CORPORATE DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING SERVICES

Job Description

Job Description

Corporate Director, Engineering – Hickory Treatment Centers

Department: Operation

Reports To : Vice President of Field Operations

Direct Reports : Regional Coordinator/s, Engineering

The Corporate Director, Engineering provides enterprise-level leadership for facility operations, maintenance, life safety, engineering, physical plant performance, environmental safety, and capital infrastructure across the organization’s behavioral health facilities. This role ensures that all buildings, systems, equipment, grounds, and physical environments are safe, compliant, therapeutic, and operationally reliable.

The Corporate Director partners with executive leadership, facility administrators, clinical operations, nursing, compliance, quality, finance, and external vendors to maintain high-performing physical plant operations across inpatient psychiatric, residential substance use disorder, outpatient, and other behavioral health service lines.

Hickory Recovery is setting the benchmark in mental health care, especially for those facing acute challenges or dealing with co-occurring disorders. Our focus is on

• Delivering personalized, top tier care that fosters healing and improves wellbeing
• Ensuring every individual has access to the best possible support and treatment

To provide high quality, acute care for adults struggling with mental health issues or mental health co-occurring disorders. It’s Hickory’s primary goal to offer expert treatment for all we serve.

• 401k
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• PTO
• Vision insurance
• Career development
• Mental health days
• Holiday pay

• Bachelor’s degree in facilities management, engineering, construction management, business, healthcare administration, or related field preferred; equivalent experience may be considered.
• 7+ years of facilities, engineering, maintenance, construction, or physical plant leadership experience.
• Multi-site healthcare or behavioral health experience preferred.
• Knowledge of life safety, Environment of Care, preventive maintenance, emergency preparedness, and regulatory survey readiness.
• Experience managing budgets, vendors, capital projects, inspections, and corrective action plans.
• Behavioral health, inpatient psychiatry, residential SUD, crisis, or hospital facility experience preferred.
• Familiarity with ligature risk mitigation and behavioral health environmental safety standards.
• CHFM, CHSP, OSHA, NFPA, facilities, engineering, or construction-related certification preferred.
• Experience with Joint Commission, CMS, state licensing, and fire marshal inspections required.
• Ability to travel regularly to assigned facilities.

Operational Leadership & Oversight

• Lead multi-site engineering, maintenance, facilities, grounds, utilities, and physical plant operations
• Provide leadership, coaching, and accountability for corporate-based engineering and maintenance teams, and support facility-based Engineering Directors and Executive Directors/CEO’s
• Partner with operations, clinical, nursing, compliance, quality, and finance leaders to resolve facility-related risks and operational barriers

Regulatory Compliance & Safety

• Ensure compliance with life safety, fire safety, OSHA, CMS, Joint Commission, state licensing, and local code requirements
• Oversee Environment of Care, Life Safety, Emergency Management, and physical plant survey readiness
• Support ligature risk reduction, infection prevention, patient safety, staff safety, and therapeutic environment standards

Preventive Maintenance & Facility Standards

• Develop and maintain standardized preventive maintenance programs, inspection schedules, work order processes and documentation systems.
• Conduct routine facility assessments to identify safety risks, deferred maintenance, capital needs, and regulatory concerns.

Vendor, Contract, & Project Management

• Manage Vendor relationships, service contracts, construction partners, inspections, and corrective action plans
• Lead capital projects, renovations, expansions, and facility improvement initiatives
• Develop annual capital plans and long-range infrastructure priorities

Emergency Preparedness & Response

• Support emergency preparedness for power outages, severe weather, utility failures, evacuations, shelter-in-place, and other operational disruptions

Compensation

$105,000 – $125,000 annually

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