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Lowes Foods · 2 weeks ago

Director of Facility Engineering

1381 Old Mill Circle Suite 200

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

10+ years exp

Lowes Foods is seeking a Director of Facility Engineering to oversee the Facilities of 140+ Lowes Foods and Kj’s Retail stores. This role involves providing technical leadership to maintenance teams, managing supplier relationships, and developing sustainability programs while ensuring compliance and operational excellence.

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Responsibilities

Set clear objectives, performance standards, and KPIs for the maintenance team to ensure the highest level of service delivery, as well as providing rapid response to urgent requests

Sources and negotiates cost on all store equipment and maintenance parts. Manages the process with staff to source and negotiate costs on all store equipment to meet operation’s and merchandising needs

Partner with suppliers and 3rd party engineers to design grocery refrigeration systems to meet performance requirements, regulatory requirements, quality goals, and cost targets

Develop and implement energy sustainability programs and initiatives for Retail Stores, including management of rebate programs. Collaborate with marketing and communications teams to develop messaging and materials to raise awareness of sustainability initiatives

Establishes best practice standards including developing policies, procedures, and work-flows

Identify and develop talent to guarantee future performance and area growth. Ensure that team members assigned to the area are trained in the required technical and behavioral competencies

Collaborate with key stakeholders in relevant business areas including but not limited to Store Operations, Merchandising, Finance, Asset Protection, Construction, and Real Estate to maintain clean and safe facilities, identify/validate business needs, reduce total cost of ownership, and minimize asset downtime

This role works to develop annual and strategic plans focused on maintaining clean and safe facilities, extending asset life cycles, reducing asset/equipment downtime, minimizing total cost of ownership, and conducting capital planning to ensure facilities management excellence

Provide leadership in establishing and refining preventative maintenance programs, efficiency improvement programs, and regulatory compliance programs

Establish and oversee the process for routine facility assessments for retail stores

Manage vendor partnerships and services to improve response/resolution times, quality of service, and enterprise expenses

Analyze equipment history to identify root cause of repetitive failures and effectively address them

Identify critical inventory levels for all necessary maintenance equipment and select the most effective and efficient suppliers

Supervise and coach direct reports in the performance of their duties; completes performance reviews and provide feedback to direct reports

Comply with environmental, health & safety rules/procedures, regulations, and codes of practice

Qualification

Facilities managementRefrigeration system designProject ManagementFinancial ManagementData analysisVendor relationship skillsBudgetingVerbal communicationWritten communicationTeam leadership