Facilities Operations Manager - Nights at Panasonic

Facilities Operations Manager

Join us at Panasonic Energy as we expand to De Soto, Kansas, where we're building the world's largest lithium-ion battery factory. This is an exciting opportunity to grow your career while contributing to the future of electric vehicles. As part of our team, you'll help push the limits of battery technology, enhancing performance and efficiency in sustainable transportation. Our state-of-the-art facility, just outside the Kansas City Metro, will be a hub for innovation in green energy solutions. If you're passionate about sustainability and eager to contribute to the electric vehicle revolution, we invite you to be part of our dynamic team. Join us and make a meaningful impact on the future of energy and transportation.

The Facilities Operations Manager is responsible for leading and optimizing facility operations across critical utilities and infrastructure systems, including SCADA-driven Facilities Management Systems (FMS), HVAC, electrical distribution, water and wastewater treatment, and chemical systems. This role oversees a large, multi-shift facilities organization through direct leadership of Facilities Supervisors and indirect leadership of hourly facilities personnel. The Manager ensures safe, reliable, compliant, and cost-effective operations in direct support of manufacturing and site objectives while driving continuous improvement, workforce development, and strategic alignment with Engineering, Maintenance, EHS, OHS, and Project teams.

Essential Duties:

• Functional Leadership & Operations: Provide overall leadership and operational oversight of facilities utilities and infrastructure across assigned areas and shifts
• Strategic Alignment & Continuous Improvement: Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance safety performance, system reliability, uptime, energy efficiency, and cost effectiveness
• Team Development & Knowledge Sharing: Lead, develop, and retain a high-performing facilities organization, including Supervisors, Leads, and hourly team members
• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement: Partner closely with Engineering, Maintenance, Construction, Project Controls, EHS, and Operations to align facilities support with business needs
• Quality, Safety, Compliance, & Risk Management: Ensure compliance with all environmental, health, safety, quality, and financial regulations, permits, and internal standards

Qualifications Requirements:

• Required: Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, Engineering, or a related field
• Preferred: Master's degree (MBA or MS) in a related discipline
• Certified Facility Manager (CFM) or Facilities Management Professional (FMP)
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification
• NFPA 70E or NFPA 70B certification
• OSHA 30-Hour General Industry certification
• Mobile Elevated Work Platform (MEWP) Trainer
• HAZWOPER 8- or 40-hour certification
• EPA Universal Certification (or equivalent refrigerant handling certification)
• Commercial Driver's License (CDL)

Alignment to Panasonic's seven (7) core principles (contribution to society, fairness and honesty, cooperation and team spirit, untiring effort for improvement, courtesy and humility, adaptability, gratitude)

Physical Demands:

• Sit: 40%
• Walk: 30%
• Stand: 30%
• Required Lifting and Carrying: Up to 10 lbs.: Continuous Up to 20 lbs.: Occasional Up to 35 lbs.: Occasional Team-lift only (over 35 lbs.): Rare

Benefits & Perks - What's In It For You:

Panasonic Energy prioritizes total well-being and offers comprehensive benefits options to support physical, emotional, financial, social, and environmental health:

• Health Benefits Offering medical, dental, vision, prescription plans, plus Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account options.
• Voluntary Benefits Life, accident, critical illness, disability, legal, identity theft, and pet insurance.
• Panasonic Retirement Savings & Investment Plan (PRSIP) 401(k) plan with company matching contributions and immediate vesting.
• Paid Time-Off Benefits Vacation, holidays, personal days, sick leave, volunteer, and parental & caregiver leave.
• Educational Assistance Tuition reimbursement for job-related courses after six months of service.
• Health Management and Wellbeing Programs Lifestyle Spending Account, EAP, virtual health management, chronic condition, neurodiversity, tobacco cessation, substance abuse support, and life stage and fertility resources.

Employee Recognition Program - High5 employee recognition and awards platform, quarterly and annual employee recognition

Annual Bonus Program - Opportunity for an annual performance-based bonus.

On-site Food Options: Several on-site cafes, plentiful snack and beverage kitchens, revolving on-site vendor visits and employee events.