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Director of Systems Maintenance - Columbia, MD

Compass Group

United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 11 Mar 2026

💰 $150,000/yr($130,000/yr – $150,000/yr)

About the role

Salary: $130,000.00 to $150,000.00

Other Forms of Compensation: 9% Yearly Director Bonus

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Crothall Healthcare, a Compass Healthcare company, provides specialized, high-quality, innovative, and responsive support services exclusively to the healthcare industry. Crothall serves many of the Top 100 Hospitals throughout its over 900 hospital partners across 46 states. Crothall has been recognized as one of Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work and Best Places to Work in Pennsylvania since 2013. Crothall has more than 32,000 team members, with core services include: Environmental Services, Patient Transportation, Patient Observation, Healthcare Facilities Management, Sterile Processing Services, and Ambulatory EVS. Learn more at www.Crothall.com.

Job Summary

Working as the Director of Systems Maintenance, you are responsible for the overall management of all central plant Operations & Maintenance activities within the healthcare environment. You plan, organize, and control functions and activities of all central plant services under the scope of the contract. You provide technical oversight of maintenance, repair, and replacement projects conducted by both in-house labor and contracted labor.

Responsibilities:

• Assess critical infrastructure throughout a health system and prioritize assets needing investment.
• Develop investment strategy across the mechanical portfolio within a health system. Determine allocation strategy for these critical assets
• Reviews and evaluates existing preventative maintenance program and provides completion metrics to leadership. Evaluates effectiveness of PM programs, PM procedures, and updates tasks as appropriate.
• Monitors flow and quality of work to assure timely completion of workload and adherence to facility’s standards and regulations
• Plans, coordinates, and monitors construction and development of physical facilities related to the central plant & HVAC infrastructure throughout the health system.
• Reviews, evaluates, and recommends approval of plans for construction related to the central plant infrastructure & HVAC infrastructure throughout the health system. Coordinates with engineers to provide facility input during design reviews and engineering assessments.
• Advises on structural changes and additions and/or modifications to buildings related to the central plant infrastructure & HVAC infrastructure throughout the health system.
• Interviews independent contractors to receive and analyze bids, including blueprint analysis of proposed changes related to the central plant infrastructure
• Maintains visibility of the system’s Building Automation System to verify equipment performance and assist O&M teams with troubleshooting

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (or related fields)
• Work history with planning, organizing, coordinating, and/or communicating programs, services, policies and/or procedures within the central plant.
• Work history with planning, organizing, coordinating, and/or communicating programs, services, policies and/or procedures within HVAC & Controls shops.
• Minimum of 3-5 years responsibility in central plant & HVAC operations
• Should have proficiency in CMMS Systems, Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook
• Building Automation System experience is preferred
• Ability to meet deadlines and make sound decisions, sometimes under stress
• Work whatever hours are necessary to maintain facility in a safe manner including nights and weekends
• Good physical condition and ability to operate departmental equipment

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