Facilities & Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

• Assist in determining the objectives of the department and the functions it performs.
• Subject to approval, determines department's organization, employee complement and budget.
• Enforce safely rules and regulations among department employees and maintain vigilance concerning fire and other hazards.
• Assures that all accidents are reported promptly; injured treated; causes investigated; corrective action taken and/or suitable recommendations made to avoid recurrence.
• Discuss with employees, their problems and concerns and assists in their resolution.
• Report identifiable hazards/unsafe conditions relating to equipment, the building, and the grounds of the hospital.
• Develop policy for exchanging hazard information with contractors and documents information exchange.
• Enforce safety rules and regulations among department employees and maintain vigilance concerning fire and other hazards.
• Assures that all accidents are reported promptly; injured treated; causes investigated; corrective action taken and/or suitable recommendations made to avoid recurrence.
• Recommend or (as arranged with superior) initiates, short and long-range programs.
• Recommend, initiate, or approve orders for space, material, equipment, and services necessary to conduct department's functions.
• Develop and ensure the Statement of Conditions is up to date in accordance with the policy.
• Cookordinate department's activities with those of other departments and agencies outside the hospital and promotes harmonious relations between them and his department.
• Administer and direct program involving maintenance of hospital buildings and grounds, equipment, air-conditioning and ventilating systems, and distribution lines for steam, gases, hot water, plumbing, electricity, refrigeration, and sanitation.
• Discuss, with employees, their problems and concerns and assists in their resolution in collaboration with HR as needed and as necessary.
• The position is directly responsible for establishing and maintaining all hospital and facilities FEM.
• This includes, but not limited to, hospital-wide preventive maintenance program, all powerhouse operations, all grounds maintenance, the repair of all facilities, as well as the management of in-house maintenance staff and responsibility for renovations and facelifts.
• The position is directly responsible for the management of all Facilities, Engineering and Maintenance information systems as required to meet The Joint Commission (TJC), etc.
• This includes, but is not limited to, maintenance information systems, preventive maintenance systems, building automated control systems, material management systems and financial systems.
• To develop and maintain an organizational structure appropriate to achieve the organizational objectives of the Facilities, Engineering and Maintenance Department.
• To achieve economic and efficient operations consistent with various hospitals' missions, goals and objectives maintaining the principles of cost containment.
• Prepare departmental budget estimates and controls costs.
• Order or approves orders for equipment and supplies.
• Estimate needs, study specifications, interview sales representatives, and determine type and manufacture best suited to the hospital's needs.
• May function as authorize safety and/or direct safety programs to detect, minimize and control fire and other hazards.
• Conduct required safety tasks for physical environment.

Qualifications

• Valid driver's license.