About this role
## Position Summary
The Director, Facilities Maintenance & Asset Management is responsible for maximizing facility asset reliability, lifecycle performance, and infrastructure sustainability across the global network. This role establishes and governs maintenance strategies, reliability programs, computerized maintenance management system standards, and asset management processes that enable safe, compliant, and cost-effective operations. The position provides enterprise leadership for facility infrastructure performance while driving standardization, operational excellence, risk reduction, and long-term capital stewardship. The role supports manufacturing, distribution, laboratory, administrative, and support facilities through disciplined maintenance excellence, asset lifecycle planning, and reliability governance.
Remote Central US based position. Candidates residing near a STERIS manufacturing location are highly preferred.
Domestic and international travel required as business needs dictate.
## What You’ll do as a Director, Facilities Maintenance & Asset Management
- Develops and executes the enterprise facilities asset management strategy for manufacturing, distribution, laboratory, administrative, and support facilities; establishes asset lifecycle standards for acquisition, operation, maintenance, replacement, and disposal. (15%)
- Leads maintenance excellence programs, including preventive, predictive, and reliability-centered maintenance standards, global maintenance procedures, technical work practices, best-practice deployment, benchmarking, and continuous improvement. (15%)
- Owns computerized maintenance management system governance, asset hierarchy standards, preventive maintenance master data, reporting requirements, work order processes, spare parts management, and maintenance technology optimization. (15%)
- Provides enterprise oversight for critical facility infrastructure including heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, cleanrooms, electrical distribution, emergency power, mechanical and plumbing systems, process utilities, fire and life safety systems, and building automation systems. (15%)
- Provides technical and operational support to site facilities and maintenance teams; supports troubleshooting, root cause investigations, maintenance performance reviews, and sharing of best practices across the global network. (10%)
- Develops capital renewal plans, infrastructure replacement forecasts, facility condition assessments, asset risk evaluations, and investment roadmaps for aging infrastructure and critical systems. (10%)
- Ensures maintenance programs support safety, environmental, quality, regulatory, business continuity, emergency preparedness, disaster recovery, and critical infrastructure resilience requirements. (10%)
- Partners with sustainability, finance, design, construction, operations, and functional leaders to improve energy performance, reduce operating costs, manage maintenance budgets, monitor contractor performance, and report asset performance metrics to executive leadership. (10%)
## The Experience, Skills, and Abilities Needed
Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Facilities Management, Maintenance Management, Construction Management, Business Administration, or related technical discipline.
- Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in facilities maintenance, asset management, reliability engineering, infrastructure operations, maintenance systems, facility engineering, or related global facilities leadership.
- Experience developing preventive and predictive maintenance programs, asset lifecycle strategies, computerized maintenance management system governance, infrastructure reliability programs, maintenance standards, condition assessments, capital renewal plans, and maintenance performance metrics.
Preferred:
- Master’s Degree or advanced coursework in engineering, facilities management, operations, reliability, asset management, or business preferred.
- Professional certification preferred, such as Certified Facility Manager (CFM), Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP), Project Management Professional (PMP), LEED credential, or equivalent facilities, maintenance, reliability, or asset management certification.
- Experience in a global manufacturing, distribution, laboratory, healthcare, life sciences, regulated, or multi-site operating environment preferred.
Other:
- Ability to establish asset lifecycle standards, criticality models, renewal plans, replacement forecasts, and infrastructure investment strategies.
- Ability to lead preventive, predictive, reliability-centered, and continuous improvement maintenance programs across global facilities.
- Strong knowledge of asset hierarchies, master data, work order processes, maintenance reporting, dashboards, and system governance.
- Understanding of HVAC, cleanroom, electrical, emergency power, mechanical, plumbing, process utilities, fire/life safety, and building automation systems.
- Ability to align maintenance programs with regulatory, safety, quality, environmental, emergency preparedness, business continuity, and resilience requirements.
- Ability to advise senior leaders, align site teams, influence matrixed stakeholders, manage external partners, and present performance results clearly.
## What STERIS Offers
We value our employees and are committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that supports your health, well-being, and financial future.
Here is a brief overview of what we offer:
- Market competitive pay
- Extensive paid time off and (9) added holidays
- Excellent healthcare, dental, and vision benefits
- Long/short term disability coverage
- 401(K) with company match
- Maternity and parental leave
- Additional add on benefits/discounts for programs such as pet insurance
- Tuition reimbursement and continued educational programs
- Excellent opportunities for advancement in a stable long-term career
#LI-HT
Pay range for this opportunity is $144,500.00 - $187,000.00. This position is eligible for bonus participation.
Minimum pay rates offered will comply with county/city minimums, if higher than range listed. Pay rates are based on a number of factors, including but not limited to local labor market costs, years of relevant experience, education, professional certifications, foreign language fluency, etc.
STERIS offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits portfolio. Click here for a complete list of benefits: STERIS Benefits
Open until position is filled.
STERIS is a leading global provider of products and services that support patient care with an emphasis on infection prevention. WE HELP OUR CUSTOMERS CREATE A HEALTHIER AND SAFER WORLD by providing innovative healthcare and life sciences products and services around the globe. For more information, visit www.steris.com .
If you need assistance completing the application process, please call 1 (440) 392.7047. This contact information is for accommodation inquiries only and cannot be used to check application status.
STERIS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to ensure that persons are recruited, hired, trained, transferred and promoted in all job groups regardless of race, color, religion, age, disability, national origin, citizenship status, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state or local law. We are not only committed to this policy by our status as a federal government contractor, but also we are strongly bound by the principle of equal employment opportunity.
The full affirmative action program, absent the data metrics required by § 60-741.44(k), shall be available to all employees and applicants for employment for inspection upon request. The program may be obtained at your location’s HR Office during normal business hours.