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The System Director of Facilities provides strategic, operational, regulatory, and financial leadership for facilities management across an integrated health system, including three hospital campuses and 15+ outpatient, physician practice, and support service locations. The Director is responsible for maintaining safe, compliant, efficient, standardized, and reliable physical environments of care through oversight of facility operations, infrastructure systems, construction and renovation projects, preventive maintenance, regulatory readiness, capital planning inputs, vendor performance, CMMS/data-driven performance management, and team leadership. This position partners closely with clinical, operational, finance, information systems, and executive leaders to align facilities work with enterprise systems, broader workflows, patient care priorities, workforce safety, service line growth, and long-term organizational stewardship.
Join us as we provide compassionate service and high-quality care to the Wabash Valley Communities. We are committed to helping you find a role that recognizes your interests, expertise, and talent and helping you achieve your long-term career goals and aspirations. At Union, you’ll experience an inclusive environment in which you are empowered to be your best self every day.
In addition to competitive pay, Union co-workers enjoy:
- Part-time and Full-time schedules
- Comprehensive Benefits
- Paid Time Off starting day one.
- Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250 each year.
- Career Paths
- Success Sharing
- 403b Retirement Employer Match.
- Much More!
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System Director of Facilities Details
Essential Job Duties:
- Provides system-level leadership for Facilities operations across all hospital campuses, ambulatory sites, outpatient service locations, physician practice settings, and related support facilities.
- Develops and executes a system-wide facilities strategy aligned with organizational mission, patient care needs, growth priorities, infrastructure reliability, regulatory requirements, and long-term capital planning.
- Establishes and maintains a system-wide facilities operating model that promotes standardization across hospital, ambulatory, outpatient, physician practice, and support service locations, including consistent workflows, service levels, documentation practices, escalation processes, and alignment with broader enterprise systems and clinical/operational workflows.
- Ensures safe, reliable, and compliant facility operations including building systems, utilities, HVAC, electrical, plumbing, medical gas, life safety systems, grounds, physical plant operations, preventive maintenance, emergency repairs, and infrastructure resiliency.
- Serves as the system's facilities leader for regulatory readiness and compliance, including applicable ACHC accreditation standards, CMS Conditions of Participation, NFPA, Life Safety Code, OSHA, EPA, state and local building codes, emergency management requirements, and other healthcare facilities regulations.
- Leads environment of care and life safety programs in partnership with Safety, Infection Prevention, Security, Emergency Management, Clinical Operations, and Quality teams to maintain a safe care environment for patients, visitors, physicians, and staff.
- Oversees approved capital construction, renovation, infrastructure, lifecycle replacement, and major maintenance projects from planning through completion, including scope development, budget oversight, contractor coordination, operational impact planning, infection control risk assessment support, safety planning, schedule management, execution accountability, and project closeout.
- Acts as the owner's representative for construction, remodeling, infrastructure replacement, and facility expansion projects across the health system.
- Prepares and advances prioritized, data-supported facilities capital requests for the Capital Committee, ensuring requests include clear rationale, risk assessment, lifecycle/replacement timing, regulatory or safety implications, operational impact, cost estimates, vendor considerations, and execution plans; executes approved projects within established scope, budget, timeline, and quality expectations.
- Has financial accountability for Facilities operating performance and capital planning inputs, including development and management of operating budgets, labor and overtime management, utility and service contract expense oversight, supply and equipment stewardship, and identification of opportunities to optimize vendor spend and reduce avoidable cost while maintaining safe and compliant operations.
- Owns the rigor of the facilities capital planning pipeline by maintaining a system-wide facilities condition assessment and capital renewal plan, including lifecycle replacement needs, infrastructure priorities, deferred maintenance, regulatory and life safety risks, utility resiliency, energy efficiency opportunities, equipment replacement, and risk-based prioritization across all sites.
- Leads preventive and corrective maintenance programs to improve uptime, reduce emergency repairs, extend asset life, and support continuous readiness across all clinical and non-clinical locations.
- Uses the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS), work order data, preventive maintenance records, inspection findings, asset inventories, project data, and financial information to establish and monitor key performance indicators for Facilities operations, including work order completion, preventive maintenance compliance, response times, regulatory findings, utility performance, project execution, budget performance, vendor performance, customer satisfaction, and safety metrics.
- Standardizes Facilities policies, procedures, documentation, CMMS use, asset data, preventive maintenance practices, reporting routines, and operating practices across hospital and ambulatory locations while allowing for site-specific regulatory, clinical, and operational needs.
- Provides leadership for facilities staffing and workforce development, including recruitment, onboarding, competency development, scheduling, performance management, succession planning, and accountability for supervisors, technicians, engineers, maintenance staff, and other assigned team members.
- Directs and evaluates external vendors, contractors, architects, engineers, consultants, and service providers, including contract negotiation, performance monitoring, safety compliance, cost control, and quality of work.
- Partners with clinical, operational, and administrative leaders to support service line growth, space planning, access initiatives, clinic operations, patient experience, and facility-related operational improvements.
- Ensures effective utility management and infrastructure reliability, including emergency power, steam/boiler systems where applicable, water systems, medical gas systems, HVAC systems, electrical distribution, fire protection systems, elevators, building automation systems, and other critical systems.
- Supports emergency preparedness and business continuity planning, including utility failure response, weather events, infrastructure emergencies, evacuation support, downtime planning, and coordination with system incident command processes.
- Promotes energy management, sustainability, and cost-reduction initiatives through utility monitoring, equipment optimization, conservation efforts, vendor management, and capital planning.
- Ensures accurate records and documentation related to inspections, preventive maintenance, regulatory compliance, construction projects, equipment inventories, permits, drawings, utility systems, warranties, and facility condition reports.
- Communicates facility risks, infrastructure priorities, capital pipeline recommendations, project status, budget needs, vendor performance, and operational issues to senior leadership and appropriate committees in a timely, clear, and data-supported manner, including bringing prioritized facilities capital requests to the Capital Committee for review and decision-making.
- Leads continuous improvement efforts to enhance safety, efficiency, service reliability, regulatory performance, staff engagement, and customer service across the Facilities function.
- Maintains strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external authorities, including hospital leadership, ambulatory leaders, medical staff, local code officials, inspectors, contractors, vendors, and regulatory agencies.
- Performs full personnel administrative responsibilities including hiring, coaching, evaluating, disciplining, developing, and, when necessary, terminating assigned staff.
- Models organizational values and leadership expectations by promoting collaboration, accountability, responsiveness, professionalism, transparency, and stewardship across the Facilities team.
- Performs other duties as assigned consistent with the scope and responsibility of a system-level Facilities leadership role.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, facilities management, construction management, business, healthcare administration, or a relevant field required; master's degree preferred.
- Certified Healthcare Facilities Manager (CHFM) through the American Hospital Association preferred.
- Progressively responsible healthcare facilities leadership experience required, preferably in an integrated health system with hospital and ambulatory operations.
- Knowledge of healthcare codes and standards, including life safety, environment of care, building systems, utility systems, and regulatory/accreditation requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to direct employees and outside contract firms across multiple sites.
- Ability to plan and carry out construction, repair, maintenance, lifecycle replacement, infrastructure renewal, and capital execution programs for the entire system's facilities portfolio.
- Knowledge of accounting principles, budgeting processes, capital planning, vendor spend management, service contracts, supplies, equipment, CMMS/data reporting, and operational planning.
- Knowledge of power and steam generation, water systems, water treatment, medical gas, and other piped gas systems associated with hospital operation preferred.
- Ability to negotiate, administer, and monitor service and repair contracts with outside firms.
- Must communicate effectively and work successfully with a wide variety of people, including physicians, leaders, staff, vendors, contractors, regulators, and community partners.
Please note that the salary information provided on the career site for this position opening may not necessarily reflect the accurate compensation associated with the role.
We encourage candidates to inquire further and engage in direct communication with Union Health for comprehensive salary details.
As an EOE/AA employer, Union Hospital, Inc. will not discriminate in its employment practices due to an applicant's age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran or disability status.
