Director, Integrated Facilities Management

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**** Posting Reason:
** Replacement of a regular position
** Job Type:
** Employee
* * Anticipated Duration in Months** (for contracts and temporary assignments):

N/A
** Job Family:
** Business Strategy and Planning**# of Open Positions:
** 1
* * Faculty/Service - Department:
** Office of the Associate Vice-President, Facilities
** Campus:
** Main Campus
** Union Affiliation:
** N/A
** Date Posted (YYYY/MM/DD):
** 2026/01/08
** Applications must be received*
* **** BEFORE**** **(YYYY/MM/DD):
** 2026/02/09
** Hours per week:
** 35
* * Salary Grade:
** Non-Union Grade NM4
** Salary Range:**$ - $About the service:
Facilities   Facilities services are characterized by a dynamic and creative growing team where the winds of change are blowing, offering people like you opportunities to use your leadership and innovation skills to contribute to the achievement of their inspiring mission: to deliver best in class research infrastructure, reshape campus life and student experience, and provide a sustainable environment for students, researchers, teachers and community.
uOttawa’s facilities encompass three main sites that are comprised of over 600,000 square meters of building space (over 6.4 million square feet), 42.5 hectares of grounds, 125 buildings and 4,500 beds in 11 residences. There are over 150 employees in Facilities, including Project Managers, Energy and Commissioning Specialists, Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, Architects, and space Planners. The facilities capital and operating expenditures are in the range of $100M for the University’s $2.0 billion assets under management.

The 20-year Capital spending plan envisions $4.0 billion of new investment highlighted by uOttawa launch of project Top Shelf, a $300 million capital investment to build a new facility for the Faculty of Health Sciences at uOttawa’s River Campus, as well as a tower at the Roger Guidon campus to house uOttawa’s new Advanced Medical Research Center (AMRC).
** Position

Purpose:

** The Director provides strategic leadership, oversight, and direction for all facilities, maintenance, infrastructure, and building services across the university’s campuses and clients. This role ensures that the built environment (classrooms, laboratories, offices, residences, sports facilities, etc.) is safe, efficient, sustainable, and aligned with the institution’s mission, strategic goals, and regulatory obligations. The Director is responsible for balancing operational reliability with long-term strategic capital planning, energy and sustainability goals, regulatory compliance, and user service quality.

The role manages spaces on campus to improve user experience and ensure their associated safety. The role develops and optimizes tactical and operational plans to enhance spaces while acting as the main liaison for all construction and move related projects.

Key player in helping and facilitating the campus development of short/medium/long-term space plans geared towards optimization and enhance utilization.

Responsible to ensure that building structures, building operating and monitoring systems for the university owned and leased properties are operated and maintained in a reliable, efficient and cost-effective manner to ensure a safe and comfortable work environment in which campus users can carry out their activities.
** In this role, you will:
*** Strategic and operational leadership, including the preparation and successful deployment of an annual strategic and operational plan related to space and capital projects.
* Develop and communicate a compelling vision that provides a purpose and focus for the team and that broadly supports the overall mission for Facilities.
* Plan, prioritize and manage the workload of staff and external resources to achieve an optimization of resources to deliver strong value to the university.
* Ensure compliance to all policies, codes and regulations as well as develop, monitor and maintain the practices, policies and procedures for Client Engagement.
* Direct relationship with the leaders of faculties and services (Dean, CAO, Professors, Researchers) in order to ensure ongoing institution-wide satisfaction with…