Director of Facilities Management

Job overview

Director of Facilities Management in Palo Alto, CA. This is an onsite position with a salary range of $83.98 - $111.27 per hour. This role provides strategic and operational leadership to advance a safe, reliable, and healing environment of care, partnering with construction, engineering, and operational leaders to ensure seamless coordination and effective mitigation strategies.

What you'll do

• + Sets vision for and leads the management of the Facilities Management department at the Palo Alto hospital campus or the Property Facilities Management department at regional campuses and oversees all operational aspects of property / facilities management in a manner which protects, maintains and improves the value of the facilities.
• + Responsible for the environment of care and all of its major components: life safety, safety, security, hazardous materials and waste, emergency preparedness, medical equipment and utility systems.
• + Participates in strategic planning for facility reconfiguration and changes.
• + Directs and assures the efficient operation of day-to-day activities of the department, including hiring and development of staff. Ensures competency of all staff.
• + Leads performance improvement activities within the department and participates in C-I-Care and other enterprise-wide activities. Applies tools and techniques to continually improve the patient, provider and staff experience by providing and maintaining healthy, safe and appealing environments in a sustainable manner.
• + Develops, prepares and executes long range and annual strategic plans, budgets, business continuity, and assures compliance.
• + Develops and maintains department and enterprise policies and procedures, managing internal/external cross-functional project teams.
• + Leads interdisciplinary approaches to enterprise-generated and facility-centered initiatives. Facilitates effective communication among staff, physicians, patients, families and ancillary departments. Builds, develops and grows business relationships with stakeholders and vendors.
• + Partners and coordinates with appropriate departments concerning facility maintenance and construction projects, communicates with all affected parties especially business owners and end-users.
• + Reviews all project schedules to ensure achievement of project milestones and objectives. Monitors for compliance and/or variance. Reports on variance using established escalation structure.
• + Provides overall direction to ensure efficient, timely and cost-effective delivery of services including furniture configuration and relocation, facilities maintenance, groundskeeping and event set-up.
• + Ensures all project activities are conducted in compliance with University and Hospital policies related to: awarding of vendor contracts, purchase of materials and supplies, source of outside construction assistance, accounting of time and materials on projects and any possible conflict of interest.
• + Technical management of key service contracts including development, review and appropriate execution of service levels.
• + Assesses service contract performance, analyzes quotes, negotiates with vendors for best pricing and quality of purchase service. Assists in fair bidding processes.
• + Maintains continuous alignment with defined strategic business objectives in conjunction with leadership and Operations management.
• + Leads the implementation of projects as assigned by managing leader.

What we're looking for

Education

Bachelor's degree in a work-related discipline/field from an accredited college or university

Experience

Seven (7) years of progressively responsible and directly related work experience.

Skills & competencies

director facilities management

facilities management

healthcare operations

palo alto ca

full-time

day shift

onsite

stanford health care

leadership

management

operations

building management

california

About the employer

Stanford Health Care is hiring for this role. Industry: Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists). Sector: 62.