Director, Engineering & Maintenance

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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 Operations (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.

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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