Mayo Clinic

ZRG Partners, LLC.; Rochester (MN); On-site; USD 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota seeks a Chief Facilities Officer to lead the design, operations, and innovation of all clinical and support facilities, aligning with Mayo Clinic's mission of category-of-one patient care, education, and research. Reporting to the Chief Administrative Officer, this executive shapes facilities planning, construction, safety, and operational initiatives while partnering with Bold.

Forward. Unbound.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree is required in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 10–15 years of progressive senior leadership experience in facilities operations, planning, engineering, construction, or infrastructure management in a large complex organization.
• Experience in an academic medical center, healthcare system, university, or similarly complex environment is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead facilities projects across Mayo Clinic, coordinating with sites and guiding implementation of Bold. Forward. strategy.
• Advance Bold. Forward. Unbound. through physical and digital strategies, including automation and AI, to enhance patient experience.
• Sponsor options in facilities to support novel care models and future technologies.
• Inspire staff and contribute to healthcare transformation through physical facilities.
• Promote cutting-edge smart technologies and evidence-based design principles to improve care delivery.
• Advise on prioritization and phasing of major building programs with executive teams.

Skills

Servant leader

Transformational leadership

Effective communicator

Senior stakeholder engagement

Education

Master's degree in healthcare administration, business administration, engineering, architecture, or a related field

Job description

ZRG has been engaged to recruit a Chief Facilities Officer for Mayo Clinic, the largest integrated, not-for-profit medical group practice in the world.

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Position Summary:

The Chief Facilities Officer reports to Mayo Clinic’s Chief Administrative Officer and is responsible for ensuring that the design, operations, and innovation of all clinical and support facilities align with Mayo Clinic’s mission of delivering Category-of-One patient care, education, and research, including a premier patient and staff experience. This individual provides executive oversight to facilities planning, construction, safety, and operational initiatives.

In partnership with site Bold. Forward. Unbound. teams overseeing more than $9 billion in investments, this individual supports the largest building program in Mayo Clinic history and coordinates across Mayo Clinic to share and scale best practices in creating innovative, high-performing spaces that integrate cutting-edge digital and physical capabilities.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Working with the relevant committees, provides leadership of facilities projects across Mayo Clinic, coordinating with sites, setting strategic direction, and supporting implementation of successful projects in advancement of Mayo Clinic’s Bold. Forward. strategy.
• Advances Bold. Forward. Unbound. by leading initiatives that incorporate physical and digital strategies, including automation and artificial intelligence, to create a seamless patient experience that further enables Category-of-One patient care.
• Provides leadership in enabling healthcare transformation by sponsoring optionality in facilities to support novel care models and future technologies.
• Participates in engaging and inspiring staff to contribute to healthcare transformation through physical facilities.
• Promotes implementation of cutting-edge smart technologies and evidence-based design principles to enhance care delivery.
• Advises the Executive Operations Team, and other committees such as the Board of Governors, when applicable, on prioritization and phasing of major building programs.
• Provides alignment of capital investment across all funding sources, including base and strategic funding.
• Participates in master planning and capital project planning processes to ensure alignment with future care delivery models.
• Partners with the Department of Development to support funding requests for major strategic projects.
• Collaborates on emergency preparedness planning, particularly in clinical areas affected by infrastructure, utilities, or building systems.
• Provides medical guidance during disaster planning, surge capacity initiatives, and facility-related clinical interruptions.
• Partners in the strategic planning and execution of facility upgrades and new construction projects, ensuring alignment with Bold. Forward. Unbound goals.
• Supports environmentally responsible facility operations aligned with institutional sustainability goals.
• Serves as a strong financial steward of Mayo Clinic.

Characteristics and Skills:

• Dedicated servant leader with the ability to connect with senior physician leaders, benefactors, and frontline staff.
• Credible leader with a demonstrated track record of driving transformation and improving culture, safety, team dynamics, and service excellence.
• Has a high institutional profile with proven leadership skills and is able to secure the support and endorsement of colleagues across Mayo Clinic.
• Effective communicator who is well versed in Mayo Clinic decision-making processes and able to partner and navigate collaboratively across Mayo Clinic.

About Client:

Mayo Clinic is the largest integrated, not-for-profit medical group practice in the world, with a mission to provide whole-person care through the integration of clinical practice, education, and research. Headquartered in Rochester, Minnesota, Mayo Clinic operates major campuses in Rochester, Scottsdale/Phoenix (Arizona), and Jacksonville (Florida), as well as Mayo Clinic Health System , a network of 16 hospitals and 45 multispecialty clinics serving communities across Minnesota and Wisconsin. The organization serves more than 1.3 million patients annually from all 50 states and over 140 countries and employs a workforce of nearly 85,000 staff.

Mayo Clinic has been named the World's Best Hospital by Newsweek for seven consecutive years and is consistently ranked in the top three across more specialties than any other health system in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.

Mayo Clinic's physical footprint is vast and diverse, encompassing academic medical centers, research facilities, clinical laboratories, parking structures, underground tunnel and skyway systems, logistics centers, and community-based health system campuses. The complexity of managing these environments, spanning acute care, surgical, diagnostic imaging, research, and administrative functions, demands facilities leadership of the highest caliber.

The organization has committed to ambitious sustainability goals, including a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions intensity and a 20% reduction in energy consumption over the next decade, signaling the central role that facilities strategy plays in Mayo Clinic's long-term mission.

Mission

Inspiring hope and promoting health through integrated clinical practice, education and research.

Vision

Transforming medicine to connect and cure as the global authority in the care of serious or complex disease.

Values

• Our institutional primary value: The needs of the patient come first.
• Our core values: Respect, integrity, compassion, healing, teamwork, innovation, excellence and stewardship.

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Requirements

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in healthcare administration, business administration, engineering, architecture, or a related field is required, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum of 10–15 years of progressive senior leadership experience in facilities operations, planning, engineering, construction, or infrastructure management within a large, complex organization.
• Experience in an academic medical center, healthcare system, university, or similarly complex environment strongly preferred.

Notice of Non-Discrimination:

Mayo Clinic complies with applicable federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, gender, marital status, sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, status with regard to public assistance, national origin, disability, or age in admission to, participation in, or receipt of the services and benefits under any of its programs and activities.