Rochester Regional Health · 3 weeks ago
Director, Facility Engineering
Unity Hospital
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$85K/yr - $130K/yr
7+ years expRochester Regional Health is a healthcare organization focused on providing quality services, and they are seeking a Director of Facility Engineering. This role is responsible for the maintenance and operations of hospital buildings and grounds, ensuring the comfort and safety of patients, visitors, and employees while managing departmental operations, budgets, and future planning.
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Responsibilities
Using content and intent of Health System and Departmental goals and objectives, and general background knowledge, delineates problems, formulates and analyzes options and then selects the appropriate responses or makes appropriate recommendations in a timely manner
Is responsible for ensuring that processes are thorough and logical, with rational, supportable conclusions regarding Facilities maintainability and Departmental personnel interactions
By analyzing past trends and assessing present conditions, is responsible for establishing methods or plans with timetables to anticipate future needs pertaining to: personnel — in goal setting, task assignment and evaluation; technical — with operation, maintenance, and improvements; departmental systems — for improvements in effectiveness and efficiency
Positions facilities engineering department to contribute to the health system plan
Develops and achieves departmental and Hospital goals
Works with Supervisors, assesses department goals by using performance and effectiveness criteria, reports progress or implements changes
Promotes Hospital's values by displaying tact and a helpful attitude toward guests so a favorable impression of Unity Health System is developed and maintained
Demonstrates courteous, helpful and positive attitude toward patients, physicians, internal customers and co—workers
Leads Department with respect to the values of openness, integrity, caring, respect and excellence
Responsible for short and long range budgets to ensure a safe and code-compliant environment for patients, staff and visitors using Joint Commission, OSHA, NYSDOH, NEW and other applicable codes
Responsible for correct prioritization of facility maintenance and repairs for building utilities, structures, power plants and grounds to ensure no interruption of patient care
Ensures that personnel responsible for repair and preventive maintenance are appropriately trained for their positions and have performance metrics in place that assure compliance with agreed upon plans
Responsible for allocating funding sources appropriately (department expense and capital budgets) and keeping spending within approved limits
Keep solid and open communications with hospital administrators and directors to ensure Facility Engineering is meeting health system needs
Work with Facility Engineering staff to resolve issues and problems and develop work plans to encourage high staff morale
Ensuring and monitor employee satisfaction & development
Responsible for Project management, works closely on a day to day basis with project management and long term facilities planning
Responsible for scope, design and implementation of infrastructure and other departmental projects
Prioritization of physical plant infrastructure needs is key to maintaining a safe and functional space for patients and staff and is essential for the long term viability of the buildings
Responsible for leased site maintenance for physician practices by working with the property management company
Respond to any complaints and ensures least cost for best value in maintenance and preventive maintenance contracts
Work with site managers to plan repairs to minimize response cost
Responsible for QA and safety metrics for department, Productivity, employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction metrics
Maintain the space allocation program for Unity and St. Mary’s hospitals
This includes a physical assessment of the appropriateness of the requested physical space as well as overriding health system priorities
Oversight of operations at two main hospital buildings and numerous smaller non-acute settings and two power plants (well over a million square feet of building space and 200 acres of property)
Responsible for monitoring the energy efficiency of the buildings responsible for and for developing and coordinating energy consumption and reduction initiatives and tracking the success of the same
Qualification
Required
Five to seven years of Facilities, Engineering experience
Seven years managerial experience and five years Hospital Acute Care operation managerial experience
Preferred
Bachelors Degree preferred
Experience with state department of health building codes preferred
Joint Commission experience preferred
Company
Rochester Regional Health
Rochester Regional Health provides integrated health services.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$15.6MKey Investors
New York State Department of HealthMother Cabrini
2025-12-12Grant· $15M
2024-02-27Grant· $0.6M
Leadership Team
Richard Davis
CEO
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