Director, Site Operations
Portland, OR$190k - $225kfull-timePosted today
About the role
Director, Site Operations to lead day-to-day operational performance of Panthalassa’s regional facilities, including headquarter and R&D campus in Portland, with Site Operations Managers at other locations; responsible for developing scalable operating models, cross-functional collaboration, and aligning site services with company growth.
Responsibilities
- Lead Site Operations across Panthalassa’s regional facilities, including corporate campus and mentorship of Site Operations Managers at other locations.
- Hire, develop, and manage a high-performing Site Operations team with clear ownership, priorities, and expectations.
- Establish consistent operating standards, service levels, and expectations across sites while accounting for unique location needs.
- Maintain visibility into major activities, constraints, and risks across the regional portfolio and align resources with business priorities.
- Serve as escalation point for significant site issues, operational conflicts, and service gaps.
- Maintain hands-on involvement at the main corporate campus while developing a regional operating model that does not depend on the Director personally solving every problem.
- Serve as senior operational partner to Engineering, Manufacturing, R&D, Facilities Engineering, EHS, Security, IT, Real Estate, and other functions.
- Build relationships with functional leaders to understand upcoming work, growth plans, and operational requirements.
- Ensure Site Operations Managers coordinate activities, shared resources, projects, moves, outages, deliveries, and other work affecting multiple teams.
- Identify operational impacts and resource constraints before they affect execution and bring together appropriate teams to resolve them.
- Translate company growth and changing operational requirements into site capabilities, staffing, services, and infrastructure needs.
- Build scalable systems, processes, and operating standards for high-performing, turnkey facilities.
- Develop common operating rhythms, escalation paths, service models, and KPIs across sites.
- Identify recurring operational friction and address root causes.
- Implement tools, automation, vendors, and processes to improve visibility, coordination, service quality, and efficiency.
- Establish mechanisms for sharing best practices and lessons learned between sites.
- Evaluate and evolve operating systems to support future growth.
- Own vendor and service strategy for site operations (janitorial, PPE, uniforms, furniture, waste, workplace supplies, fleet, logistics, etc.).
- Establish regional vendor strategies and standards; support local execution by Site Operations Managers.
- Develop scalable inventory, procurement, and replenishment strategies for operational supplies and shared resources.
- Ensure workplace readiness with Workplace Experience on space planning, accommodations, furniture, and moves.
- Partner with EHS, Security, Facilities Engineering, Real Estate, and property management on safety, security, utilities, wastewater, landlord, and site requirements.
- Develop and own regional Site Operations budget, including planning, forecasting, and ongoing management.
- Establish site-level budgets and maintain visibility into regional spending and future requirements.
- Build business cases for staffing, vendors, tools, services, and operational investments.
- Develop staffing and service models that scale with headcount and facility growth.
- Identify opportunities to improve cost and operational efficiency without compromising safety, reliability, service quality, or productivity.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in site operations, facilities operations, industrial operations, workplace operations, or related field, including leadership experience.
- Experience supporting industrial, engineering, manufacturing, laboratory, R&D, or similarly complex environments.
- Demonstrated ability to build and scale operational systems, teams, processes, and service models.
- Experience managing operations across multiple facilities, sites, or complex environments.
- Strong systems thinking and understanding of interactions between people, facilities, services, resources, and business activities.
- Experience managing significant operating budgets, vendors, procurement, and operational services.
- Strong people leadership with experience developing managers and teams.
- Excellent cross-functional communication and ability to influence across technical and operational groups.
- Strong judgment balancing immediate needs with long-term scalability.
- Comfortable operating at strategic and tactical levels in a fast-changing environment.
Skills
Required:Site Operations leadershipCross-functional collaboration
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Health insurance (company pays 100% of gold-level PPO plan for full-time employees, partners, and dependents)
- Dental insurance (company pays 100% for full-time employees, partners, and dependents)
- Vision insurance (company pays 100% for full-time employees, partners, and dependents)
- Disability insurance (company pays 100% for long-term disability policy)
- 401(k) and health FSA / dependent care FSA contributions
- Relocation assistance to Portland (if needed)
Last updated Oct 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Panthalassa
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We're harnessing renewable energy in the open ocean and delivering it around the world. Engineered in Portland, Oregon.
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