Supervisory Healthcare Engineer

The Hudson Valley Healthcare System is seeking a full-time Chief of Engineering (Supervisory Healthcare Engineer) for the Montrose and Castle Point campuses. This senior leader oversees engineering operations, capital projects, infrastructure, critical utilities, plant services, and regulatory compliance to ensure a safe, reliable environment that supports high-quality patient care. The Healthcare Engineer provides a safe, reliable, and precisely controlled operating environment for direct patient care. Healthcare Engineers serve as experts in the design, sustainment, and improvement of the medical care environment, including all hospital building features, automated building management and environmental control systems, and critical utility systems. Healthcare Engineers collaborate directly with executive leadership, medical staff, nursing staff, biomedical engineering, and other clinical personnel on the design and operation of the medical care environment. They manage capital asset programs and construction projects, and they educate and advise clinical staff on the safe use of critical building features, utility systems, and fire prevention systems as they relate to the environment of care. They ensure that the Healthcare System complies with a multitude of accreditation and regulatory requirements, including but not limited to those promulgated by the Joint Commission (TJC), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In summary, Healthcare Engineers apply engineering concepts and methodologies to enhance the delivery of healthcare by providing a technologically advanced, safe, and reliable medical care environment. This position serves as the Chief of Engineering Service with responsibility for the professional engineering programs such as Maintenance and Repair, Utility Plant Operations, the Energy Management and Conservation Program, Safety, Fire Prevention, Industrial Hygiene, Disaster Preparedness, Green Environmental Management, Vehicle Fleet, Grounds, Capital Planning, and the Construction Project Management section at a multi-faceted and affiliated VA Medical Center, including outlying Community Based Outpatient Clinics. This position requires competency in many aspects of managing VHA Healthcare Facility Engineering Programs, including interdisciplinary engineering coordination and integration; facility maintenance and operations management; construction development, management, and oversight; healthcare facility engineering program administration; healthcare regulatory, safety, and accreditation compliance; strategic planning; technical personnel supervision; and VA inter-administration stakeholder collaboration. This position is responsible for the planning, organizing, directing, evaluating, and management of Service Line programs, which includes setting qualitative and quantitative standards. The position develops and provides the Executive Leadership Team and clinical staff with information on the methods, techniques, and procedures necessary to integrate the Engineering, Maintenance, Capital Management, and other engineering programs into the mission of the Medical Center. This position also oversees the Joint Commission (JC) Environment of Care Programs for Utility Systems Management, Safety, Life Safety, and Medical Equipment Management for both the Medical Center and all Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs). The VA Medical Center has numerous affiliation agreements with academic institutions across the region. Active medical school affiliations, combined with the influx of medical students and residents, along with consulting and attending physicians who supervise them, create additional challenges in personnel and resource management. The rapid turnover of medical school affiliates and their unfamiliarity with government hospital operations make it especially critical for the Chief Engineer to support top management's efforts to establish stable and effective management systems that integrate these affiliates into the healthcare organization and its patient care programs. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position Functional Statement #: 25605F Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases. When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade). Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience. Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child. Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)