
Vice President, Operations
Cushman & Wakefield
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: California • Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $225,250 - $265,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Develop and execute long-term strategies for maintenance, reliability, and engineering aligned with both account/client and corporate goals.
- Lead capital planning and asset lifecycle management to optimize performance and ROI.
- Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to align operations with business objectives.
- Drive preventive and predictive maintenance programs to maximize equipment uptime and reliability to world-class standards.
- Implement world-class reliability practices including RCM, TPM, and root cause analysis.
- Drive standardization of engineering and maintenance processes across all sites and business units.
- Lead a high-performing team of engineering, maintenance, and reliability professionals.
- Foster a culture of safety, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Mentor and develop talent, ensuring succession planning and capability building.
- Ensure compliance with all regulatory, environmental, and safety standards.
Requirements
- BA/BS degree in Business Management/Engineering/Leadership or related field
- MBA Preferred but not required
- Previous service industry experience, progressing to a senior leadership position
- Minimum ten years’ (10) experience in the maintenance, reliability and engineering services industry, with at least seven years in a leadership position
- Demonstrated problem solving and customer service skills
- Digital Fluency skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Strong customer service skills
- Flexibility with regard to schedule and ability to travel at least 50%.
Benefits
- health, vision, and dental insurance
- flexible spending accounts
- health savings accounts
- retirement savings plans
- life insurance
- disability insurance programs
- paid and unpaid time away from work
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
preventive maintenancepredictive maintenanceroot cause analysisreliability-centered maintenance (RCM)total productive maintenance (TPM)capital planningasset lifecycle managementengineering processesperformance optimizationROI optimization
Soft Skills
leadershipproblem solvingcustomer servicecommunicationflexibilitymentoringteam developmentsafety cultureaccountabilitycontinuous improvement
Certifications
BA/BS degreeMBA