Manager, Facilities

Behind every great hospital is a team ensuring everything runs smoothly. As the Manager of Maintenance at UPMC Presbyterian, you’ll oversee critical areas like labs, patient rooms, and public spaces—ensuring they remain safe, functional, and supportive of excellent care. You’ll lead operations, coordinate contractors, and manage payroll, HR, and vendor relationships. Your work will directly support the healing environment patients and staff rely on every day.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee testing and training to ensure compliance with TJC, DOH, AAALAC, Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), DLAR, Department of Agriculture, etc., guidelines.
• Collaborate with various UPMC maintenance shops and departments (Infection Control, Environmental Health and Safety, Security, University of Pittsburgh Facilities, Corporate Real Estate, Construction Project Management, etc.) to ensure efficient use of manpower and materials and that projects, systems and equipment meet facility and/or departmental standards.
• Oversee department budget and purchasing, including supplies, equipment, construction projects and/or crews, and management of vendor contracts to achieve economic and efficient operations consistent with UPMC's missions, goals and objectives while maintaining the principles of cost containment.
• Effectively oversee an FTE staff to ensure continuous improvement in productivity and quality. Maintain an organizational structure appropriate to achieve the organizational objectives of the department while managing daily staffing requirements and schedules to ensure that daily work and special assignments are completed.
• Responsible for all facets of UPMC and University of Pittsburgh payroll procedures, including but not limited to: ensuring that employee hours worked, including overtime, are properly submitted according to deadline, ensure that contractual obligations are met, preparation and processing of employee records, submission of scheduled salary increases, and tracking of compensated absences.
• Assist in formulating and revising the department Policies and Procedures, as well as periodically analyzing standard operation procedures for potential improvement.
• Participate in negotiations of contractual agreements, as applicable, under the direction of the Assistant Vice President or his designee; responsible for its proper application and administration within the department, including seniority and overtime rotation.
• Inspect routinely all areas of responsibility and equipment operation for safety and housekeeping and implement corrective actions when necessary.
• Work with supervisors to bring personnel problems in their initial stages to a comprehensive solution to avoid major grievances: provide a forum for discussion and resolution of personnel problems to ensure positive and professional interaction; advise supervisor of either the resolution of the problem or the need for further investigation; direct, at the request of the Engineering and Maintenance Department, the hospital and the University, the investigation of continuing problems and use all necessary resources to follow through to a permanent solution.
• Serve as a liaison between UPMC's Facilities, Engineering and Maintenance Department and the University of Pittsburgh's Facilities Management Department as well as the Corporate Real Estate Department to oversee building systems and respond to tenant needs and concerns.
• Responsible for all personnel reporting to or through his/her direct reports, including recruitment, orientation, retention, performance appraisals, progressive discipline, and compliance with training and education requirements.