General Mechanic Full Time Nights

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Elizabethtown (KY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition Assistance reimbursement

Paid Time Off

Maternity/Paternity Leave

Bereavement Leave (pets)

Employee Assistance Program

Retirement plans with company match

Job summary

Baptist Health Hardin in Kentucky is seeking an Engineer - Plant Engineering to maintain hospital facilities and infrastructure, including electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and general repairs. You will operate under Engineering leadership to ensure peak efficiency, compliance with regulatory standards, and integration of infection control into daily tasks.

The role requires a high school diploma and at least four years of experience in engineering or facilities maintenance.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum four years of experience in engineering or facilities maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Maintain hospital facilities including electrical, plumbing, HVAC systems.
• Follow CMMS work orders to communicate and manage assets.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory standards and infection control guidelines.

Skills

Electrical maintenance

Plumbing

HVAC

General repairs

Facilities maintenance

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Summary

This position will be responsible for routine maintenance of the hospital and other facilities operated by Baptist Health Hardin.

Job Description

Engineer - Plant Engineering

Full-time, night shift five days a week, 10:30 PM–7:00 AM. Rotates every 3rd weekend and holiday. 15% Shift differential.

This position demands a higher level of expertise and experience in various maintenance areas, including advanced electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and general repairs. Under the guidance of the Engineering leadership, the Engineer III ensures that our healthcare system's infrastructure operates at peak efficiency and meets all necessary regulations and standards. This role places patient care and infection control standards as a top priority, integrating these standards into all activities. The role may require working outside of regularly scheduled shifts, in inclement weather, or in situations of emergency. All roles within the Engineering department are required to adopt and utilize the CMMS work order system to effectively communicate across the organization and manage activities and assets.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Minimum of four (4) years of experience in an engineering, facilities maintenance, or related role required.

Benefits

• Tuition Assistance reimbursement program
• Paid Time Off available for use upon hire
• Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Retirement plans with company match

Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet or Pathway to Excellence designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law.

Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team.

Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.

NOTICE OF NONDISCRMISSION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056.