VP, Facilities

Company Description

We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.

Here you can be your authentic self. As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, coupled with our Corporate Social Responsibility work, is informed by our employees, audiences, park guests and the communities in which we live. We strive to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. Together, we’ll continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world.

Job Description

The NBCUniversal Team is looking for a Vice President of Facilities Operations & Engineering that will be responsible for leading facilities strategy, highly efficient operations, insuring a relentless customer focus, along with overseeing a large and complex workforce covering NBC Universal’s West Coast and Atlanta Facilities.  Your focus is on building and leading a high performance team of facility professionals across multiple locations along with overseeing highly effective operations,. You will be a seasoned and savvy leader able to operate at multiple levels and bring in a forward-thinking Operations expertise.

What You’ll Do:

• Communicate efficiently with clients, executives, and major stakeholders to insure needs are proactively gathered, expectations properly set and met, and that priorities and dollars are balanced across the larger Studio Operations organization.
• Lead a team of geographically dispersed site leaders who each locally manage all necessary trades needed to maintain the facilities, this includes teams of inside and outside mechanics, electricians (including high-voltage), plumbers, maintenance crews and other facility services through consistent practices and solutions.
• Coach and develop team members, insuring the ‘hands on’ teams are positioned for success in managing their tools, equipment, software and responses.
• Design and plan programs which support a high-performance network of mechanical, electrical and plumbing infrastructure consistently across the portfolio.
• Through leveraging the team of site leaders, build and improve best practice tools and processes which build near and long term operational and lifecycle maintenance strategies which anticipate needs, prioritize and maximize investment dollars and drive the best possible operational performance. 
• Oversee each site leader as they collectively administer a large operational expense and capital budget.
• Be responsible for and champion safe work practices on all critical systems and MEP equipment.
• Work to develop consistent practices and solutions across multiple sites including NBCUniversal, 10 Universal City Plaza, DreamWorks, Playa Vista, Assembly Studios in Atlanta and other smaller sites
• Seamlessly integrate teams and work processes with colleague functions including Design & Construction, Capital Planning, Office & Space Planning Services, Corporate Services, EHS, Emergency Services, Security, Finance, Enterprise Engineering, Global Real Estate, and other key partners.
• Coach team in a metrics-driven culture to leverage performance reporting tools which track metrics and indicate how initiatives are delivering against anticipated benefits
• Be a critical member of the incident response team, accessible 24x7 for power outages, equipment failure or other matters requiring immediate attention.
• Review vendor proposals, contracts, and preventative maintenance programs, along with other critical contracted services, to help insure the best possible service and programs are in place consistently across the portfolio.
• Leverage thoughtful reporting and presentations which demonstrate results and earn executive buy-in and alignment around near and long term projects and initiatives.
• Creating and implementing standards, policy, best practices, and SOPs.

Qualifications

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