Director, Facilities - Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware

Nemours; Wilmington (NC); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Nemours Children's Health is seeking a strategic Director of Facilities to lead strategy, operations, safety, and reliability of pediatric facilities. This role oversees critical infrastructure, life safety, regulatory readiness, capital planning, and a broad team across a 24/7 environment.

You will partner with executive leadership, clinical departments, and external partners to ensure uninterrupted operations and a safe, healing environment for children, families, and staff at multiple

Qualifications

• Five to seven years of progressive facilities leadership experience in an acute-care hospital environment.
• Strong knowledge of hospital regulatory standards, including The Joint Commission, CMS, NFPA, OSHA, life safety, and Environment of Care requirements.
• Demonstrated success managing complex facility systems, preventive and corrective maintenance programs, capital projects, budgets, and vendor relationships.
• Experience leading large, multidisciplinary teams with a focus on safety, accountability, service excellence, performance development, and continuous improvement.
• Bachelor's degree in Facilities Management, Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, or a related field required; advanced degree preferred.
• Basic Life Support certification and valid driver's license required; CHFM, CHC, CFM, CFPS, NFPA-related credentials, or accreditation survey experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership and day-to-day oversight for hospital facilities operations, maintenance, infrastructure, grounds, and building systems.
• Ensure safe, reliable operation of HVAC, electrical, plumbing, medical gas, emergency power, fire alarm, fire suppression, utility, and life-safety systems.
• Maintain continuous readiness for The Joint Commission, CMS, NFPA, OSHA, life safety, Environment of Care, and other regulatory requirements.
• Lead capital planning, infrastructure prioritization, vendor partnerships, construction and renovation projects, and a facilities operating budget exceeding $16 million annually.
• Develop and support a multidisciplinary team of managers, engineers, technicians, and support staff across a 24/7 operation.
• Serve as a trusted facilities leader and partner to executive leadership, clinical departments, regulatory agencies, architects, engineers, contractors, and hospital committees.

Skills

Facilities leadership

Regulatory compliance

Team leadership

Budget management

Facility systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Facilities Management

Engineering/Construction/Architecture/Healthcare Administration/Business Administration or related field

Job description

Director, Facilities - Nemours Children's Health

Nemours Children's Health is seeking a dynamic, mission-driven Director of Facilities to lead the strategy, operations, safety, and reliability of facilities across our Delaware Valley locations. This is a high-impact leadership opportunity for an experienced healthcare facilities leader who thrives in a complex, 24/7 acute-care environment and is passionate about creating safe, compliant, healing spaces for children, families, associates, and visitors.

Why Nemours?

At Nemours, facilities leadership is more than maintaining buildings - it is protecting the environment where exceptional pediatric care happens every day. As one of the nation's premier children's health systems, Nemours integrates clinical care, research, advocacy, education, and prevention to improve the health of children and help every child thrive.

In this role, you will lead critical infrastructure, life safety, regulatory readiness, capital planning, and team development for a large, sophisticated pediatric healthcare environment - helping ensure uninterrupted operations for patients and care teams.

What You'll Lead

• Provide strategic leadership and day-to-day oversight for hospital facilities operations, maintenance, infrastructure, grounds, and building systems.
• Ensure safe, reliable operation of HVAC, electrical, plumbing, medical gas, emergency power, fire alarm, fire suppression, utility, and life-safety systems.
• Maintain continuous readiness for The Joint Commission, CMS, NFPA, OSHA, life safety, Environment of Care, and other regulatory requirements.
• Lead capital planning, infrastructure prioritization, vendor partnerships, construction and renovation projects, and a facilities operating budget exceeding $16 million annually.
• Develop and support a multidisciplinary team of managers, engineers, technicians, and support staff across a 24/7 operation.
• Serve as a trusted facilities leader and partner to executive leadership, clinical departments, regulatory agencies, architects, engineers, contractors, and hospital committees.

What We're Looking For

• Five to seven years of progressive facilities leadership experience in an acute-care hospital environment.
• Strong knowledge of hospital regulatory standards, including The Joint Commission, CMS, NFPA, OSHA, life safety, and Environment of Care requirements.
• Demonstrated success managing complex facility systems, preventive and corrective maintenance programs, capital projects, budgets, and vendor relationships.
• Experience leading large, multidisciplinary teams with a focus on safety, accountability, service excellence, performance development, and continuous improvement.
• Bachelor's degree in Facilities Management, Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, or a related field required; advanced degree preferred.
• Basic Life Support certification and valid driver's license required; CHFM, CHC, CFM, CFPS, NFPA-related credentials, or accreditation survey experience preferred.

The Difference You'll Make

As Director of Facilities, your work will directly support patient safety, family experience, associate engagement, operational resilience, and regulatory excellence. You will help shape the future of Nemours' physical environment while leading the people, systems, and infrastructure that keep pediatric care moving forward.

Join Us

If you are a strategic, hands-on healthcare facilities leader who wants to make a meaningful impact in pediatric health, we invite you to bring your expertise to Nemours Children's Health.

About Us

Nemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized pediatric health system serving more than 1.7 million patient encounters each year. We deliver care across six states through two freestanding children's hospitals - Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida - along with a network of more than 80 primary, urgent, and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospital partnerships.

Backed by the Nemours Foundation and Alfred I. duPont Trust, our $1.7B nonprofit system is dedicated to improving children's health through clinical care, research, education, advocacy, and prevention. Our Whole Child Health approach focuses equally on prevention and treatment, partnering with communities to help every child thrive.

Inclusion and belonging guide our strategy and growth. We are committed to culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and fostering an environment where every associate, patient, and family feels supported and valued.

Learn more at Nemours.org .