OR Nurse Manager

OR Nurse Manager Opportunity in Coastal Texas

Step into a high-impact perioperative leadership role where innovation, collaboration, and career growth shine bright.

As an OR Nurse Manager, join a healthcare organization with a mission-driven, patient-first culture, a strong reputation for clinical excellence and safety, and a forward-looking approach to peri-operative care that empowers nursing leadership to make measurable, real-time improvements across the operating room.

Within the Surgery service line, the Nurse Manager of Surgery will lead across the operating room, OR, and inpatient surgery settings inside within a 200+ bed specialty hospital dedicated to providing a focused and highly collaborative surgical environment. As the Operating Room Nurse Manager, oversee peri-operative operations supporting high-volume surgical procedures, with strong physician engagement and a team-centered culture. The hospital is recognized for its Level IV designation and offers exposure to complex and specialized cases. This Manager of Surgery role provides the autonomy to drive quality, patient safety, and team development while building your leadership career within a well-supported system.

Reporting to a seasoned Director of Peri-operative Services or Chief Nursing Officer, the OR Nurse Manager will be supported by charge nurses, clinical educators, CNOR-prepared leads, sterile processing partners, and highly engaged anesthesia and surgical teams. As the Operating Room Nurse Manager, responsibilities span block utilization and OR throughput, regulatory readiness and accreditation, staffing and scheduling, supply chain and capital planning, performance improvement, infection prevention, surgeon relations, onboarding and precepting, and elevating patient experience. Friendly nurses and a diverse inter professional teamincluding surgical technologists, anesthesia professionals, perioperative RNs, case management, and therapy colleaguescreate a welcoming culture where the Nurse Manager of Surgery can coach, inspire, and advance clinical excellence every day.

Life in Coastal Texas offers the OR Nurse Manager the best of beach-town relaxation and big-city energy, with year-round outdoor adventures like boating, fishing, kayaking, birding, and miles of Gulf Coast shoreline; the Operating Room Nurse Manager will enjoy a vibrant arts and music scene, food-forward culture blending Gulf seafood, Tex-Mex, and barbecue, plus family-friendly neighborhoods, strong schools and universities, and a diversified economy spanning healthcare, energy, logistics, and technology; cost of living and housing optionsfrom waterfront cottages to urban lofts and quiet suburbsfit every stage of life, while reliable highways, growing transit and bike paths, and proximity to major airports keep the Nurse Manager of Surgery connected; with no state income tax, rich community events and festivals, inclusive neighborhoods, and abundant parks and green spaces, Coastal Texas delivers an attractive lifestyle and long-term growth potential.

The OR Nurse Manager will be offered competitive compensation and leadership incentives, along with a full suite of health and retirement benefits, generous time off, tuition and certification support, relocation assistance where appropriate, and resources that promote wellbeing and long-term career mobility.