Job description
Director of Facilities Management
Looking for a team where you can bring your passion, strengths and your best self each day?
Our employees work as one team and aspire to deliver a personalized experience to our residents through collaboration and knowledge sharing of their expertise. We are looking for candidates at Lake Forest Place that like to lead by example creating a positive work environment and living community experience that inspires wellness, independence, joy and security for our residents and families.
We truly believe our people are our greatest asset at Lake Forest Place which has led our team members to consistently rate us as a great workplace in confidential engagement surveys and earning its excellent reputation today. We are more than just a career choice - join a community where you will be appreciated and given opportunities to grow your career and make a difference!
Benefits:
- Health Insurance: Medical PPO Plans
- Vision plan
- Long-term and short-term Disability plan
- Employee wellness program with medical benefit deduction incentives and cash bonuses!
- Confidential employee assistance program
- Generous Paid Time Off/PTO plan. It is a plan that rolls over year to year.
- Employee lounges and meal discount program.
- 403(b) retirement plan with employer match
- Scholarship programs including Tuition reimbursement
- Citizenship Funding Program
- On-site Fitness Centers staffed with certified personal trainers
- Shift and Weekend Differentials for eligible positions
Summary/Responsibilities:
To coordinate and supervised the functions of the Engineering, Maintenance, Grounds, Decorating, Housekeeping, Laundry, Security and Resident Services Departments.
- Working with the ED (Executive Director) will develop a campus capital budget aligned to support the campuses strategic and annual operating plans.
- Working with the ED will prepare departmental budgets that align with the campus and organizations annual operating plan.
- Campus responsibility for achieving the financial goals related to operating expense budgets.
- Oversees and holds financially accountable related operations staff.
- Utilize computerized cost reporting and maintenance systems.
- Approves orders for equipment and supplies as authorized.
- Maintains multi-year estimates of all equipment whose replacement cost is over $5,000.00, including year installed and annual repair costs.
Environmental Services Management
- Maintains systems, policies and procedures which insure regulatory compliance, resident and employee safety that result in high levels of resident satisfaction and quality.
- Systematically examines operational systems and productivity improvements through the use of continuous quality improvement.
- Participates in the campus employee orientation and educational program development, implementation and delivery.
- Ensures that all staff members of the Environmental Services Department are educated so that all policies and procedures are appropriately interpreted and administered by management staff and subordinates.
- Administers and directs programs to maintain buildings, grounds, and equipment and to procure or generate all utilities and their distribution systems; coordinates these activities with other departments to insure safe and efficient operation.
- Establishes and administers preventive maintenance program, analyzes costs and work schedules; sets priorities; expedites operations and repairs.
- Regularly inspects buildings and utility systems to determine need alterations and repairs.
- Is responsible for departmental personnel matters pertaining to the employment, training, termination, and grievance of employees.
- Is a member for Safety Committee and the Infection Control Committee, as needed.
- Accompanies appropriate state and local authorities inspecting buildings and utility systems.
Maintains data bases:
- All Federal, State, and local codes that apply to each building
- As-Builts and building specifications
- Warranties and maintenance instructions
- Maintains necessary licenses and certifications in assigned areas and adds licenses and certifications of staff where required.
- Insures the management of outside vendors and contractors is professional and in the best interest of Presbyterian Homes and residents. Monitors progress and quality of outside vendors and contractors and requires appropriate steps if performance is unsatisfactory.
- Coordinates and insures the Emergency Response and Disaster Response Plans are current, documented, distributed and education/training is conducted and documented.
- Accompanies appropriate state and local authorities inspecting buildings and utility systems.
- Works in a collaborative and cooperative manner with the Directors of Environmental Services throughout the Presbyterian Homes system.
- Conducts, at a minimum, weekly rounding of their respective area of responsibility (back of the house and front of the house) and documents observations/findings in a report distributed to appropriate management personnel.
- Conducts, at a minimum, annual Audits of the Housekeeping, Laundry and Maintenance Department using a prescribed format
Education: Engineering degree desirable but not required.
Qualifications: Two or three years managing facilities in health care facility. Ability to analyze, organize, and direct. Ability to comprehend range of technical subjects and coordination of details. Ability to make emergency decisions in respect to failure of plant equipment and utilities. Understanding of State, Federal and local codes.
About us
Presbyterian Homes is an independent, not-for-profit senior living care organization of Life Planning Communities offering peace of mind through full continuum of care - independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing and memory care. We welcome people from all backgrounds at our family of communities that has served the Chicago, Illinois area since 1904. Presbyterian Homes proudly serves older adults at Westminster Place and Ten Twenty Grove in Evanston, Lake Forest Place in Lake Forest, and The Moorings in Arlington Heights.
All Presbyterian Homes employees are required to be Up-to-Date (as defined by the CDC) with all recommended COVID-19 vaccination doses (including booster dose(s)), when eligible, unless a reasonable accommodation is requested in writing and approved. As a condition of employment, new hires are required prior to the first day of work to provide documented proof to Human Resources of being Up-to-Date or scheduled to be Up-to-Date within 30 days of becoming eligible or submit a completed Request for Accommodation form (for a medical or religious exemption to the COVID-19 vaccination requirement, with supporting documentation, where applicable) to Human Resources for consideration. As needed, Human Resources will engage the candidate in an interactive process to determine what, if any, reasonable accommodations might be available in accordance with applicable laws.
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Location: Presbyterian Homes ยท Maintenance Department
Schedule: Full Time, 1st, M-F
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