Facilities Systems Engineer

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Day - 08 Hour (United States of America)

This is a Stanford Health Care job.

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 life cycles-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.

Key qualifications include:

* 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), with healthcare or large facilities experience preferred

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. Learn more about Facilities Services at:
Facilities Services | Stanford Health Care [Sell & Tel....05 1.docx | Word]

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.

If you are interested in joining Stanford Health Care, please read the job description below and apply online.

A Brief Overview

Provides technical facilities support, including analyzing engineering-design concepts and installation specifications. Works with SHC Project Engineering groups to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified equipment, processes, utilities, facilities controls and safety/security systems. Responsible for an Asset Management plan to monitor assets including buildings and equipment: applies value analysis to repair/replace/redesign and make/buy decisions for Capex and Opex decisions;

adheres to the Life Cycle Asset Management process.

Locations

Stanford Health Care

What you will do

* 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 andother non-destructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate…