Facilities Manager, Preschools

Job Posting Title
:
Facilities Manager, Preschools

Employee Type
:
Regular

Recruiting Start Date
: 01-09-2026

Job Exempt?:
Yes

Recruiting End Date
:
Open Until Filled

Aloha mai! Mahalo for your interest in Kamehameha Schools. If you are looking for an opportunity to utilize your skills and talents and grow in your profession, while serving and strengthening our Native Hawaiian community, we would love to have you join our ʻohana!

​Kamehameha Schools is looking for a Facilities Manager for Preschools. This role will ensure that our preschool sites are safe, well‑maintained, and aligned with licensing standards.

While this position will be responsible for preschools across the pae aina, it is based primarily out of our Kawaiahaʻo Plaza (KP) location. Travel is required several times a year, with visits to each preschool site.

We are looking for a collaborative & experienced Facilities Professional with a minimum of 5 years of facilities management experience. Facilities management experience within the educational space is a plus!

This position will be responsible for 15 of our 30+ preschools:

• Overseeing facility‑related work orders and preventive maintenance across multiple sites
• Managing lease agreements and service contracts
• Leading minor construction, repair, and capital improvement projects
• Ensuring compliance with local, state, and national early childhood education facility standards

A key role and responsibility of the Division includes developing and executing strategies, plans, budgets, and policies related to investments into development, leasing, renovation, major repairs and maintenance of KS assets. Specifically, within the Facilities Management and Operations (FMO) Department, the Facilities Manager is responsible for Major Repair and Capital Improvement (MRCIP) projects and facilities management activities, implementing and managing a system‑wide facilities management program to ensure timely response, coordination and completion of all facility‑related work orders (via JOC and other contracted services), including construction and repair issues and managing a portfolio of space and ground leases.

• Develops and maintains a system‑wide facilities management strategy for all preschool and support locations.
• This position also:
  • develops best practices guidelines and/or operational procedures for facilities management
  • researches, establishes and tracks metrics according to industry benchmarks
  • works with preschool and support locations leadership teams to identify, plan, and coordinate licensing and accreditation requirements for all KS early childhood education programs
  • ensures management and preventative maintenance programs are in accordance with local, state and national early childhood program requirements

• Manages a lease portfolio with responsibilities including:
  • negotiates new site leases upon direction of preschool and support locations leadership teams
  • conducts statewide space and land availability surveys through internal and outside sources such as Land Managers, realtors, word of mouth and neighborhood analysis
  • establishes and manages lease portfolio and tickler file to ensure leases are current and renegotiate, renew, or terminate on a timely basis
  • leads lease administration duties which include lease renegotiations, renewals, rent and CAM escalations and negotiations, exercise options, and lease terminations as required

• Serves as the lead project manager for specifically assigned capital and MRCIP projects, planned and preventative maintenance, and space planning projects.
• Meets with various user groups including preschool and support locations leadership teams to identify, define project scope and provide justification from a facilities viewpoint. Develops budgets and project management plans for inclusion in the annual budget.
• Provides direction and oversight of design and construction‑related consultants and contractors. Coordinates project schedule and works with staff to complete projects according to budget and with minimal disruption and maximum safety for…