Facilities Systems Engineer

Stanford Health Care • Menlo Park, CA

114d • $53 - $70 • Hybrid

About The Position

Shape the future performance of a world-class healthcare environment by ensuring the systems behind it run smarter, safer, and more reliably every day. As a Facilities Systems Engineer, you will connect design, operations, and strategy to optimize entire building lifecycles—not just individual components. This full-time, onsite role based at Haven Court (Palo Alto) partners across engineering disciplines to assess facility conditions, lead root cause investigations, and guide system performance from design through operations. You’ll spend time both analyzing data and engaging in the field, balancing technical depth with enterprise-wide impact, without direct people management responsibilities. Success in this role looks like leading assessments, influencing cross-functional decisions, and ensuring systems meet performance, safety, and regulatory expectations. 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. 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 and Operations. Facilities Engineering - Systems (FES) combines focuses on the design, integration, operation, and management of complex building systems throughout their life cycles. Its goal is to reduce the risk of system failures and improve overall facility performance. The department offers services such as Facility Condition Assessments, Root Cause Analysis for failures, Design Reviews, Predictive and Preventive Maintenance, Regulatory Compliance Reviews, and Project Scoping.

Requirements

• Expertise across building systems (HVAC, electrical, plumbing, controls)
• Strong systems thinking and lifecycle optimization mindset
• Data analysis, commissioning, and technical documentation skills
• Effective communication, diplomacy, and stakeholder influence
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (or equivalent experience)
• Four (4) years of related experience.
• Comprehensive understanding of relevant engineering principles, theories, concepts, and industry practices and standards and their application.
• Ability to work under minimal supervision.
• Ability to adapt to and deal with change and ambiguity.
• Ability to plan, organize, prioritize, work independently and meet deadlines.
• Ability to read and interpret AutoCad files, 3 D models and sketches.
• Ability to solve problems and identify solutions.
• Ability to work in a fast paced work environment.
• Ability to work well with individuals at all levels of the organization.
• Knowledge of computer systems and software used in functional area.
• Knowledge of local, state and federal regulatory requirements related to areas of functional responsibility.
• Know ledge of methods, tools, and equipment used in maintenance and repair.
• Familiarity with Building Management Systems; Utility and/or Electrical monitoring systems; SCADA systems; and Enterprise Asset Management System (BMS) or Computer Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) systems.
• Familiarity with the interdisciplinary nature of healthcare operations.
• CADL - California Drivers License - Valid And In State .

Nice To Haves

• healthcare or large facilities experience preferred
• Master of Science degree in a work-related discipline/field from an accredited college or university preferred.
• PE registration.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes preliminary engineering-design concepts of major projects. Uses knowledge of reliability engineering and other technologies to analyze preliminary plans and develop reliability engineering program to achieve reliability objectives. Provides input to a Risk Management Plan that will anticipate reliability-related, and non-reliability-related risksthat could adversely impact plant operation.
• Participates in the development of design and installation specifications along with commissioning plans. Participates in the development of criteria for and evaluation of equipment and technical MRO suppliers and technical maintenance service providers. Develops acceptance tests and inspection criteria.
• Participates in the final check out and commissioning of new equipment installations. This includes factory and site acceptance testing that will assure adherence to functional specifications.
• Professionally and systematically defines, designs, develops, monitors and refines an Asset Maintenance Plan that includes: Value-added preventive maintenance tasks. Effective utilization of predictive and other non-destructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems. Assessment of effective asset utilization; remaining useful life.
• Develops engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations. These problems include capacity, quality, cost or regulatory compliance issues. To fulfill this responsibility the Engineer applies: Data analysis techniques that can include: Statistical Process Control Reliability modeling and prediction Fault Tree Analysis. Weibull Tree Analysis. SixSigma (Ga) Methodology. Root-Cause and Root-Cause Failure Analysis (RCA, RCFA). Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS).
• Reviews subcontractors' proposals for reliability program and submits evaluation for decision.
• Reviews engineering specifications, proposing design modifications to improve reliability within cost and other performance requirements.
• Monitors failure data generated by Enterprise Asset Management System for assets to ascertain potential requirement for process improvement.
• Provides project management of projects as needed following Stanford Health Care Policies and procedures. Participates in planning, cost development and management, and scheduling for assigned projects.
• Assists in managing the 5 and 10 year capital plans for facilities for Stanford Health Care and creates individual project submissions as needed.
• May provide some technical guidance to less experienced design and engineering and/or maintenance personnel.

Benefits

• Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford’s patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery.
• You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family’s perspective: Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level