Director of Engineering- Plant Capital Project

Overview

Founded in 1967, ImageFIRST® is the largest and only national linen rental and laundry service specializing in the healthcare market. Acquired by private equity firm Calera Capital in 2018, ImageFIRST serves medical facilities nationwide providing linen, patient gowns, scrubs, and more while managing their clients’ linen inventory for cost management. As leaders in infection prevention, they currently own and operate the most HLAC-accredited facilities in the industry. With one of the highest customer retention rates in the industry – 97% – ImageFIRST is dedicated to improving patient satisfaction and making staff happy with our white glove service!

 

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Responsibilities & Qualifications

A Director of Engineering plays an active role all engineering activities and projects within their region including facility design, project development, planning, budgeting, and execution. Implements and maintains overall engineering objectives and initiatives. Hires, develops, and leads an engineering team. Additionally, a Director of Engineering oversees robust project management process and delivery timelines to keep projects on schedule and on budget. Director of Engineering manages subordinate staff in the day-to-day performance of their jobs. Ensures that project/region milestones/goals are met and adhering to approved budgets. Director of Engineering has full authority for personnel actions.

 

A Director of Engineering directs critical and high visibility projects for ImageFIRST, leading a team and ensuring that the expectations of the locations are met while keeping true to our Operating Principles. A Director of Engineering ensures impeccable planning and engineering services.

 

A Director of Engineering provides support to the field by:

• Developing capital budgets
• Developing capacity analyses,
• Leading Project Engineers to execute ImageFIRST’s capital plan
• Developing AutoCAD drawings
• Developing project scopes of work/ bid specs,
• Developing and managing project schedules,
• Developing and managing project budgets,
• Managing capital projects,
• Reviewing bid proposals,
• Reviewing MEP, architectural and civil drawings,
• Negotiating vendor and contractor pricing,
• Implementing best practice engineering methods,
• Providing technical guidance to engineering team and top management,
• Identifying and navigating organizational changes
• Other field support tasks as required including but not limited to process improvement services, utility management, wastewater permitting, etc.

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS:

• The qualified Director of Engineering will have excellent multi-disciplinary engineering skills and have exceptional leadership, communication, and project management skills.
• This position requires a self-starting, motivated person who possesses strong organizational skills, can work well independently, and has strong interpersonal skills for working with associates of ImageFIRST as well as vendor and contractor partners as part of an engineering team.

REQUIREMENTS:

 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to complete all the areas outlined for this position in a satisfactory manner. Listed below are the knowledge, skills and / or abilities necessary to meet the minimum job requirements. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

 

Education:

• Required: a BS in mechanical, electrical, or industrial engineering from an accredited college or university.
• Preferred: In addition to a BS, post-graduate courses in business discipline.

Experience:

• Required: 5-plus years working as a mechanical, electrical, or industrial engineer. Experience must include project management (projects greater than $500,000 in scope) for external clients.
• Preferred: Prefer previous experience in the laundry industry.

Licenses/Certification:

• Required: A clean valid license to drive an automobile.
• Preferred: Lean Six Sigma certification

Skills/Knowledge:

 

A Director of Engineering must think creatively and be able to develop process improvement plans and facility designs that will meet the expectations of field operations; must be able to develop good working relationships with the field locations, displaying willingness and an ability to communicate well with each location; must have good computer skills, being able to use CAD programs, MS Project, flow charting software, MS Word, and MS Excel, and must be able to write clear, concise sentences and paragraphs; must have strong multi-tasking abilitie