Associate Vice President of Strategic Infrastructure Planning & Facilities

Position Summary

The Associate Vice President for Strategic Infrastructure Planning & Facilities will provide leadership and strategic vision to approximately 1,150 support and professional staff (which includes temporaries, on-calls and students). This position is responsible for safely and efficiently delivering over $164 million in facility services to the campus community annually. This position is responsible for shaping the unit to reinforce collaboration, accountability, and responsibility. This position provides leadership for the integrated planning, operation and maintenance of the campus infrastructure. This position also promotes an environment that recognizes and supports diversity, creates a climate that values and recognizes initiative, innovation, service excellence, continual learning, stewardship, and the achievement of results.

• 10+ years of progressively challenging professional experience, in a functional leadership role managing a team of diverse professionals with varied backgrounds and capabilities all working toward measurable bottom-line results and successes
• Experience with large complex budgets from multiple funding sources, professional facilities management on a large campus with multiple customers, city scale utility systems including distribution and generation, large capital construction at multiple sites, real estate acquisitions, sales, and leases utilizing multiple financing tools including P3’s
• Proven track record of excellent project management and strategic planning skills and effectively managing multiple projects with various deadlines and budgets
• Experience with positively and productively leading change with previous organizations/facilities
• Exceptional time management skills with proven ability to meet deadlines
• Outstanding communicator, both written and verbal; especially as it relates to communicating efficiently and effectively with customers, stakeholders and staff
• Established network connections within field of expertise
• Creative thinker who can also attentively and actively listen and skillfully communicate, knowledgably, with the appropriate level of business acumen to all levels within the university to faculty, administration, and staff
• Excellent leadership, interpersonal and conflict resolution skills while promoting teamwork
• Exercises good judgment, with integrity, and observes ethical standards ensuring University policies and procedures are being upheld
• Executes professional responsibilities with due care, competence, and diligence in accordance with the standards established for the profession
• Understanding of regulatory rules for power generation, water supply, and environmental compliance
• Experience in a large, complex organization or facilities is required
• Experience in contract interpretation, negotiation, grievance process and managing a unionized work force

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability or protected veteran status.

Required Degree

Bachelors -Engineering, Architecture, Business or Equivalent

Minimum Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in engineering, architecture, business, or equivalent; 10+ years of progressively challenging professional experience in a functional leadership role, managing a team of diverse professionals with varied backgrounds and capabilities all working toward measurable bottom-line results and successes.
• Experience implementing strategic frameworks, mission, vision, values, and action plans.
• Experience in a large, complex organization or facilities is required.
• Experience leading within a complex, interdisciplinary, union environment that deploys business intelligence tools for reporting, queries, and analysis.

Desired Qualifications

• A Professional Engineer (PE) license is desired.
• 10+ years of progressively challenging professional experience, in a functional leadership role managing a team of diverse professionals with varied backgrounds and capabilities all working toward measurable bottom-line results and successes.
• Experience with large complex budgets from multiple funding sources, professional facilities management on a large campus with multiple customers, city scale utility systems including distribution and generation, large capital construction at multiple sites, real estate acquisitions, sales, and leases utilizing multiple financing tools including P3’s.
• Experience implementing strategic frameworks, mission, vision, values, and action plans.
• Experience leading within a complex, interdisciplinary, union environment that deploys business intelligence tools for reporting, queries, and analysis.

Required Application Materials

A Resume and Cover Letter are required for applications to be considered. 

Review of Applications Begins On

11/03/2025

Website

https://ipf.msu.edu/

Department Statement

Infrastructure Planning and Facilities (IPF) plans, builds and maintains the physical environment for the university’s education, research, and outreach missions. The unit is comprised of numerous professionals who specialize in their areas of expertise, guaranteeing the best care and stewardship of MSU’s campus. As a unit, its collective vision is to be the most high-performing, innovative, leading-edge facilities organization in the nation.

To achieve its vision, IPF strives to operate by the following values:

IPF Mission
Deliver services and facilities that help Spartans change the world.

IPF Vision
To be the highest performing, leading-edge facilities organization in the nation

IPF Values
People
We commit to provide an engaging and inclusive work environment to develop individuals and our teams.

Partner
We commit to build strategic and trusting relationships with customers to advance our collective mission.

Stewardship
We commit to enhance the university mission by executing operations with strategic resource deployment to achieve quality outcomes and maximize value.

MSU Statement

Michigan State University has been advancing the common good with uncommon will for more than 160 years. One of the top research universities in the world, MSU pushes the boundaries of discovery and forges enduring partnerships to solve the most pressing global challenges while providing life-changing opportunities to a diverse and inclusive academic community through more than 200 programs of study in 17 degree-granting colleges.