Associate Director, Facilities

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The job details are as follows:

Who we are

We are the first publicly-traded biotech or pharmaceutical company to take the form of a public benefit corporation. Our public benefit purpose is to provide a brighter future for patients through the development of novel pharmaceutical therapies; and technologies that expand the availability of transplantable organs.

United Therapeutics (Nasdaq: UTHR) seeks to travel down the corridors of indifference to develop treatments for rare, deadly diseases. We were founded in 1996 by a family seeking a cure for their daughter’s pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Today, we have six FDA-approved therapies that treat PAH, pulmonary hypertension associated with interstitial lung disease (PH-ILD) and neuroblastoma, a rare pediatric cancer. Our near-term pipeline seeks to develop additional therapies for PAH and pulmonary fibrosis (PF).

The cure for end-stage life-threatening diseases like PAH, PH-ILD, PF, and many others is an organ transplant, but only a small percentage of donated organs are available to address the vast need. For this reason, we are working to create manufactured organs to address the shortage of kidneys, hearts, lungs, and livers available for transplant. We believe an unlimited supply of tolerable, transplantable organs will eliminate the transplant waiting list and cure end-stage organ diseases for which transplant is not currently an option.

Who you are

In this role, you’ll step into the Associate Director, Facilities seat at our dynamic Silver Spring, Maryland campus, where you’ll continuously evaluate work processes and data to boost efficiency, outcomes, and service delivery across a high‑profile, multi‑use site. You’ll work to harness a robust CMMS to max out preventive, predictive, and calibration programs, oversee both non‑GMP maintenance and GMP calibration activities, and implement advanced reliability methods like RCM and FMEA to extend asset lifecycles and minimize unplanned downtime. Reporting to the Director, Maintenance, Calibration, and Tech Services, you’ll build and drive a strategic maintenance roadmap, lead and develop a lean maintenance and calibration team under strict safety and compliance standards, and collaborate closely with Reliability Engineering, Tech Services, and site stakeholders to ensure seamless operations. If you thrive on data‑driven decision‑making, asset management strategy, and empowering high‑performing teams, this is your chance to shape facility excellence at a truly unique company.

Minimum Requirements

• H.S. Diploma or General Education Degree (GED)

• 15+ years of progressive experience managing groups that provide diverse maintenance/engineering support with a H.S. diploma or 14+ years of progressive experience managing groups that provide diverse maintenance/engineering support with an Associates degree or 12+ years of progressive experience managing groups that provide diverse maintenance/engineering support with a Bachelor's degree

• 8+ years of people management experience

• 6+ years managing multi-use facilities (office, lab, manufacturing) with advanced engineering/maintenance scope

• Advanced knowledge of full-cycle maintenance, including preventative, predictive, planned, and reliability programs

• Demonstrated extensive facilities management experience, a strong engineering mindset, and a professional, customer-focused approach suitable for a mission-critical environment

• Extensive experience with maintenance strategy, vendor oversight, and GMP/regulatory compliance

• Highly skilled in ability to interpret reliability metrics, build business cases

• Advanced understanding of mechanical, electrical, plumbing, HVAC

• Strong demonstrated ability to develop robust SLAs, enforce vendor performance measures

• Highly skilled in communicating with cross-functional teams and leadership

• Demonstrated ability to motivate staff, set clear goals, cultivate continuous improvement

• Highly capable of representing site in a high-visibility environment, fostering stakeholder and leadership trust

• Demonstrated ability to interpret and analyze data, identify trends, and use da