Machelle Vieux

As Associate Vice President for Facilities Services, Machelle Vieux, PE, leads a team of 300 employees across four units: Facilities Services Operations, Capital Project Delivery, Campus Planning and Sustainability, and Finance and Business Services.

Vieux has 30 years experience leading teams in facilities, utilities, and project management. Prior to arriving at the University of Chicago, she was the Director of Facilities and Operations at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory operated by Stanford University in Menlo Park, California. At SLAC she led a division of 200 personnel managing a $24 million budget for 350 real property assets on 426 acres. She was the project director of a utility infrastructure revitalization project to address aging infrastructure and modernization challenges. She volunteered in several groups supporting employees and students, including serving as the Executive Sponsor for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Plus Employee Resource Group (ERG); Executive Committee member for Science Accelerating Girls’ Engagement in STEM, and mentor for the Women at SLAC ERG. She was selected for DOE’s Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership Program and is a member of the Facility Advisory Committee for Sanford Underground Research Facility, in Lead, South Dakota.

Her experience includes senior facilities leadership roles as the Strategic National Accounts Director for ABM Industries, Santa Clara, California, and Director/Deputy Director of General Services for the County of San Luis Obispo, California. She served in the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps, retiring at the rank of Commander after 20 years of service. While serving as Director of Public Works at Naval Air Station, Lemoore, California, she led master planning efforts to home base the Navy’s Joint Strike Fighter and led a base-wide initiative to reduce energy and water usage receiving the Secretary of the Navy, Energy and Water Conservation Gold Level award. Additionally, she was the 2011 Naval Facilities Engineering Command Federal Military Engineer of the Year.

Vieux holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the University of Oklahoma and a master’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.