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Director of Facilities
Posted: Open to internal and external applicants
Reports to: VP of Facilities & Operations
Status: Full-time, salaried, benefitted position
Hours of work: Standard Monday-Friday workweek, 8am-5pm. Occasional need for weekend or after-hours work as related to events and other projects.
Date needed: June 2024
Posting expires: When filled
Position description:
The Seattle Aquarium, a leading marine conservation organization, is looking for a Director of Facilities to join the Facilities Team. Our lives depend on the ocean, the life support system for our blue planet. The Seattle Aquarium's physical facilities and associated equipment in concert with the departmental personnel provide foundational infrastructure to facilitate delivery of the aquarium's mission: Inspiring conservation of our marine environment. The facilities team works diligently to safely maintain, operate, and secure the Aquarium's campus and offsite facility to support our shared of ocean conservation - starting here on Seattle's waterfront.
The Director of Facilities at the Seattle Aquarium is a key leadership role responsible for overseeing safety, security, habitats (exhibits), maintenance and efficient operations of our facilities. The position reports to the Vice President of Facilities and Operations, and has four direct reports (Facilities Operations Manager, Safety Manager, Security Manager, and Exhibits Technician), with an overall team of 32 staff members. The facilities department collaborates closely with all other Aquarium departments and partners to deliver infrastructure, systems and processes that facilitate mission-delivery across a wide range of organizational functions.
All positions at the Aquarium support and advance our SALISH Values (Sustainable, Awe-Inspiring, Learning and Improving, Inclusive Community, Scientific Integrity, Honoring Place). As a part of our values, the Aquarium is committed to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization. We adopted a DEI strategic plan and Regenerative Plan. We envision a future in which ocean and coastal communities survive and thrive, where we can meet the needs of the present while building more resilient and equitable systems for the future.
As part of our inclusive community value, work experience is valued the same as education degrees. A successful candidate will have a minimum of seven years of growing responsibility in a combination of facilities management, operations management, and/or related fields.
Key functions:
Team management and collaboration
Facilities operations, safety, security, and exhibits
Strategic thinking, planning & development
Required skills and experience: We will consider various combinations of relevant experience and education to meet minimum requirements.
Working conditions:
Salary and benefits: $98,000 - $125,000 yearly Dependent on experience. Please include salary expectations in your materials. Full-time staff are eligible for the Seattle Aquarium's comprehensive benefits package to include medical, vision, dental, an employer-funded health reimbursement account, medical and dependent care flexible spending accounts, life insurance, long-term disability, 403b retirement fund with employer match, access to a subsidized ORCA pass, a Seattle Aquarium Family Plus membership and generous paid time off.
How to apply: The Seattle Aquarium is committed to expanding a diverse, equitable, and inclusive conservation movement. We are invested in building an Aquarium with a wide variety of backgrounds, identities, languages, cultural ways of knowing, and life experiences. We know research shows that society has conditioned communities of color, trans and gender non-conforming people, immigrants, people with disabilities, and other marginalized candidates to more frequently not apply to a job because they don't feel that they meet all of the qualifications listed even if they are qualified. If you meet some of the requirements and you are passionate about our mission and our ocean, we encourage you to apply and look forward to learning more about you.
Interested candidates should upload a resume to our online application to be considered. Application review will begin immediately.
Please let us know if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for this job by emailing us at .
Note: If offered the position, candidates must pass a background check. Conviction record is not an automatic disqualifier; we are a second chance employer.
About the Seattle Aquarium:
The Seattle Aquarium is a respected authority on Puget Sound, the Salish Sea and the world's one ocean. Our passionate staff increases awareness and drives the change needed to preserve and protect our marine environment by providing an inspiring visitor experience, engaging daytime and evening events, conservation education programs for people of all ages and backgrounds, community outreach to marginalized populations, research that advances understanding of animals in our care and their counterparts in the wild, advocacy and policy work, an award-winning volunteer program, high-impact marketing and communications, and more.
Our values, developed in conjunction with our staff, include commitments to adopting and promoting sustainable practices, creating awe-inspiring experiences, constantly learning and improving, fostering an inclusive community, maintaining scientific credibility through evidence-based practices and honoring our unique place by using our location and history as a lens for larger understanding.
Proudly accredited by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums, we're among the top 10 aquariums in the U.S. by attendance, and we welcome over 850,000 people each year. Guided by our mission of Inspiring Conservation of Our Marine Environment, we're working to substantially increase our conservation impact by expanding our campus with a new building, the Ocean Pavilion. Learn more at .
Timeline:
We anticipate the following recruiting schedulefor those candidates who are selected for consideration.The following dates are preliminary and subject to change.We will work with candidates to set interview dates.If hired, relocation assistance is not available.
Full Time
Arts & Culture
$134k-171k (estimate)
03/30/2024
05/26/2024
seattleaquarium.org
SEATTLE, WA
100 - 200
1977
ROBERT DAVIDSON
$10M - $50M
Arts & Culture
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