SAIC

Enterprise Facilities Operations and Maintenance Lead

SAIC • $160K — $200K *
Technical Services
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Active TS/SCI Clearance with Polygraph is required to be considered.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Architecture, or related discipline (additional relevant experience may substitute for degree).
  • 14+ years of experience in facility engineering, operations, or program management, including leadership of engineering teams.
  • Expertise in O&M activities and reliability assessments for mission-critical infrastructure.
  • Exceptional executive-level communication skills, including experience briefing senior government officials.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the enterprise operations and management team.
  • Supervise and mentor Facilities Engineers, providing technical guidance and professional development.
  • Drive continuous improvement in engineering methodologies and mission support practices.
  • Provide situational awareness on facility anomalies to executive leadership.
  • Oversee validation of facility reports for accuracy and operational relevance.
  • Establish and enforce processes for anomaly tracking and resolution documentation.
  • Ensure facility changes are assessed for mission impact and communicated effectively.

Benefits

  • Participation in and planning of facility-related exercises.
  • Innovative visualizations of facility infrastructure to support executive decision-making.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Description

SAIC is seeking an Enterprise Facilities Operations and Maintenance Lead to provide strategic, operational, and technical oversight of a team of facility engineering professionals as well as the Government customer. This role ensures a common operating picture for enterprise-wide facilities, operational continuity, anomaly reporting fidelity, and executive-level communication for facilities across a globally distributed environment.

The role oversees all reporting, interface coordination, and mission-impact assessments related to facilities operations and maintenance. This role maintains strong relationships with government facilities management organizations and Headquarters leadership to ensure facility conditions, disruptions, risks, and mission impacts are clearly understood, escalated, and resolved.

This position is located in Chantilly, VA and requires an active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.

Job responsibilities include:
  • Lead the enterprise operations and management team.
  • Supervise and mentor Facilities Engineers providing technical guidance, workload prioritization, feedback, and professional development.
  • Drive continuous improvement in reporting quality, engineering methodologies, communication frameworks, and mission support practices.
  • Provide senior-level situational awareness to executive leadership regarding facility anomalies, outages, operational changes, and mission impacts.
  • Oversee validation of facility reports for accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and operational relevance.
  • Establish and enforce rigorous processes for anomaly tracking, data verification, question resolution, and closure documentation.
  • Ensure facility changes-both planned and unplanned-are properly assessed for mission impact and communicated to senior government decision makers.
  • Direct the creation of innovative visualizations of facility infrastructure and operational changes, enabling effective executive briefing and rapid decision support.
  • Serve as the senior liaison between on-site government facilities organizations, O&M contractors, and Headquarters leadership.
  • Cultivate strong working relationships with government partners at multiple levels, ensuring alignment on priorities, reporting workflows, issue escalation, and mitigation strategies.
  • Guide the development and maintenance of facility operations plans, recapitalization strategies, requirements documentation, and other enterprise-level engineering deliverables.
  • Maintain oversight of deferred maintenance monitoring, outage reporting, and infrastructure performance baselining, as performed within engineering roles across operations.
  • Participation in and planning of facility related exercises.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications
  • Active TS/SCI Clearance with Polygraph is required to be considered.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Architecture, or related discipline
    • Additional relevant experience may substitute for degree
  • 14+ years of experience in facility engineering, facility operations, or facilities program management, including leadership of engineering teams
  • Expertise in O&M activities, engineering systems, facility reliability assessments, and mission-critical infrastructure
  • Demonstrated ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams and manage complex, time-sensitive operational environments
  • Exceptional executive-level communication skills, including briefing senior government officials

Desired Qualifications
  • Experience leading data center or other high-reliability, mission-critical facility environments
  • Credentialed technical certifications (CFM, PMP, PE, or equivalent)
  • Experience supporting Intelligence Community facilities or geographically dispersed enterprise facility programs

Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

Overview

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

About SAIC

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) is a technology integrator in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC has approximately 26,000 employees and operates in more than 70 countries. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia. SAIC provides services to the U.S. government, including the Department of Defense, the intelligence community, and civilian agencies. The company also serves commercial customers in the healthcare, energy, and financial services sectors.
Learn more about SAIC
Size
26,000 employees
Market Cap
$6 billion
Industry
Net Income
$206 million
Founded
1969
5 Year Trend
+10.7%
Revenue
$6.8 billion
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