Senior Facilities Project Engineer (Advanced Manufacturing)

Location: Sanford, North Carolina, United States; onsite five days per week. High travel of 50–75% may be required during construction planning, supplier reviews, installation, commissioning, startup, and production ramp-up. US domestic relocation is available. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Salary: $147,760–$221,640 per year

Company

hirify.global is developing an advanced manufacturing campus for compact track loaders and telehandlers, incorporating automation, robotics, digital production systems, and integrated logistics.

What you will do

• Lead facility planning, design, construction, commissioning, turnover, and operational readiness for complex capital projects.
• Manage integrated scope, budgets, schedules, quality, risks, governance, and recovery plans.
• Integrate facility, utility, infrastructure, controls, network, and manufacturing systems across office, warehouse, distribution, and production environments.
• Coordinate consultants, contractors, suppliers, and multidisciplinary engineering teams through design and project execution.
• Resolve cross-functional risks, ownership gaps, field issues, nonconformances, and punch-list items.
• Provide decision-ready recommendations to leadership and support testing, documentation, training, maintenance planning, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Experience managing complex capital projects with integrated scope, schedule, milestones, budgets, forecasts, change control, and risk management.
• Experience with facility planning, design, construction, commissioning, and capital investment processes in industrial or manufacturing facilities.
• Ability to coordinate electrical, mechanical, civil, utility, structural, fire-protection, building-control, and manufacturing-equipment requirements.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and influencing contractors, suppliers, engineers, and senior stakeholders without direct reporting authority.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, facilities engineering, or a related discipline.
• Ability to work onsite in Sanford five days per week and travel 50–75% during project delivery.

Nice to have

• Professional Engineer, PMP, Certified Facility Manager, LEED, or comparable credential.
• Knowledge of building, fire, environmental, safety, and engineering codes for industrial facilities.
• Technical depth in one facilities discipline with broad knowledge of electrical, mechanical, and civil infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to shape systems, standards, and the operating environment for a new advanced-manufacturing campus.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and employee assistance benefits.
• Paid time off, parental and adoption leave, 401(k), HSA, FSA, and incentive bonus programs.
• Career development and tuition reimbursement.
• Schedule flexibility is expected to meet project requirements.