Admin Director- Clinical Engineering

Job Summary

CoxHealth South: 3801 S National Ave, Springfield, Missouri, United States of America, 65807

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Hours
Work Shift: Day Shift

CoxHealth is a leading healthcare system serving 25 counties across southwest Missouri and northern Arkansas. It includes six hospitals, five ERs, and over 80 clinics. CoxHealth has earned numerous honors for workplace excellence.

About the Role

The Administrative Director, Clinical Asset Management provides strategic and operational leadership for biomedical services, clinical engineering, medical equipment support, and technology lifecycle management across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Oversee teams, processes, vendors, and systems ensuring medical equipment is safe, reliable, available, and aligned with patient care needs.
• Unite biomedical operations, equipment support, service delivery, capital asset planning, regulatory readiness, and vendor performance under one strategy.
• Develop and execute plans that align with organizational priorities, improve equipment reliability, strengthen service responsiveness, support capital planning, and optimize clinical technology asset lifecycle management.
• Build trusted partnerships with clinical, operational, supply chain, finance, facilities, and technology stakeholders to ensure clinical engineering services support safe, efficient, and high-quality patient care.
• Collaborate extensively with peers across clinical, business, and operational areas to ensure the stability, safety, and success of clinical engineering services supporting patient care and organizational operations.

Requirements

• Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in healthcare administration, engineering, clinical engineering, biomedical technology, business, information technology, or a related leadership, clinical, or technical field.
• Required: Minimum of 5 years of progressive leadership or operational experience, preferably in a complex healthcare, technical services, clinical engineering, biomedical services, facilities, supply chain, or technology environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading teams, managing operational performance, overseeing budgets, improving service delivery, and partnering with clinical and administrative leaders.
• Preferred: Experience in biomedical services, clinical engineering, healthcare technology management, medical equipment planning, capital asset management, regulatory readiness, or vendor-managed service models.
• Experience supporting medical equipment lifecycle planning, preventive maintenance programs, equipment replacement planning, clinical technology standardization, and capital planning is strongly preferred.

Skills

• Ability to develop and execute operational strategies that align with organizational goals and improve service performance, reliability, safety, and user satisfaction.
• Proven leadership and communication skills, with the ability to motivate diverse technical teams and build a culture of accountability and service excellence.
• Strong operational management skills, including performance management, workflow optimization, issue escalation, prioritization, and continuous improvement.
• Strong understanding of healthcare operations and the importance of reliable medical equipment in supporting safe, efficient, and high-quality patient care.
• Knowledge of biomedical services, clinical engineering, medical equipment maintenance, and healthcare technology management preferred.
• Experience with capital asset planning, equipment lifecycle management, replacement planning, standardization, and financial stewardship preferred.
• Expertise in operational and financial management, including budgeting, forecasting, resource allocation, and expense management.
• Strong vendor management, contract oversight, service-level management, and performance accountability abilities.
• Knowledge of regulatory and accreditation expectations related to medical equipment safety, maintenance documentation, preventive maintenance, and equipment readiness preferred.
• Ability to use performance metrics, service data, asset data, and reporting tools to improve visibility, decision-making, and operational outcomes.
• Ability to balance strategic vision with hands-on operational oversight.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across clinical, business, operational, finance, supply chain, facilities, and technology functions.

Benefits

Medical, Vision, Dental, Retirement with Employer Match and more (20+ hrs/week)

For a comprehensive list of benefits, please click here: Benefits | CoxHealth