compliant, instruction-ready school facilities across this growing portfolio of co-located district campuses.

This role covers both sides of a new campus. It builds operating requirements into design and construction, leads the readiness and acceptance work that gets a campus open, and then owns ongoing facilities performance and the working relationship with each district partner.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in fast-moving, mission-driven environments, is comfortable moving between an active construction site and an occupied school, and wants to shape how a facilities operation is built rather than inherit one.

Key Responsibilities

• Represent facilities requirements during design review and construction coordination, reviewing plans and proposed systems for maintainability, reliability, life-safety compliance, service access, operating cost, resilience, and daily fit with the needs of scholars and school teams.
• Confirm that design and construction address wind loading, water intrusion, drainage, and power resilience appropriate to each site and to Florida conditions.
• Drive permitting, district approvals, inspections, accessibility, and fire and life-safety milestones through disciplined tracking and follow-through.
• Serve as Success Academy's on-site representative during construction, monitoring field progress, workmanship, safety, schedule, cost, submittals, and corrective work.
• Coordinate construction activity with host-campus operations so occupied areas stay safe and usable and site conditions remain controlled.
• Maintain credible budgets and schedules with commitments, contingency, forecast at completion, and variance, and require documented justification and approval before any change-order commitment.
• Build campus-specific readiness plans covering vendors, inspections, emergency procedures, utilities, spare parts, warranties, access, and facilities training.
• Lead commissioning, inspections, systems testing, punch-list management, occupancy approvals, and closeout, and confirm each campus is presented for operational acceptance with verified approvals, tested critical systems, and a documented open-items list with owners and dates.
• Own post-opening stabilization, driving defects, incomplete work, warranty claims, and contractor obligations to resolution.
• Own the working relationship with each host district's facilities organization, maintain a per-campus record of which party carries each obligation, and hold host partners to those obligations through documented requests, tracked response, and escalation.
• Own facilities performance in Success Academy space, including preventive and corrective maintenance, and manage the service providers Success Academy contracts with clear scopes, service levels, escalation paths, and performance expectations.
• Serve as the senior Florida facilities escalation point, participate in after-hours response, and establish hurricane preparedness, response, continuity, and recovery procedures coordinated with each host's plan.
• Build the repeatable playbooks for campus opening, turnover, inspection, maintenance, emergency response, and vendor management that later campuses will use.

Skills / Qualifications

• Seven or more years across facilities operations and renovation or construction delivery, with a demonstrated record in both.
• Direct experience bringing a new or substantially renovated facility from construction into stable operation, including commissioning and turnover.
• Experience delivering renovation or fit-out work inside an occupied building, under another party's approval process.
• Practical knowledge of core building systems, including HVAC, electrical, plumbing, controls, fire and life safety, security, accessibility, and envelope.
• Ability to read and challenge drawings, specifications, estimates, schedules, bids, and change orders.
• Command of project budgets, forecasting, procurement, change control, closeout, and warranty administration.
• Experience managing preventive and corrective maintenance, emergency response, compliance activities, vendors, and operating budgets.
• Strong relationship judgment and composure with public-sector partners, and the discipline to document positions clearly.
• Experience with Florida districts, public agencies, co-located facilities, permitting authorities, hurricane readiness, and water-intrusion prevention is preferred.
• Credentials such as CCM, PMP, CFM, FMP, or OSHA training are valued but do not substitute for demonstrated delivery.

Work Expectations

• This is a Florida-based role requiring regular travel among current and future campuses, with occasional travel to New York.
• The role requires comfort working in active construction environments and occupied school facilities.
• Flexibility is required for early mornings, evenings, and weekends around critical inspections, turnovers, openings, and urgent conditions, and to support hurricane readiness, activation, response, and recovery.

Success Academy Charter Schools is an equal opportunity employer and actively encourages applications from people of all backgrounds. Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience. Success Academy offers a full benefits program and opportunities for professional growth.

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