Hiring: Director, Facilities & Engineering Company: Vericel® Corporation Location: Cambridge, MA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 10:36:35 Employment Type: On-site About the job Experience: •12 years of progressively responsible facilities, engineering, maintenance, or related experience in biotechnology, pharmaceutical, or other highly regulated manufacturing, including significant people-leadership responsibility. Required Skills: •This position is onsite Monday - Friday, primarily at our Cambridge, MA office. Some time will also be required in our Burlington, MA office as well. •Leadership & Organization •Lead, develop, and retain a high-performing Facilities & Engineering team; establish clear accountabilities, goals, succession plans, and development priorities. •Provide coaching, performance feedback, recognition, and corrective action as appropriate, and ensure managers effectively carry people-leadership responsibilities through the organization. •Establish departmental priorities, resource plans, training plans, and performance metrics aligned with site and company objectives. •Promote a culture of safety, quality, compliance, collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement. •Own the site strategy for facilities, critical utilities, manufacturing equipment, process instruments, building infrastructure, and associated lifecycle support. •Ensure robust preventive and corrective maintenance programs, asset reliability practices, spare-parts strategy, and effective use of the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS). Qualifications: •Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Facilities Engineering, or a related technical field. •A minimum of 12 years of progressively responsible facilities, engineering, maintenance, or related experience in biotechnology, pharmaceutical, or other highly regulated manufacturing, including significant people-leadership responsibility. •Demonstrated knowledge of cGMP, FDA expectations, and engineering/maintenance practices in a regulated manufacturing environment. •Comprehensive knowledge of building infrastructure, critical utility systems, manufacturing equipment, maintenance and reliability programs, and facility lifecycle management. •Strong leadership, communication, problem-solving, prioritization, vendor-management, and stakeholder-management skills. •Proficiency with Microsoft Office and related business systems. •Advanced degree in engineering, business, or a related discipline. •Construction management, capital planning, commissioning/startup, or reliability-centered maintenance experience. •Professional certification or licensure relevant to engineering, facilities, maintenance, project management, or reliability. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!