Senior Director, Facilities Project Management

About the role

This is a newly created position to establish and oversee small project processes at Sutter Health. Small projects are nominally below $10M each and include but are not limited to renovations, refreshes, acquisitions, infrastructure upgrades, medical equipment replacements, and tenant improvements (administrative, non-acute and acute).

Responsibilities

• Develops, enforces and trains on the processes to be followed.
• Develops KPI's and dashboards to show performance and improvements.
• Coaches and develops the Facility Management, Planning and Project Delivery teams in best practices.
• Over time will likely have direct reports that assist in providing the necessary support and oversight to this program.

Requirements

• Equivalent experience will be accepted in lieu of the required degree or diploma.
• Bachelor's: Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management, or related field.
• 15 years recent relevant experience.

Skills and Knowledge

• Verbal and written communication skills, solid interpersonal and conflict resolution abilities and work group facilitation skills.
• Demonstrated human resource management skills including the ability to attract, retain, motivate, develop and manage performance of staff.
• Demonstrated negotiation skills balancing attention to details with an ability to operate strategically.
• Ability to work with and influence senior leaders across more than one entity, market or service line.
• Ability to support the development of business cases and work on solutions to complex business challenges.
• Leadership ability, including the management and delegation of appropriate tasks to technical and non-technical support staff.
• Consultative skills to gather needs and translate requests into potential solutions.
• Client relationship management skills to maintain positive relations between FPS and entity, market and system level senior leadership.
• Critical thinking and analytical skills to support complex problem solving within capital project delivery in support of market, service line and system strategies.
• Understanding of the major contract forms in capital project delivery, has significant experience with integrated project delivery such as design-build contracts and Sutter’s own integrated form of agreement.
• Familiarity with health care construction building codes and regulations, space programming, cost estimating, project approval processes, and design and construction processes.
• Knowledge includes the understanding of the facility design on staff performance and efficiencies that support the business goals of the institution, as well as current trends in healthcare facility development and facility designs impacting patient care and operating efficiency.
• Familiarity with the State of California building approval processes including Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD), the State Fire Marshall and municipal discretionary approvals, as well as The Joint Commission regulation.
• Familiarity with computer software programs such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, & Outlook.

Benefits

Yes