Real Estate and Facilities Professional

**Ciena is committed to our people-first philosophy. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a personalized and flexible work environment that empowers an individual’s passions, growth, wellbeing and belonging. We’re a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.**

**Why Ciena**:

- We are big proponents of **life-work integration** and provide the flexibility and tools to make it a reality with remote work and potentially, part-time work.
- We believe an **inclusive, diverse, and barrier-free** work environment makes for empowered and committed employees.
- We recognize the importance of **well-being** and offer programs and benefits to support and sustain the mental and physical health of our employees and their families and also offer a variety of paid family leave programs.
- We are committed to **employee development**, offering tuition reimbursement and a variety of in-house learning and mentorship opportunities.
- We know that **financial security** is important. We offer competitive salaries and incentive programs, RSU’s (job level specific) and an employee share option purchase program.
- We realize **time away** to recharge is important. We offer flexible paid time off
- Great work deserves **recognition. **We have a robust recognition program, with ongoing and enhanced awards for exemplary performance.

**How You Will Contribute**:

- You will perform electrical, mechanical, security, and BAS infrastructure studies to ensure systems redundancy, reliability, and concurrent maintainability.
- You will develop and manage the implementation of reliability best practices and improvement projects, common processes/procedures and standardized reporting.
- You will afford oversight of critical high risk ‘Maintenance Window’ activities and perform quarterly reviews of the site’s loads.
- You will manage all aspects of major site projects or changes, including budget, consultant oversight, developing estimates, concepts and strategic project goals that are in line with site’s interests, ensuring system redundancy, reliability and concurrent maintainability.
- You will assist in developing budgets and estimates for the forward planning of site’s major projects, developing conceptual designs, performing feasibility studies and business/technical justifications.

**What Does Ciena Expect of You?**
- ** Initiative -** You’re a self-starter who works with limited direction, is committed to delivering against aggressive deadlines, and does whatever it takes to get the job done.
- ** Agility **- you thrive in an ambiguous environment, readily able to manage time-sensitive, competing and ever-changing priorities while maintaining a balanced and methodical approach to problem solving.
- ** Relationship Builder - **you possess the ability to build collaborative and trusted internal and external relationships at all levels of the organization and influence thinking.
- ** Communication expertise** - you have the ability to quickly understand requirements and tailor your message and ideas to the audience to ensure understanding and agreement.
- The flexibility to **work independently** and as **part of a broader team** - you thrive in a matrixed, multi-disciplinary team environment, but are comfortable working independently as required.

**The Must Haves**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering
- 7 to 10 years of experience in Corporate Real Estate
- Ability to work on-site at our Ottawa facility at least 3 days a week

**Assets**:

- Corporate Real Estate experience
- #LI-SG

**At Ciena, we are committed to building and fostering an environment in which our employees feel respected, valued, and heard. Ciena values the diversity of its workforce and respects its employees as individuals. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination.**

**If contacted in relation to a job opportunity, please advise Ciena of any accommodation measures you may require.