Manager - Facilities, Engineering and Maintenance

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.
• 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. Coordinate department's activities with those of other departments and agencies outside the hospital and promotes harmonious relations between them and his department.
• Administer and directs 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.
• 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

• Ability to read blueprints and specifications and to visualize installation.
• Ability to analyze, organize, and delegate work assignments.
• Ability to assume overall responsibility for engineering and maintenance of hospital utility services, buildings, and grounds.
• Ability to receive, comprehend, and conduct instructions; ability to work safely with equipment supplies, and materials; ability to comply with attendance requirements; ability to comply with Personnel policies.
• Must have a valid driver’s license.

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances

• Driver’s License
• ASHE CHFM certifications or similar is preferred
• Act 34