SAIC

Enterprise Facilities Operations and Maintenance Lead

SAIC • $120K — $145K *
Technical Services
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Active TS/SCI Clearance with Polygraph is required.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Architecture, or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
  • 14+ years of experience in facility engineering, operations, or program management, including team leadership.
  • Expertise in O&M activities and facility reliability assessments for mission-critical infrastructure.
  • Exceptional ability to communicate and brief 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 reporting quality and engineering methodologies.
  • Provide senior-level situational awareness regarding facility anomalies and mission impacts.
  • Ensure rigorous processes for anomaly tracking and data verification are established and enforced.
  • Direct the creation of innovative visualizations for executive decision support.
  • Serve as the senior liaison among government facilities organizations and Headquarters leadership.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead operations in a globally distributed facility environment.
  • Engage with senior government officials and enhance communication skills.
  • Work in a critical role that significantly impacts mission continuity.
  • Contributions to continuous improvement in facility operations and engineering practices.
Full Job Description
Job Description

SAIC is seeking an Enterprise FacilitiesOperations 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


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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