Vice President, Facilities Management Services

Company: Houston Methodist
Location: Houston
Posted on: June 1, 2025

Job Description:

At Houston Methodist, the Vice President (VP) Facilities Management Services (FMS) position is responsible for the strategic direction, operational oversight, and leadership for facilities management functions across the Houston Methodist system, ensuring the safety, reliability, and operational excellence of the physical environment while maintaining compliance with regulatory standards. This position serves as senior advisor for facility issues, provides leadership and direction to subordinate management and organizes the activities of the facilities management functions which are necessary for maintaining all physical structures, mechanical/electrical systems, central plants, and utilities in an operative and safe working condition. Additionally, the VP FMS position would ensure the standardization of physical environment safety programs, enhance the ability to negotiate system level contracts and create a comprehensive long-range infrastructure budget forecasting. This position drives operational initiatives, develops and implements policies, and assists the SVP in meeting or exceeding strategic financial and operational objectives.This position reports directly to Executive leadership in the organization and has responsibilities which include providing management and oversight of multiple areas and entities, as appropriate, and driving Houston Methodist's mission, vision, values and commitment to excellence. Demonstrating a proven record of successful strategic planning, developing long-range goals and implementation, this position manages a diverse, interprofessional team, collaborating with stakeholders to achieve mutual goals. Directly and indirectly overseeing management staff with the goal of enhancing professional development and personal growth, this position forms and leads internal teams, providing training and mentorship as needed. This position collaborates with all senior leadership to meet the organization's objectives, ensuring operational initiatives are implemented, setting business goals, and solving internal issues when needed and is responsible for the assigned areas' policy and procedure development, revision, and implementation. This position is also accountable for employee engagement, adequate staffing levels, budget development and compliance, to ensure a safe and effective work environment. This position ensures compliance with ethical and legal business practices and accreditation/regulatory/government regulations.PEOPLE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Provides direction to management team to enable the effective and efficient completion of objectives. Gives timely guidance and feedback to direct report management to strengthen their specific knowledge/skill areas needed for progression. Holds direct reporting management team accountable for the development of staff to meet overall objectives in terms of quality, service and cost effectiveness.
• Identifies opportunities and takes action to build strategic relationships between one's area and other departments to achieve business goals. Works collaboratively with stakeholders to foster a climate of open communication and mutual problem-solving.
• Develops efficient organizational structures within scope of assignment. Provides leadership for management team to maintain a competent and engaged employee group and provides recognition/commendations to achieve desired outcomes. Drives initiatives to meet or exceed threshold goal for department turnover and/or system metrics on employee engagement indicators.
• Supports with the Senior Vice President of Construction, Facilities Design and Real Estate in aligning facilities management objectives with construction, design and real estate initiatives.SERVICE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
  • Develops and implements strategic and operational/high-level projects and processes. Sets clear goals, priorities and objectives for the direct report management team. Oversees multiple departments' operations and designated projects to ensure that goals or objectives are accomplished within the prescribed time frame, providing guidance to management team to ensure the best possible delivery of service and high customer/patient satisfaction.
  • Drives HM service standards and activities to impact system score for patient/customer-based satisfaction, through role modeling and fostering accountability. Responsible for the overall successful operation of the direct report management team.
  • Drives collaboration across the organization to identify needs and develop scalable solutions. Prioritizes objectives and implements strategies to achieve organization initiatives as part of the executive leadership team. Delegates responsibilities to direct report management, providing guidance and direction, as appropriate.
  • Oversees day-to-day operations of facilities management across all Houston Methodist inpatient hospital campus locations, MOB's and Corporate buildings ensuring optimal functioning of all physical plant, mechanical/electrical systems, utilities, central plants, and environmental systems.
  • Drives operational efficiencies, cost savings, and system-wide standardization of facilities practices and procedures.QUALITY/SAFETY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
    • Reviews levels of service and significant trends that impact the effectiveness of delivering patient care, critical operational objectives, or other key components within the organization. Ensures that management teams are conducting root cause analyses, as appropriate. Proactively guides management to identify prevention/risk avoidance opportunities and implements continuous improvement plans.
    • Monitors and ensures organizational compliance with federal, state and local safety and environmental regulations and standards as well as accreditation requirements. Ensures direct report management monitors and/or revises the departments' safety plan and/or any specific accreditation/regulatory required safety guidelines.
    • Proactively approaches the optimization of safe outcomes and information systems by monitoring, improving and enhancing operations, identifying solutions via collaboration. Oversees the implementation of process improvements, utilizing tools such as lean and change management principles. Role models situational awareness, using teachable moments to improve safety.
    • Directs and ensures the implementation of physical environment safety programs, maintaining compliance with regulatory and hospital accrediting agencies.
    • Oversees emergency preparedness planning, disaster response, and recovery efforts across all facilities.
    • Conducts regular audits, inspections, and assessments to ensure a safe, functional, and compliant environment of care.FINANCE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
      • Ensures departments' annual operational and routine capital budgets align with organization's strategic plan and consistent with executive leadership, System CFO and Corporate guidelines. Uses benchmark data to support performance, costs, and return on investment.
      • Drives the maximization of efficiency and productivity. Leverages relationships with vendors and partners to obtain contracts that support cost-efficient operations and maintenance.
      • Allocates financial, information, and human capital for improvement activities, ensuring efficient delivery of cost-effective and efficient services to patients, physicians, and hospital departments. Educates patient care team leaders on financial implications of patient care decisions.
      • Provides oversite of facilities management budgets, including operational expenses, maintenance, and long-range infrastructure improvement projects.
      • Provides multi-year capital forecasts of infrastructure needs across the hospitals as infrastructure ages to ensure high reliability of operations.
      • Analyzes financial performance and identify cost-saving opportunities while maintaining high standards of quality and safety.GROWTH/INNOVATION ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
        • Develops long-range goals and strategic plans. Deploys data and research to drive cross-business organization prioritization.
        • Maintains acute awareness of market and industry trends. Implements innovative solutions for practice or workflow changes to improve system operations. Represents HM at community or professional organization meetings.
        • Drives change initiatives, maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment; adjusts effectively to work within new work structures, processes, requirements or cultures.
        • Initiates and executes succession plans. Conducts conversations with direct report management on their My Development Plan (MDP).
        • Leads efforts to implement sustainability and energy efficiency programs, reducing the organization's environmental footprint and operating cost.This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; the employee will also perform other reasonably related business/job duties as assigned. Houston Methodist reserves the right to revise job duties and responsibilities as the need arises.EDUCATION
          • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Facilities Management, Business Administration, or related field
          • Master's degree in business management or related field preferredWORK EXPERIENCE
            • Ten years of directly related experience to include leading high-performing teams, seven years in a people management role; may consider current HM employee with six years of people management experience in healthcare
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