Director, Support Operations

10 Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Compensation and benefits package

Job summary

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta seeks a Director/Senior Director of Facilities to lead engineering, environmental services, and maintenance across multiple campuses. You will ensure regulatory compliance, drive safety and quality, and partner with executive leadership to deliver patient-centered facilities operations.

The role requires a strong background in facilities management, budget ownership, and team leadership within a hospital or health system, with a focus on continuous improvement

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• Strong communication, analytical, and leadership skills essential.
• Experience interfacing with senior executives, vendors, and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain operational structures across system campuses.
• Oversee day-to-day operations of facility engineering and property management.
• Ensure OSHA and Joint Commission compliance across sites.
• Oversee environment of care and life safety programs and audits.
• Review campus facility designs, construction, and capital plans for operational impact.
• Develop budgets and manage costs for assigned departments.
• Lead safety committees and drive safety programs across campuses.

Skills

Communication

Analytical skills

Executive communication

Data interpretation

Problem solving

Process improvement

Project management

MS Office

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, property management, business management, or other related field

Tools

MS Office Suite

Visio

PowerPoint

Job description

Work Details

Shift Day: Monday-Friday.

Shift Start Time: 8:00 AM.

Shift End Time: 5:30 PM.

Worker Sub-Type: Regular

About Children’s

Children’s is one of the nation’s leading children’s hospitals. No matter the role, every member of our team is an essential part of our mission to make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

We’re committed to putting you first, and that commitment is at the heart of our company culture: People first. Children always.

Find your next career opportunity and make a difference doing what you love at Children’s.

Job Description

Responsible for providing and maintaining organized and effective facilities property management while supporting the goals, mission, vision, and values of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

Responsible for the environment of care, ensuring that all properties under the position’s purview operations are effective, efficient, and in compliance with all regulatory agencies.

To proactively support the efforts that ensure delivery of safe patient care and services and to promote a safe environment at Children's.

Lead engineering, environmental services, and maintenance efforts in all satellite locations.

Lead tenant activities to ensure coordination with building resources.

Provide oversight of outsourced environmental services at all urgent care centers.

Experience

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in facilities management, property management, or design industry
• 7 years of experience in a property management or supervisory capacity
• 5 years of experience in service-related areas focusing on quality improvement and customer service excellence
• Experience leading, mentoring, coaching, and developing teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, or similar field
• CHFM certification
• Experience in a hospital or health care facility, or managing large multi-tenant facilities

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, property management, business management, or other related field

Certification Summary

No professional certifications required

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organizational and analytical skills
• Ability to communicate and influence at senior executive levels effectively, and to interact with vendors, clients, and associates at all levels
• Ability to comprehend, analyze, and interpret data
• Ability to solve complex problems involving multiple scenarios and identify the best available option
• Able to create tools and processes which elevate team effectiveness, consistency, and client experience
• Able to organize, prioritize, lead, and execute numerus complex projects in parallel
• Proficient with MS Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio)

Job Responsibilities

• Establish, coordinate, and maintain operational structures within the system campuses, which promote multi-disciplinary collaborative process, participative involvement, and adequate resource allocation in maintaining excellence throughout the areas of facilities engineering.
• Oversee the day-to-day operations of support facility engineering and property management.
• Ensure compliance with all OSHA and Joint Commission requirements.
• Responsible for the oversight, maintenance, and management of respective Joint Commission chapters EOC (environment of care) and LS (life safety).
• Review and assist in the campus facility strategies and construction plans as they are designed, coordinated, and implemented to ensure no operational impact to the campus including accessibility of services, delivery of supplies and equipment and removal of waste.
• Participate in project design and implementation meetings to ensure system needs and system standards are included and maintained.
• Review project designs and construction to ensure quality and system maintainability and access.
• Manage engineering and property management staff reviews and coordination of capital project design, phasing, system tie-in, standards, and accessibility.
• Develop and manage budgets for assigned departments.
• Comply with all budgetary and fiscal goals in all departments under support services on the assigned sites or campuses.
• Provide functional oversight for the area of expertise, including, but not limited to policy and procedure development, assisting with staff development, tracking, and trending of events, and support of other campus directors.
• Develop, cultivate, and maintain a dynamic customer service philosophy, incorporating the mission, vision, and values of Children’s family-centered care with the facilities services division on the assigned site or campus.
• Develop, implement, and follow through with short- and long-range goals for the assigned site or campus that are consistent with Children’s mission, vision, and values.
• Provide expertise to the campus and system environment of care strategy to include membership on the Environment Safety Management Committee.
• Responsible for ensuring a strong continual readiness posture to meet all environmental regulatory requirements.
• Create maintain and update departmental safety program.
• Lead departmental Safety Council.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic covered by applicable law.

Location

Primary Location Address 1575 Northeast Expy NE

Job Family

Director/Senior Director

Company Overview

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta has been 100 percent committed to kids for more than 100 years. A not-for-profit organization, Children’s is dedicated to making kids better today and healthier tomorrow. With 3 hospitals, 20 neighborhood locations and a total of 673 beds, Children’s is the largest healthcare provider for children in Georgia and one of the largest pediatric clinical care providers in the country. Children’s offers access to more than 60 pediatric specialties and programs and is ranked among the top children’s hospitals in the country by U.S. News & World Report. Children’s has been recognized as a Fortune 100 Best Place to Work, a Best Place for Working Mothers, and as a top employer for diversity and millennials.

We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefit package that supports our mission, vision and values.

• We are proud to offer an array of programs and services to our employees that have distinguished us as a best place to work in the country.

Connect to our mission of making kids better today and healthier tomorrow. Have questions about the recruitment process? Check out What to Expect. https://careers.choa.org/lp/What%20to%20Expect/2895392d3ba166e6/?locale=en_US