Chief Facilities Officer
corporate_services › Facilities Management · E3 — E3 — Vice President · Executive
Executive who owns the organization's entire physical infrastructure strategy, real estate portfolio, and workplace operations.
Median pay · United States · annual
$374,432 USD
▲ +107.8% vs E1 on this ladder
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pay@2 · 2026-07
What this role is
Executive who owns the organization's entire physical infrastructure strategy, real estate portfolio, and workplace operations. At the Vice President (E3) level, the role owns a division, market and competitive strategy, and drives division-wide. Leads a division's leadership team.
What this level does
- Lead facilities and workplace operations for a large division or region through senior executives, shaping corporate real estate and facilities strategy at enterprise scale.
- Own enterprise-level facilities risk — business-continuity of critical sites, life-safety, physical security, and regulatory exposure — where failures carry critical strategic impact.
- Set the long-range real estate and workplace roadmap (footprint growth/contraction, sustainability/ESG targets for the built environment, hybrid-work space models) aligned to corporate strategy.
- Represent the organization externally on facilities and real estate matters — with major landlords, developers, municipal authorities, and industry bodies.
- Govern the total facilities capital and operating investment across the portfolio, arbitrating between divisional needs and enterprise priorities.
- Knowledge applied
- Shapes corporate real estate and facilities strategy for large divisions or regions, embedding sustainability/ESG and workplace models into the built-environment roadmap.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Owns enterprise-level risks — critical-site continuity, life-safety, physical security, regulatory exposure — with critical strategic impact.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Represents the organization externally with major landlords, developers, municipal authorities, and industry bodies; participates in strategy formation.
- Typical experience
- 15–20+ years with demonstrated enterprise-impact facilities and real estate leadership.
Skills at this level
- Portfolio and Real Estate Management
- — Directs the organization's facilities as a multi-site asset portfolio — consolidation, expansion, lease strategy, and occupancy cost — a top-order competency as the executive facilities role shifts from single-building operation to enterprise asset-oriented thinking.
- Facility Management
- — Coordinates and oversees the full range of facilities services — custodial, landscaping, security, maintenance, food and coffee services, parking, vending, access badges, and office moves — ensuring work facilities meet the organization's and employees' needs.
- Capital Project and Construction Management
- — Plans, budgets, and oversees construction and renovation projects to improve efficiency, ensuring completed facilities meet environmental, health, and security standards and government regulations.
- Facilities Regulatory Compliance
- — Ensures the physical estate meets OSHA, EPA, environmental, health, and security standards and government regulations, maintaining audit trails and compliance reporting across all sites.
- Facility Access and Security Systems
- — Monitors and manages facility access and safety protocols including security systems, access badges, and physical entry control for employees, visitors, and contractors.
- CMMS / FM Software Proficiency
- — Administers the Facilities Management (FM) / CMMS work-order request platform to schedule maintenance, manage vendor records, and generate the operational and compliance reporting that rolls up to leadership.
- Facilities Budgeting and Financial Planning
- — Owns budgeting, planning, and implementation of facilities operating and capital spend, arbitrating investment across sites to control cost while sustaining service levels.
- Building Systems (HVAC, Plumbing)
- — Applies technical understanding of core building systems — HVAC and plumbing among the most-sought facilities competencies — to direct maintenance standards, troubleshoot escalations, and set asset lifecycle plans.
- Vendor and Contract Management
- — Selects and manages custodial, landscaping, security, and maintenance vendors, negotiating outsourced-FM service agreements and holding suppliers to agreed service and safety levels.
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