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Chief Engineer

Join Jamaica Hospital Medical Center

Jamaica Hospital Medical Center—one of America’s 100 Best Hospitals by Healthgrades—is a 384-bed, not-for-profit, fully accredited community teaching hospital serving Queens since 1891, where we started in just a four-bedroom house. Today, we deliver nationally recognized care in cardiology, stroke, oncology, imaging, and emergency medicine, and are New York State’s only Primary Heart Attack Center and the first Comprehensive Stroke Center.

With an expanded Level I Trauma Center, Pediatric Emergency Department, modern maternity services, and over 120,000 ER visits annually, we offer dynamic opportunities for professional growth, impact and clinical excellence. Through our affiliation with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the upcoming opening of our newly built, state-of-the-art Cancer Center, we continue to expand access to world-class care.

As a safety-net hospital, filling a void for the people in the community, we proudly serve all patients regardless of ability to pay. Join us during this exciting period of growth and help shape the future of healthcare.

Mission: To serve our patients and the community in a way that is second to none. 

Vision: To be the premier integrated healthcare delivery system by providing the highest quality, most cost-effective service, which is accessible and sensitive to all.

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Jamaica Hospital

Jamaica Hospital Medical Center a member of the Medisys Health Network is a 404 bed fully accredited community-based teaching hospital and Level I Trauma and Stroke Center. We are currently seeking an experienced  Chief Engineer with excellent leadership abilities to oversee multiple hospital projects.  Our ideal candidate will possess a High-Pressure Boiler license from the NYC Dept of Buildings. 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Chief Engineer is responsible for the entire Engineering Department, from approving project designs and assigning engineers and technicians to ensure that all safety and structural standards are met throughout the completion of each project. Setting long and short-term project goals, negotiating with vendors and clients, ensuring that projects stay within time and budgetary restraints.

 

OTHER DUTIES WILL INCLUDE:

  • Working with the design team to develop safe, efficient, and effective projects that will fall within the budget.
  • Evaluating and calculating project costs including material, labor, and time expended for each project.
  • Reviewing and negotiating contracts with vendors and clients to ensure project cost-effectiveness.
  • Collaborating and consulting with CEO or COO to approve designs and budgets and when needed make necessary adjustments.
  • Coordinating engineering teams, assigning and delegating short and long-term goals for successful completion of project plans.
  • Monitoring and reviewing safety standards to ensure worksite safety.
  • Reviewing safety standards for finished products.
  • Ensuring projects and undertakings stay on budget and within the projected time schedule.
  • Managing the engineering team and overseeing the training of new employees.
  • Allocating resources effectively including personnel, materials, and time.
  • Analyzing data and drafting reports for review.

                                                        

Requirements
  • 10 years of progressive leadership experience in a unionized hospital engineering/plant operations environment and the supervision of staff, construction, utilities, building, and maintenance of equipment.
  • Bachelor's degree preferred
  • NYC High-Pressure Boiler Operators License (REQUIRED)
  • NYC Refrigeration Machine Operators license is required.
  • Certified Energy Manager preferred.
  • Current knowledge of and ability to ensure compliance with all regulatory and professional standards of care which includes ASHRAE, ASHE.
  • Five years experience in the management of a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to include oversight of reports, staffing, and productivity for work order completion and Preventative Maintenance (PM) completion to meet the needs of the facility.
  • PC Proficiency in Excel, Word, and working knowledge of engineering apps required.

FOR IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION,

QUALIFIED CANDIDATES PLEASE FORWARD RESUME IN CONFIDENCE TO:

Kimberly Ryan, MS, HRM

Talent Aquisition/Human Resources

[email protected]

 

 

 

 
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