Project Manager - Facilities

Stanford Health Care • Menlo Park, ME

11h • Onsite

About The Position

If you’re energized by work that keeps hospitals running safely behind the scenes, this role puts you where impact is immediate and meaningful. As a Project Manager, your decisions directly protect patients, staff, and critical care environments every day. In this role, you will manage infrastructure upgrades, repairs, and special projects from planning through closeout, partnering closely with engineering, operations, and clinical stakeholders to deliver safe, reliable outcomes in a highly regulated healthcare setting. You’ll succeed by balancing scope, schedule, and risk while keeping safety and continuity front and center. 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 – Infrastructure (FEI) is responsible for infrastructure upgrades, repairs, and special projects across SHC hospital, ambulatory, and administrative spaces. FEI ensures timely renewal of critical assets, maintaining reliable facilities that support high-quality care and efficient operations. The Project Manager (PM) leads key organization initiatives for Stanford Health Care. Project Managers are responsible for the coordination and completion of all aspects of project management on assigned projects, including, but not limited to, project scope, project schedule, project budget, project plans, facilitating meetings, documenting requirements, overseeing development, operational workflows, and implementation. Additionally, the Project Manager directs participants in compliance and regulatory alignment efforts. The Project Manager is responsible for identifying and resolving project issues, making sure the project progresses on schedule and on budget. The PM is the point of communication with stakeholders and is accountable for the project's success. The Project Manager must have strong communication skills in acting as the liaison between the project team, subcontractor, customer, key stakeholders, and senior leadership. The Project Manager has ultimate responsibility for project delivery. The Project Manager may direct the project/senior project coordinator (PC or Sr. PC) to expedite project related tasks.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a work-related discipline/field from an accredited college or university. Relevant experience in lieu of degree may be considered.
• 5 years of progressively responsible and related work experience
• Required Experience working in Healthcare and/or an Academic Medical Center.
• Ability to work independently, establish priorities, and make sound decisions while meeting time sensitive deadlines
• Ability to present facts and recommendations effectively in oral and written form
• Ability to identify issues, risks, and escalations, assemble data, validate conclusions, and incorporate resolutions
• Ability to gain consensus among disparate groups
• Ability to exercise judgment and demonstrate effectiveness in decision making occasions
• Ability to manage a significant workload, prioritize projects appropriately and work independently
• Advanced proficiency with MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio) and Microsoft SharePoint
• Advanced ability to identify, develop and quantify any required corrective action plans
• Experience with business case preparation and cost benefit analysis
• Demonstrated highly motivated self-starter
• Moderate proficiency with Microsoft Project, Primavera or other PPM software tools
• Familiarity with compliance (regulatory, OSHPD, Joint Commission, etc.) and governance issues
• Strong presentation and facilitation skills to communicate with and persuade a wide range of audiences
• Superior supervisory and matrix management skills and ability to oversee tasks delegated to others
• Serve as a change agent and transformational leader

Nice To Haves

• Program management leading mission-critical programs that involve significant organizational complexity
• Leading large teams in a matrix management environment.
• Developing, implementing, and monitoring process improvement initiatives.
• Developing, implementing, managing, and monitoring project management frameworks and methodologies.
• Developing and managing project budgets and process.
• Space planning, functional programming (architectural), or move management experience.
• PMP - Project Mgmt Professional preferred .

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple infrastructure projects across hospital, ambulatory, and administrative spaces
• Coordinate consultants, contractors, and internal partners through all project phases
• Monitor budgets, schedules, and risks to ensure on-time, compliant delivery
• Deliver concurrent various sized projects to successful completion.
• Follow FS&P standard work/processes, policies, and procedures, develop detailed project plans, and complete required project documentation.
• Coordinate with FS&P Senior leadership and BOSI manager on project budget targets, status, and resolution of related issues.
• Utilize designated project management tools to report project status, manage issues, identify risks and escalations.
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with project owners, operational leaders, business services, IT, vendors, and other project stakeholders.
• Support Senior Project Managers as back up on projects.
• Coordinate post-project review and lessons learned meetings following stabilization of projects.
• Provide leadership while the project coordinator positions the team and collaborates in project implementation.
• Balance both internal and external stakeholder interests to maintain alignment of the project outcomes.
• Incorporate Lean practices to effectively manage stakeholder and operational leader expectations.
• Understand customer requirements and manage the dynamics of these individuals.
• Actively facilitate project scope and collaboratively set the schedule, future state processes and operational workflows, leveraging standard team tools to drive projects from intake through successful completion, and ensure the project is completed in scope, on schedule, and within budget.
• Develop effective and attainable workplans.
• Identify and pursue opportunities to optimize effectiveness.
• Develop and administer project reporting systems.
• Prepare and present information concerning operational effectiveness.
• Organize and delegate work to achieve desired outcomes

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
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees