PLANT OPERATIONS DIRECTOR

JOB DESCRIPTION:

To lead and supervise daily performance of staff engineers. Perform preventative maintenance and urgent, corrective routine repairs in electrical, mechanical, and HVAC equipment.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Provide directions to assigned personnel.
• Oversees the requisitioned, corrective, emergency and preventative maintenance of buildings, equipment and offsite facilities associated with the hospital.
• Reviews maintenance requests and schedules work tasks for staff engineers checking to see that they are properly executed within a reasonable length of time. This includes requisitioned, corrective and emergency maintenance. Makes periodic inspections, noting general condition regarding the needs and/or changes required to keep the hospital in safe, well-maintained condition.
• Orders selected stock items such as plumbing supplies, wood, electrical and equipment parts so as to maintain maximum efficiency levels at all times according to established procedures.
• Performs requisitioned, corrective, emergency and preventative maintenance of electrical distribution, mechanical, HVAC, power generation, plumbing and medical gas systems and building structures as required. Responsible for inspecting, calibrating, adjusting, lubricating and repairing or replacing components as necessary. Maintains records of maintenance repairs.
• Diagnoses system malfunctions on mechanical and electrical equipment. Repairs or replaces defective parts as necessary.
• Maintains records to ensure compliance with state, federal, and JCAHO regulations.
• Interprets hospital policies to workers and enforces safety regulations.
• Participates in performance improvement and information management activities. 

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:  

• Requires a minimum of 5 years of facilities management experience preferably in a healthcare organization with certifications as Certified Healthcare Facilities Manager or Degree in Industrial Maintenance.
• Ability to provide organizational skills to implement preventative maintenance and repair programs for a 186,000 square feet hospital, Home Health Agency Building, 2 Rural Health Clinics.
• Requires the ability to schedule, direct, and oversee the performance of the Facility Operations staff and to work with various departments throughout the facility in order to meet facility objectives.
• Requires reasonable 24/7 communication with the organizations staff and Administration.  Must be able to respond and to provide assistance involving facility systems failures, outages, and emergencies within the community that may affect the hospital.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; and talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: 

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee frequently works near moving mechanical parts. The employee occasionally works in high, precarious places, in outside weather conditions, and with explosives and is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, extreme cold, extreme heat, risk of electrical shock, risk of radiation and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.