Director, Critical Facilities Engineering

• Own reliability and performance of all mission‑critical systems , including power distribution, substations, generators, UPS/CPS, cooling plants, process utilities, and life‑safety systems.
• Establish and enforce global standards for redundancy, capacity management, maintenance, testing, and commissioning .
• Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and corrective actions for critical incidents, outages, or near‑miss events .

• Define and maintain global Critical Facilities Engineering standards , design guidelines, and operating procedures.
• Own the critical facilities risk register , including single points of failure, deferred maintenance risk, and capacity constraints.
• Ensure compliance with applicable codes and standards (NEC, NFPA, ASHRAE, OSHA, local AHJs, and internal governance).

• Provide technical governance and performance oversight of IFM partners delivering critical facilities operations and maintenance.
• Define SLAs, KPIs, and audit mechanisms for preventive maintenance, emergency response, and system availability.
• Act as escalation authority for high‑risk operational decisions affecting uptime or safety.

• Own the long‑term capital roadmap for critical infrastructure upgrades, renewals, and expansions.
• Partner with Finance and Facilities Leadership on CapEx prioritization, business cases, and risk‑based investment decisions .
• Ensure assets are managed through full lifecycle planning, including end‑of‑life strategies and redundancy planning.

• Provide engineering leadership for new builds, expansions, major retrofits, and capacity upgrades affecting critical systems.
• Ensure rigorous design review, FAT/SAT, integrated systems testing (IST), and commissioning before turnover.
• Approve deviations from standards based on documented risk assessments.

• Partner with CREW and site leadership to ensure BCP, ERP, and emergency power strategies are robust and tested.
• Lead readiness for utility failures, extreme weather events, and regional disruptions impacting critical infrastructure.

• Lead and develop a global Critical Facilities Engineering function (directs and/or matrixed).
• Establish training, certification, and succession planning for critical facilities expertise.
• Serve as the internal subject‑matter authority for critical infrastructure decisions.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Facilities Engineering (or equivalent experience).
• 12+ years of experience in critical facilities, data centers, fabs, labs, or mission‑critical environments .
• Proven leadership of high‑risk infrastructure operations with zero‑tolerance for unplanned downtime.
• Strong knowledge of electrical power systems, emergency generation, UPS, cooling, and controls.
• Experience governing outsourced or IFM delivery models.

Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 11/03/2026 (3 months from posting), although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline, we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future.
• You will be eligible to participate in Sandisk's Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance. Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Sandisk's Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program, employee stock purchase plan, and the Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law. REQUIRED:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Facilities Engineering (or equivalent experience).
• 12+ years of experience in critical facilities, data centers, fabs, labs, or mission‑critical environments .
• Proven leadership of high‑risk infrastructure operations with zero‑tolerance for unplanned downtime.
• Strong knowledge of electrical power systems, emergency generation, UPS, cooling, and controls.
• Experience governing outsourced or IFM delivery models. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Own reliability and performance of all mission‑critical systems , including power distribution, substations, generators, UPS/CPS, cooling plants, process utilities, and life‑safety systems.
• Establish and enforce global standards for redundancy, capacity management, maintenance, testing, and commissioning .
• Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and corrective actions for critical incidents, outages, or near‑miss events .

• Define and maintain global Critical Facilities Engineering standards , design guidelines, and operating procedures.
• Own the critical facilities risk register , including single points of failure, deferred maintenance risk, and capacity constraints.
• Ensure compliance with applicable codes and standards (NEC, NFPA, ASHRAE, OSHA, local AHJs, and internal governance).

• Provide technical governance and performance oversight of IFM partners delivering critical facilities operations and maintenance.
• Define SLAs, KPIs, and audit mechanisms for preventive maintenance, emergency response, and system availability.
• Act as escalation authority for high‑risk operational decisions affecting uptime or safety.

• Own the long‑term capital roadmap for critical infrastructure upgrades, renewals, and expansions.
• Partner with Finance and Facilities Leadership on CapEx prioritization, business cases, and risk‑based investment decisions .
• Ensure assets are managed through full lifecycle planning, including end‑of‑life strategies and redundancy planning.

• Provide engineering leadership for new builds, expansions, major retrofits, and capacity upgrades affecting critical systems.
• Ensure rigorous design review, FAT/SAT, integrated systems testing (IST), and commissioning before turnover.
• Approve deviations from standards based on documented risk assessments.

• Partner with CREW and site leadership to ensure BCP, ERP, and emergency power strategies are robust and tested.
• Lead readiness for utility failures, extreme weather events, and regional disruptions impacting critical infrastructure.

• Lead and develop a global Critical Facilities Engineering function (directs and/or matrixed).
• Establish training, certification, and succession planning for critical facilities expertise.
• Serve as the internal subject‑matter authority for critical infrastructure decisions.