Facilities & Capital Projects Manager
4 days ago
Glen Cove
This role is on-site at our manufacturing facility in Glen Cove, NY. We're hiring a Facilities & Capital Projects Manager to lead the expansion of our primary manufacturing campus from a multi-thousand sq ft operation today to 200,000+ sq ft supporting 200+ employees across production, engineering, and corporate functions. Your headline mission is the build: planning, contracting, and delivering a continuous pipeline of expansions, fit-outs, and infrastructure upgrades as we bring advanced manufacturing processes in-house including CNC machining, surface finishing and painting, and potentially molten metal casting. You'll act as the owner's representative on every project: directing architects, engineers, and general contractors on our behalf. You'll also lead our facilities function as it grows. You'll inherit an existing facilities associate who runs day-to-day operations, and you'll coach and develop them while building the broader team. This is a player-coach role: run a contractor meeting in the morning, present a capital roadmap to the executive team in the afternoon. • Own the facility roadmap: plan and execute expansions, tenant improvements, and infrastructure upgrades as we scale to 200,000+ sq ft and beyond, • Lead all phases of construction and improvement projects scope definition, bid solicitation, contractor selection, permitting, construction oversight, commissioning, and close-out with multiple projects running in parallel, • Drive rigorous project management discipline: detailed schedules, milestone tracking, budget control, risk identification, and stakeholder communication from kickoff to ribbon-cut, • Coordinate facility requirements for new process introductions (NPI) ensuring space, power, utilities, ventilation, drainage, and workflow are production-ready before equipment arrives, • Coordinate with IT and Engineering so new production zones are networked, monitored, and integrated before go-live, • Own the facilities capital budget; manage spend against plan with full transparency to leadership, • Maintain accurate facility drawings, equipment layouts, and utility documentation; run lessons-learned processes to improve execution speed and cost predictability, • Inherit, coach, and develop our existing facilities associate; build growth paths toward ownership of the maintenance function, • Build the facilities team ahead of expansions staffing plans that scale in step with the business, • Set clear performance expectations, conduct regular 1:1s, and foster a culture of safety-first, accountability, and continuous improvement, • Act as a player-coach: lead from the front on complex problems while developing the team's ability to solve independently, • Own the ecosystem of construction and facilities partners: general contractors, specialty trades (electrical, mechanical, civil, fire suppression, HVAC), landlords, and utilities, • Lead RFP, bid, and contract negotiation processes; establish clear SLAs, scope-of-work standards, and accountability across vendor relationships, • Build a qualified vendor bench that gives Standard Bots priority access, competitive pricing, and reliable execution as we grow, • Oversee day-to-day service vendors (janitorial, security, landscaping) through the facilities team, • Oversee the maintenance function preventive and corrective programs across production, lab, cleanroom, and office spaces executed by the facilities team you develop, • Ensure readiness of mechanical, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, compressed air, and utility systems for high-volume, continuous manufacturing (production uptime is a KPI), • Partner with Manufacturing Operations on floor layout, material flow, and 5S/lean environment standards, • Own EHS compliance strategy, leveraging outside consultants for programs and audits, and build toward a dedicated EHS hire as we scale, • Manage permitting and regulatory compliance for industrial processes CNC machining (coolant/chip disposal), spray painting (VOCs, ventilation, fire suppression), and casting (high-heat, fume extraction), • Ensure safety requirements are engineered into every project from design, not retrofitted after, • 8+ years delivering industrial or manufacturing construction projects, with significant time on the owner's side (owner's rep, plant engineering, or corporate capital projects), • Track record of on-time, on-budget delivery across multiple large, concurrent projects including capital projects of $5M+, • Fluency with construction contracts (GMP, lump sum, T&M), change order management, bid leveling, and contractor negotiation, • Experience with facilities serving heavy industrial processes (machining, painting/coating, casting, or equivalent) and their MEP demands, • Working knowledge of OSHA standards, building codes, fire and life safety systems, and environmental permitting, • Ability to read and interpret architectural, mechanical, and electrical drawings, • Experience managing and developing people you've grown junior team members, not just subcontractors, • Strong communicator, equally credible with tradespeople and executives, • Experience taking a manufacturing facility from lease/shell through fit-out to operations, • Familiarity with spray booth design, VOC permitting, and NFPA 33 compliance, • Experience with cleanroom or controlled environment facilities (ISO 68), • PE, CCM, PMP, or CFM credential, • Experience in a high-growth, scaling manufacturing or robotics company, • Ground-floor opportunity to build a world-class manufacturing campus literally, • Direct impact on the physical infrastructure behind a product that's changing how manufacturing works, • Collaborative, technically serious team that moves fast and values ownership, • Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits, • On-site role at our Glen Cove, NY headquarters The salary range for this role is $160,000 to $190,000. We are open to a variety of seniority levels and will build compensation packages commensurate with seniority and skill level. Base salary is just one part of overall compensation at Standard Bots. All Full-Time Employees are eligible for Employee Stock Options. We also offer paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees.