Oregon Rural Healthcare Support Services Leadership Opportunities

Rural Staffing Services • Oregon, OR

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

Oregon Rural Healthcare Support Services Leadership Opportunities Help Us Build a Better Way for Rural Healthcare. This application may connect you with the specific opportunity you were viewing, as well as other current or upcoming rural healthcare positions that align with your experience and goals. By joining the Rural Staffing Services Talent Network, you are helping us build a more thoughtful and connected approach to rural recruitment, one that allows experienced support services leaders and Oregon healthcare organizations to find one another more quickly when the right need arises. Every application helps strengthen a growing network of people who are willing to bring their experience, leadership, resourcefulness, and heart to rural communities. Explore Rural Healthcare Opportunities at RSSJobs.org. This application may connect you with the specific opportunity you were viewing, as well as other current or upcoming rural healthcare positions throughout Oregon that align with your experience and goals. Visit www.RSSJobs.org to explore additional rural healthcare opportunities and communities. Support services are essential to every part of patient care. These leaders help ensure healthcare facilities are safe, clean, prepared, supplied, maintained, and able to serve patients and employees every day. Their work may happen behind the scenes, but its impact is felt throughout the entire organization. In Oregon, support services leaders may also help organizations navigate distance, weather, wildfire impacts, vendor access, supply delays, aging infrastructure, workforce housing, utility concerns, and the challenges of maintaining facilities across large geographic regions. A delayed shipment, equipment failure, weather event, wildfire disruption, or transportation issue may affect whether a department can continue operating. The strongest support services leaders are practical, dependable, calm under pressure, collaborative, and committed to creating environments where patients, employees, families, and visitors feel safe and supported. They understand that reliable support services help protect patient access and keep essential healthcare available closer to home.

Requirements

• Progressive experience in healthcare facilities, environmental services, food and nutrition, supply chain, materials management, security, safety, emergency preparedness, logistics, or another support services area
• Previous leadership experience as a director, manager, supervisor, or comparable professional
• Strong knowledge of the regulations, safety standards, and operational requirements relevant to the position
• Experience managing teams, budgets, vendors, inventory, equipment, construction, or facilities
• Experience with emergency preparedness, life safety, infection-prevention support, or disaster response may be valuable
• The ability to prioritize competing needs and respond calmly to operational challenges
• Strong communication, organization, judgment, and problem-solving skills
• Experience working collaboratively with clinical, administrative, financial, and executive departments
• Experience supporting multiple facilities, remote locations, or geographically dispersed operations may be valuable
• Experience with rural hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals, FQHCs, public hospital districts, regional health systems, long-term care providers, or community healthcare organizations
• Relevant education, certification, or technical credentials based on the position
• A visible, dependable, practical, and service-focused leadership style

Nice To Haves

• Some opportunities may prefer credentials related to facilities management, safety, emergency preparedness, environmental services, food service, supply chain, construction, biomedical equipment, or another operational specialty.
• Specific education, certification, travel, call, and experience requirements will depend on the organization and role.

Responsibilities

• Providing operational leadership for facilities, environmental services, dietary, supply chain, security, transportation, or related departments
• Maintaining safe, clean, functional, and welcoming healthcare environments
• Managing preventive maintenance, repairs, utilities, infrastructure, and building operations
• Supporting life safety, emergency preparedness, disaster response, and regulatory readiness
• Leading environmental services, infection-prevention support, sanitation standards, and waste-management processes
• Overseeing food service, nutrition operations, food safety, and applicable regulatory requirements
• Managing purchasing, inventory, supplies, equipment, freight, shipping, and vendor relationships
• Planning for weather, transportation, wildfire, and supply-chain disruptions
• Supporting capital planning, renovations, construction, infrastructure improvements, and equipment replacement
• Managing department budgets, staffing, scheduling, productivity, and performance
• Recruiting, training, developing, and supporting employees
• Developing policies, procedures, workflows, emergency plans, and performance standards
• Preparing for inspections, surveys, audits, drills, and emergency exercises
• Collaborating with clinical, administrative, quality, infection prevention, finance, and executive leaders
• Supporting facilities or services across multiple communities, clinics, or locations
• Helping maintain essential operations during emergencies, severe weather, staffing shortages, equipment failures, wildfire impacts, or transportation delays
• Coordinating housing, transportation, fleet, or logistics support when part of the role
• Building relationships with local vendors, public agencies, contractors, and community organizations
• Identifying practical ways to improve efficiency, safety, reliability, and service quality
• Helping ensure the organization remains prepared, supplied, and operational every day

Benefits

• The schedule, compensation, relocation assistance, travel requirements, call expectations, reporting structure, departmental scope, and employment arrangement will be explained before you decide whether to move forward with a specific opportunity.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed