Healthcare Engineer- Senior Civil​/Environmental Systems Engineer

Job Title

The incumbent ensures that all site infrastructure, environmental compliance programs, domestic water systems, drainage systems, and utility distribution networks supporting patient care are engineered, maintained, and improved to meet applicable federal, state, and VA requirements.

• Serves as the station technical authority for civil, utility, and environmental systems, providing authoritative recommendations to leadership on infrastructure capacity, regulatory requirements, and capital project strategy impacting patient care, safety, and system resiliency.
• Leads engineering review, field oversight, code interpretation, commissioning, and evaluation of construction and infrastructure projects involving site conditions, roadways, utilities, stormwater systems, grading, and water systems.
• Serves as COR or engineering lead for civil and environmental components of construction contracts, prepares scopes of work and Independent Government Estimates (IGEs), leads design review, and provides commissioning acceptance criteria for infrastructure projects.
• Interprets and applies applicable standards including EPA, FDEP, ADA, IPC, IMC, FGI, NEPA, and VA Technical Information Library (TIL) requirements, and develops engineering determinations when standards require facility-specific technical adaptation.
• Leads facility-wide infrastructure condition assessments, utility capacity evaluation, risk analysis, and long-term planning recommendations to support resilience, redundancy, and mitigation of single points of failure.
• Represents the facility during internal and external regulatory reviews including those conducted by The Joint Commission, OIG, EPA, FDEP, and safety compliance entities.
• Provides technical direction and subject matter expertise to interdisciplinary stakeholders including engineering colleagues, maintenance trades, planners, architects, biomed, and environmental/safety program personnel without supervisory authority.

Manages critical facility environmental programs and utilities including:

• Stormwater and site drainage systems, including retention/detention management and compliance with environmental permits;
• Domestic and sanitary utility systems, including pressure, flow, backflow prevention, and system protection;
• Water Safety and Legionella risk management programs in coordination with Infection Prevention and Public Health;
• Erosion control, environmental permitting, hazardous materials control, spill response planning, and NEPA documentation, as applicable.