Vice President of Facilities & Construction

OVERVIEW:

The Vice President of Facilities & Construction is a senior executive leader responsible for stewarding the organization’s physical assets through a period of active growth, new construction, facility maintenance, public space, and groundskeeping. This role ensures that new and existing facilities consistently reflect the organization’s standards for quality, safety, hospitality, and culture—while protecting long-term asset value and financial performance.

This leader balances forward-looking growth initiatives with disciplined care of existing assets, ensuring that capital is invested wisely and Facilities and EVS teams feel connected to the broader organization.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

(These functions are intended as a general illustration of the work performed in this job classification and are not all inclusive for this position)

Strategic Leadership & Growth Enablement

• Creates an atmosphere that induces guests to make Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sacramento at Fire Mountain their choice for gaming entertainment; responsible for actively building and retaining guest relations and acts as a mentor to team members in order to provide superior guest service.

• Ensures delivery of superior internal and external guest service with every interaction including the Hard Rock Competencies of Business Results, Team member Engagement and Guest Engagement for this position and responsible departments.

• Develop and execute a campus-wide facilities and capital strategy and preventative maintenance plan that supports new development and long-term asset preservation.

• Assists with design and construction of new and capital projects.

• Manage departmental profit and lose and maintain the department’s capital expenditure schedule.

• Serve as executive owner of the physical asset lifecycle, balancing reinvestment in existing facilities with strategic deployment of capital for growth.

• Partner closely with Development, Finance, Operations, and Executive Leadership to align capital planning with growth priorities, underwriting assumptions, and operational realities.

• Act as a cultural ambassador, ensuring facilities decisions reinforce organizational values and brand standards across legacy facilities and new construction projects.

Team Leadership & Cultural Connectedness

• Build and develop a high-performing, values-aligned facilities leadership team capable of scaling with the organization.

• Foster cultural connectedness among facilities leaders and on-site teams, ensuring they feel included, informed, and aligned with organizational goals.

• Create clear expectations, development pathways, and accountability structures for facilities professionals.

• Champion a mindset of ownership, collaboration, and pride in the physical environment.

Capital Planning & Asset Longevity

• Lead a disciplined, multi-year capital planning and budgeting process that prioritizes safety, compliance, resident experience, and asset life extension.

• Implement standardized asset lifecycle management, including HVAC, and major systems.

• Ensure renovations, refreshes, and repositioning’s are executed efficiently and with minimal disruption to guests and operations.

• Balance near-term financial performance with long-term asset health and replacement planning.

• Develop 10-year capital plans for facilities that identify projected cash needs to align with targeted debt financing activities.

• Ensures delivery of superior internal and external guest service with every interaction including the Hard Rock Competencies of Business Results, Team member Engagement and Guest Engagement for this position and responsible departments.

• Assumes management responsibility for day-to-day operations and financial activities; successfully directs departments to fulfill regulatory compliance.

• Establishes department standard, guidelines and objectives, and maintains other administrative processes, such as budget and staffing to ensure proper planning and efficient operations of assigned areas.

• Attend and participate in meetings, completing follow-up as assigned.

• Perform work regularly and predictably.

• Attend seminars when needed.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Facilities Operations & Quality Assurance

• Establish consistent preventive maintenance standards, performance metrics, and reporting, while allowing flexibility to meet needs.

• Develop a reporting platform for identified stakeholders to understand current status of all standards and metrics at the facility.

• Ensure facilities, including public space, are safe, well-maintained, and reflective of hospitality-level expectations at all times.

• Support leadership teams with responsive, solution-oriented facilities expertise.

• Develops reporting and monitoring systems to accomplish objectives, maintains control of assets and fulfills regulatory compliance.

• Prepares operating budgets, monitors budgetary compliance and takes action on budget variance items.

• Responsible for ensuring facility and grounds are aesthetically welcoming to guests.

• Participate and contribute towards the initiatives established by the Executive team.

• Monitor and maintain energy management systems, utilities, and the waste water treatment plant.

• Instructs and supervises team members on the operation and care of exterior maintenance.

• Instructs team members on the care of equipment.

• Oversees the general cleaning of grounds and surrounding areas. Ensures that facility are maintained in a condition which excels in entertainment standards.

• Supervises and participates in the operation and maintenance of pumps, and in the maintenance of irrigation and drainage control systems, including wells, pumps, and automatic controls.

• Prepares schedules and reports as required for equipment and personnel.

New Construction

• Support new construction and development projects, collaborating with Development and external partners to ensure constructability, durability, and long-term operating efficiency.

• Establish clear handoff processes from development to operations to protect asset quality from day one.

Financial Stewardship & Vendor Strategy

• Own facilities and capital budgets, ensuring strong ROI discipline and alignment with pro forma and underwriting expectations.

• Drive cost efficiency through standardization, energy management, vendor consolidation, and proactive replacement strategies.

• Negotiate and manage vendor and contractor relationships to ensure quality, accountability, and scalability as the organization grows.

• Provide transparent, executive-level reporting on capital spend, risks, and asset performance.

Compliance, Safety & Risk Management

• Ensure ongoing compliance with life safety codes, licensing requirements, and regulatory standards across the property.

• Lead facilities readiness for surveys, inspections, and audits, particularly in newly acquired or newly opened projects.

• Partner with Risk Management to reduce incidents, manage claims, and strengthen a culture of safety and accountability.

• Ensures the effective, efficient, safe and overall cleaning maintenance of facilities and public areas. Also responsible for maintenance of facilities and repair of building amenities, utilities, parking lots, exterior landscaping and interior floral/seasonal decorations, oversees and administers maintenance contracts, as well as lead all new construction projects.

• Inspects facility utilities and equipment and takes action to correct problems in order to minimize potential for safety violations.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION AND /OR EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

(Related education and experience may be interchangeable on a year for year basis)

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Facilities Management, or related field (Master’s preferred)

• 10+ years of senior leadership experience in facilities, capital projects, or real estate operations within gaming, hospitality, or other multi-site environments

• Proven success supporting acquisitions, portfolio growth, and/or new development

• Strong financial acumen with experience managing large capital budgets and long-range planning

• Deep knowledge of building systems, life safety codes, and regulatory environments

• Experience managing facilities portfolios exceeding $1B in asset value

Preferred

• Experience with casino facilities and maintenance.

• Professional certifications such as PE, CFM, or PMP

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS: (Licenses, Certifications, Testing, etc):

• Must obtain and maintain valid licenses / certifications per Federal, State, and Gaming regulations.

• Must successfully pass background check.

• Must successfully pass drug screening.

• Must be at least twenty-one (21) years of age.

• High degree of interpersonal skills

• Must have strong leadership and team building skills.

• Must be detail-orientated and be able to multi-task

KNOWLEDGE OF:

• Strategic Leadership & Growth Enablement

• Team Leadership & Cultural Connectedness

• Capital Planning & Asset Longevity

• Facilities Operations & Quality Assurance

• Acquisitions & New Construction

• Financial Stewardship & Vendor Strategy

• Compliance, Safety & Risk Management

ABILITY TO:

• Be a proactive thinker, strategic and creative.

• Be open to guidance and input from all corporate directives.

• Make unpopular and/or difficult decisions which benefit the organization in the short and long term.

• Be a strategic, analytical, ethical and effective motivator;

• Forecast changes in the economic climate and/or profits and react accordingly;

• Select, supervise, train, and evaluate team members;

• Participate in the development and administration of goals, objectives, and procedures;

• Prepare clear and concise administrative and financial reports;

• Interpret and explain policies and procedures;

• Communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing;

• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work

• Interpret and apply federal, state and local policies, laws, regulations.

• Be flexible to work varying shifts and time schedules as needed.

• This position spends time on the Casino floor and is subject to varying levels of crowds and noise, and the severity of which depends upon guest volume.