Senior Specialist, Florida Facilities

Success Academy Charter Schools, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Success Academy Charter Schools, Inc. is seeking a Senior Specialist, Florida Facilities to lead the on-site renovations and facilities operations across a growing portfolio of school campuses in Florida.

You will shape how facilities are designed, opened, and run, balancing construction needs with ongoing maintenance and safety requirements. The role requires strong collaboration with district partners, attention to wind and water readiness, life-safety compliance, and managing budgets and

Qualifications

• Seven or more years in facilities operations and renovation or construction delivery.
• Experience bringing a new or renovated facility from construction into stable operation, incl. commissioning and turnover.
• Experience delivering renovation inside occupied buildings with approvals.
• Practical knowledge of HVAC, electrical, plumbing, controls, life safety, security, accessibility.
• Ability to read and challenge drawings, specs, estimates, schedules, bids, and change orders.
• Command of project budgets, forecasting, procurement, change control, closeout, and warranty administration.
• Experience with public-sector partners and hurricane readiness is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Represent facilities requirements during design review and construction coordination.
• Coordinate with host-campus operations to keep occupied areas safe and usable.
• Drive permitting, district approvals, inspections, and life-safety milestones.
• Serve as on-site representative during construction with progress, safety, and schedule oversight.
• Build campus readiness plans covering vendors, inspections, utilities, and training.
• Lead commissioning, inspections, testing, turnover, and occupancy approvals.
• Own post-opening stabilization, defects, warranty claims, and contractor obligations.
• Maintain relationships with host district facilities teams and track obligations.
• Oversee facilities performance, preventive/corrective maintenance, and service contracts.
• Establish hurricane preparedness, response, and recovery procedures with partners.
• Develop repeatable playbooks for campus opening, turnover, and vendor management.

Skills

Facilities operations

Renovation/construction delivery

Commissioning/turnover

Budgeting/forecasting

Vendor management

Public-sector relationships

Documentation/compliance

Emergency/hurricane readiness

Tools

CCM

PMP

CFM

FMP

OSHA training

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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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We actively seek applications from people of all backgrounds to strengthen our community and the perspectives needed to flourish in a multicultural world. Success Academy offers a full benefits program and opportunities for professional growth.

Success Academy Charter Schools does not offer employment-based immigration sponsorship.