Director of Engineering & Maintenance

Company: Stamford American International Hospital
Location: Stanford
Posted on: March 4, 2026

Job Description:

If youre ready to be part of our legacy of hope and innovation, we encourage you to take the first step and explore our current job openings. Your best is waiting to be discovered. Day - 08 Hour (United States of America) Ready to make a meaningful impact? Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Stanford Health Care’s mission is to heal humanity through science and compassion, one patient at a time. We are seeking detail-oriented, proactive, and tech-savvy individuals who thrive in a fast-paced environment to join our team. If you’re good at what you do, you can work anywhere. If you’re the best at what you do, come work at Stanford Health Care. The Director of Facility Field Services (Engineering & Maintenance) leads engineering and maintenance operations across 40 facilities—including hospitals, clinics, and research labs—totaling approximately six million square feet. The director oversees a team of more than 100 tradespeople, planners, schedulers, and facility warehouse staff, ensuring uninterrupted performance of critical building systems and equipment to support patient care and research. Responsibilities include managing vendor contracts, driving a proactive, data-driven maintenance program, and delivering field data to inform asset lifecycle and replacement planning. The director partners with capital project teams on future construction and expansion, ensures regulatory compliance, and champions a strong culture of safety and quality. The Facilities Services division enhances health through leadership, collaboration, and innovation. Our team offers essential non-clinical support 24/7, ensuring safe operations and planning for future needs. We represent the intersection of planning, construction, general services, and facilities operations. Learn more about Facilities Services at: Facilities Services | Stanford Health Care The Facilities Infrastructure & Safety (FIS) business unit is vital in ensuring the safety, security, and operational integrity of Stanford Health Care facilities while also managing disaster preparedness and complex building systems to foster a secure healthcare environment. FIS is made up of multiple departments aligned in focus: Environmental Health & Safety, Facility Field Services, Protective Services, Security Services, Office of Emergency Management, Facilities Engineering - Systems, Operational Technology, Facilities Engineering- Infrastructure, Facilities Services Response Center, and Facilities Administration. Facility Field Services (FFS) maintains Stanford Health Care’s most critical healthcare environments 24/7, ensuring high-acuity spaces remain safe, reliable, and fully functional through expert preventive maintenance, rapid response, and regulatory compliance. If you are interested in joining Stanford Health Care, please read the job description below and apply online. This is a Stanford Health Care job. A Brief Overview The Director of Engineering & Maintenance (E&M) is responsible for directing, managing, planning, and developing the strategic direction of the Engineering & Maintenance department, with focus on providing excellent patient experience through service to the care providers, maintenance of facilities, construction, and activation of hospitals, ambulatory clinics and facilities. These responsibilities include planning, developing, directing, coordinating and evaluating the activities of the E&M department including collaboration and partnership with other Stanford Medicine departments. Manage personnel, per the policies, procedures, goals, mission, and vision of Stanford Medicine, and regulatory requirements of bodies such as The Joint Commission. Represents E&M efforts, opportunities, process improvements, and resource requirements to senior leadership. Locations Stanford Health Care What you will do Manage the collaboration with Construction, Facility Planning and other functions on activities related to the construction and activation of Hospitals/Ambulatory Clinics and Facilities to include but not be limited to standards development, design/submittal review, construction inspection, activation and E&M support as applicable. Act as primary Command Center representative in managing an event with the E&M Chief(s); with Stanford Medicine entities; the University; and with other departments as applicable. Ensures department is trained in response; assures all the applicable policies/procedures, documentation, maps in place for appropriate response. Develop and implements policies and procedures that guide and support the provision of services; ensure that policies and procedures are compatible with the function and goals of Stanford Medicine and which meet the external regulatory and statutory requirements. Direct the planning and transition to a sophisticated level of maintenance from preventive to predictive, which will also entail planning and participating in the requirements development of for the right technology; planning will also include development of how the staff members respond, troubleshoot, organize their work and their response. Develop, direct and maintain standards for quality and continuous improvement programs and initiatives, including those related to customer interface, operations, emergency response, finance and compliance with standards set by The Joint Commission and other regulatory guidelines. For strategic direction, management and improvement, create the metrics to monitor trends and patterns in the areas of (but not limited to) customer satisfaction; staff productivity; work volume; and regulatory compliance. Participates in compilation of benchmark data for Decision Support. Uses benchmark data for staffing, operations and finance direction and decisions. Use of metrics to optimize workload division between staff and vendors. Direct financial activities of the department to include developing the annual operating budget to include 3-5 year planning; preparing monthly and quarterly variance reports; proactively preparing other statistics and reporting as required to continuously improve operations; managing expenses; and participating in planning and developing the annual capital budget to include long term planning. Maintain fluency technology and operational advances in the industry and develops strong relationships with industry counterparts to facilitate learning of best practices. Strategic planning, oversight for staff training, education, workforce planning; engagement, daily active management. Planning and directing what skills are needed in-house versus what skills should come from vendors. Administrative organization of the department to include assuring performance-based service contracts in place; internal information organization for easy retrieval. This position may require on-call availability during non-standard hours, including nights, weekends, and holidays, to meet business needs and respond to emergencies as necessary. Education Qualifications Job requires a Bachelor’s degree in a work-related field/discipline from an accredited college or university. Relevant experience in lieu of degree may be considered. Relevant experience in lieu of degree is in addition to the experience requirements for this position. Experience Qualifications Seven (7) years of leadership experience in a facilities engineering, at least five (5) of those years in Hospital or Ambulatory Clinic environment. Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing. Ability to develop long-range business plans and strategies. Ability to manage complex projects and resources (people, costs, time). Ability to strategize, plan and implement change. Ability to understand, draft and negotiate contractual agreements. Ability to work effectively both as a team player and leader. Knowledge and understanding of financial and statistical activity reports. Knowledge of principles and practices of organization, administration, fiscal and personnel management. Experience with operationalizing new construction. Knowledge of and experience with Computerized Maintenance Management Applications. Knowledge of and experience with Building Automation Systems. Knowledge of and experience with inpatient/outpatient regulatory requirements. Knowledge of and experience with building and fire life safety codes. Knowledge of and experience with incident command emergency response. Experience with developing metrics and dashboards. Familiarity with Lean, JIT, or Six Sigma techniques. Ability to act as both the “thought-leader” and operational expert” around IT-Driven and IT-enabled process transformation. These principles apply to ALL employees: SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford’s patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery. You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family’s perspective: Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination LI-MH2 Equal Opportunity Employer Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination in all of its policies and practices, including the area of employment. Accordingly, SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or disability, or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders, members of all racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements. Base Pay Scale: Generally starting at $89.01 - $117.94 per hour The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.

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