Facility Operations Associate Manager

Facility Operations Associate Manager – Banner Health

Location: Tucson, Arizona

Department: Fac Opns-Acad-Tucson-Corp

Shift: Day (7AM – 3:30PM, Monday‑Friday with two‑week on‑call rotation every 3 months)

Banner Health is seeking an Associate Manager to join the team at Banner University Medical Center Tucson. This dynamic role focuses on strengthening infrastructure reliability, maintaining a safe and welcoming environment for patients, and supporting ongoing accreditation readiness. The role covers several facilities in Southern Arizona.

• Hires, trains, and conducts performance evaluations, and directs the workflow for staff. Participates in the development and implementation of department goals and objectives. Ensures all goals and objectives are met and maintains department, system, regulatory, and compliance standards for all assigned responsibilities and equipment.
• Assists the Senior Manager or Area Director in working with department personnel on departmental budgetary planning and management for budgetary control, cost projections, and feasibility for all related activities and projects.
• Ensures regulatory compliance with work standards, codes, and safety regulations for each facility assigned. Develops and implements processes to maintain compliance in all regulatory and operational areas of responsibility.
• Evaluates and resolves complex utility infrastructure, personnel, facilities maintenance/repair, regulatory, and operational issues. Makes recommendations to department management on facility improvements and solutions.
• Interacts and collaborates extensively with facility leaders, medical staff, and department management to implement system, regulatory, facility, and departmental initiatives, needs, and goals. Supports and assists project management related to strategic and regulatory initiatives and operational objectives.
• Assists with facility and regulatory initiatives, application reviews, and beta testing of facility and regulatory management applications and processes. Conducts facility and regulatory vendor reviews and evaluates workflows. Provides recommendations for facility applications, vendor workflows, regulatory processes, and operational processes.
• Reviews all facility and regulatory documentation for accuracy, correct inspection frequency and completeness. Ensure that all documentation is uploaded into the CMMS and compliance manager software platforms as required for each facility assigned in a timely manner.
• Works independently and generally reports to an Area Senior Manager or Director. Develops and implements protocols for facility and regulatory compliance of all assigned areas of responsibility including infrastructure, utilities management, fire life safety, maintenance, and code compliance using sound independent decision making. This position ensures the operational integrity of assigned regulatory and facility responsibilities. Must be able to respond to rapidly changing and escalating emergent situations with the ability to lead, give direction quickly, and provide sound decision making in highly stressful situations.
  
  This position is accountable for decisions that impact an entire facility. The span of control is dependent on the situation and ranges from a single department to an entire facility. This position has defined control and responsibility of regulatory, operational, and capital budgetary responsibilities. (Individual regulatory budgetary responsibilities range from $1M - $13M/year. Individual capital budgetary responsibilities range from $250K - $10M/year).
  
  Customers for this position are any patient, visitor, staff, physician, or any individual that accesses or uses the facility.

• High school diploma/GED or equivalent.
• Three to five years of progressive experience maintaining facility services, fire/life safety equipment and programs and at least one year of leadership experience.
• Ability to read and interpret blueprints, specifications and possess a working knowledge of fire, life safety and building codes, materials and standards, regulatory agencies and requirements.
• Basic knowledge of computers, including standard office software programs.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills and basic mathematical skills.
• Must be able to read, understand and work from blueprints.
• Must possess a valid driver’s license and be eligible for coverage under the company auto insurance policy.

• Strongly prefer an associate’s degree in facility management or related field.
• Three or more years of previous supervisory experience.
• Certified Healthcare Facility Manager.
• Certified Facility Manager.
• Any applicable healthcare or industry related certifications or credentials.

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