Overview
**Description**
**Facilities Engineer – Providence St. Peter Hospital – Olympia, WA**
**SCHEDULE:** Full-Time position; Third shift/swing shift. Shift differential included in addition to base salary.
**Summary**
1. Monitors, operates, maintains and improves physical plant systems and equipment to ensure reliable, efficient, safe, clean and comfortable facility operation in support of patient care.
2. These systems include: heating, ventilating and air conditioning, steam and hot water generation, power generation, pumping, controls, transportation systems (elevators, pneumatic tube), medical and compressed gases, electrical and life safety (Fire Protection/Detection), fuel and water treatment.
3. Documents building operations, incidents and specific maintenance and repair activities – all in accordance with policies and/or applicable standards.
**Essential Functions**
+ Continuous monitoring of physical plant operation for efficiency, appropriate operating parameters (temperature, pressure, status), cleanliness, and safety. This includes visual inspection of all systems during each shift and use of centralized controls.
+ Perform adjustments to systems as necessary.
+ Perform testing, corrective and preventive maintenance of systems as assigned or as required.
+ Maintain shift log sheet, complete work orders and purchase request forms as required.
+ Analyze and report plant system failures or deviation from routine operation.
+ Test and monitor water chemistry for steam, heating and chilled water loops.
+ Maintain assigned mechanical rooms and service equipment in clean, well-maintained, safe and reliable condition.
+ Utilize equipment, supplies and repair parts as recommended by manufacturer, policy and plant practices.
+ Perform job duties in accordance with hospital policy, applicable safety and health regulatory standards.
+ Assist and coordinate authorized work of others.
+ Communicate assessment of physical plant operation.
+ Ensures respectful customer service.
+ Ability to troubleshoot system operating problems and return to proper operation with minimal impact to patient care.
+ Demonstrates maintenance and operation of mechanical valves, electrical disconnects, pneumatic and digital controls, variable frequency drives.
+ Able to work independently during shifts other than normal hours.
**Required Qualifications:**
+ Coursework/Training: Additional vocational training.
+ Hands-on experience of operation and maintenance of commercial heating and air conditioning systems.
**Why Join Providence?**
Our best-in-class benefits are uniquely designed to support you and your family in staying well, growing professionally, and achieving financial security. We take care of you, so you can focus on delivering our Mission of caring for everyone, especially the most vulnerable in our communities.
Accepting a new position at another facility that is part of the Providence family of organizations may change your current benefits. Changes in benefits, including paid time-off, happen for various reasons. These reasons can include changes of Legal Employer, FTE, Union, location, time-off plan policies, availability of health and welfare benefit plan offerings, and other various reasons.
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**About Providence**
At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of “Know me, care for me, ease my way.” Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we’ll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable.
The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.
Providence offers a comprehensive benefits package including a retirement 401(k) Savings Plan with employer matching, health care benefits (medical, dental, vision), life insurance, disability insurance, time off benefits (paid parental leave, vacations, holidays, health issues), voluntary benefits, well-being resources and much more. Learn more at providence.jobs/benefits.
**About the Team**
Providence has been serving the Pacific Northwest since 1856 when Mother Joseph and four other Sisters of Providence arrived in Vancouver, Washington Territory. Today, Providence is the largest health care provider in Washington located in communities large and small across the state. In western Washington, Providence provides care throughout the greater Puget Sound from Snohomish County to Lewis County.
Our award-winning and comprehensive medical centers are known for outstanding programs in cancer, cardiology, neurosciences, orthopedics, women’s services, emergency and trauma care, pediatrics and neonatal intensive care. Our not-for-profit network also provides a full spectrum of care with leading-edge diagnostics and treatment, outpatient health centers, physician groups and clinics, numerous outreach programs, and hospice and home care.
Providence is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to the principle that every workforce member has the right to work in surroundings that are free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, gender, disability, veteran, military status, religion, age, creed, national origin, sexual identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law. We believe diversity makes us stronger, so we are dedicated to shaping an inclusive workforce, learning from each other, and creating equal opportunities for advancement.
**Requsition ID:** 304518
**Company:** Providence Jobs
**Job Category:** Facilities Management
**Job Function:** Facilities
**Job Schedule:** Full time
**Job Shift:** Night
**Career Track:** Technical/Skilled Support
**Department:** 3030 PLANT OPERATIONS WA PSPH OLYMPIA MAIN LOWER LEVEL SOUTH
**Address:** WA Olympia 413 Lilly Rd NE
**Work Location:** Providence St Peter Hospital-Olympia
**Pay Range:** $31.88 – $39.81
The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.
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