Director of Constructions and Real Estate

About the role

Coherent Corp is seeking an experienced and detail-oriented Director of Real Estate and Construction Project Management to assess the overall performance of our manufacturing and office locations throughout Vietnam. The ideal candidate will coordinate with architects, engineers, contractors, and stakeholders to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards. The candidate must also have experience negotiating real estate contracts with landlords and with shutting down sites. This role requires strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills, as well as a deep understanding of real estate development processes, construction management, and regulatory compliance. The Project Manager will be responsible for managing project schedules, budgets, and resources, as well as identifying and mitigating risks throughout the project lifecycle. Key duties include preparing project plans, tracking progress, resolving issues, and reporting to senior management. The successful candidate will have experience managing multiple projects simultaneously, negotiating contracts, and working with cross-functional teams. Familiarity with local zoning laws, permitting processes, and sustainability practices is highly desirable. The Project Manager will also be expected to foster positive relationships with internal clients and vendors, ensuring that all parties are informed and engaged throughout the project. This position offers the opportunity to work on a variety of projects including real estate, business-driven project development, budget management, utility optimization, business continuity planning, construction project management, strategic planning, and local facilities work standardization practices and KPI’s.

Responsibilities

• Work in a matrixed organization with responsibility to both the corporate functional leader and the region’s business leaders.
• Support local Facility leaders and manage diverse teams including both internal stakeholders and external consultants, vendors, contractors and other resources.
• Coordinate and develop project specifications, estimate cost and resources, hire supporting vendors and contractors, manage construction activity, and oversee schedules and budgets.
• Outstanding communication skills are required. Must be experienced in compiling and presenting capital project updates to functional and business leadership in the provided standardized formats.
• Must maintain facilities footprint metrics for the full region according to the corporate standards and report those metrics regularly to the worldwide head of facilities.
• Support local facility leaders to plan, budget, and schedule facility modifications, including estimates on equipment, labor, materials and other related costs.
• Maintain Confidentiality as this position has access to technical processes and equipment as well as certain strategic and business plans.
• Identify opportunities for synergistic savings without sacrificing quality of services or reliability of facilities operation.
• Continuously look for ways to improve optimization of facilities space, investment and utilities cost.
• Perform regular risk assessments and develop mitigation plans to ensure continuous, efficient operation of facilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree is required, preferably in Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Real Estate, or a related field.
• At least 15 years of experience in construction, real estate, or related industrial environments, preferably in semiconductor manufacturing, optics manufacturing, or manufacturing engineering settings.
• Typically requires 7+ years diversified leadership, planning, communication, organization and people motivation skill (or equivalent experience)
• Knowledge of applicable safety and environmental regulations.