Job DescriptionStrength Through DiversityGround breaking science. Advancing medicine. Healing made personal.Roles & Responsibilities: The Director of Construction is responsible for managing the portfolio of short, mid and long-term construction projects for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS), including all public, academic and research facilities, and clinical space for the Mount Sinai Doctors Faculty Practice (MSDFP; FPA), both on campus and at off site facilities. The ISMMS Director of Construction will report directly to the Associate Dean for Design and Resource Management, and ultimately to the Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The current annual capital plan includes many projects at multiple sites around NYC, each of varying complexity. This is a very active and engaging position, interacting with knowledgeable and demanding clients, fulfilling state of the art technical requirements, reporting to senior leadership and managing the ISMMS Facilities Design and Construction Staff. The ISMMS Director will work closely with the Dean's Office, various Mount Sinai in-house departments, physicians, educators, administrators, senior leadership and executive staff. The ISMMS Director of Construction must oversee a dynamic portfolio of ISMMS projects from concept, through design and construction, while maintaining control over budget, schedule and client satisfaction.Responsibilities
- Oversee staff activities of 6-7 Project Managers and 1-2 Facilities Document Manager/Administrators
- Coordinate the activities of construction managers, contractors, vendors, architects, engineers and consultants engaged in planning, implementing and coordinating capital and construction projects
- Lead the development and implementation of policies and procedures for Facilities Design & Construction department including administrative policies and procedures, technical circulars and directives
- Develop, estimate and track project budgets, taking appropriate action when necessary to ensure adherence to budgetary limitations as well as to ensure projects stay on schedule.
- Review and approve all Contracts, Purchase Orders, Change Orders, Requisitions and Payments
- Interface with Mount Sinai Departments like IT, Legal, Purchasing, Compliance, Engineering, Environmental Health & Safety, Fire Safety, and others
- Oversee relocations, enabling, and backfilling clients into new space
- Ensure that staff follow all departmental policies and procedures as well as internal purchasing and compliance directives
- Develop and manage annual capital budget in collaboration with senior management; monitor expenses to ensure adequate control of expenditures and that department and all projects are completed within established budgets
- Negotiate with outside vendors and consultants regarding capital projects and purchasing matters
- Represent the department on various school and health system committees
- Maintain Project Status Report providing the Dean's Office, Associate Dean, CFO, FPA Administration with weekly updated project status reports, finance reports and strategy meetings with multiple ISMMS Deans, and FPA leadership
- Recruit, trains and evaluate performance of assigned staff
- Recommend and or perform disciplinary actions of assigned staff as required
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Architecture or Engineering. Masters degree preferred.
- 10 years professional experience as an Architect, Engineer or Construction Manager, including 3 years experience as Project Manager, preferred.
- Managing complex construction programs for a hospital, university or other similar institution
- Working in a construction Project Management capacity facilities management and administration
- Supervisory experience
- Experience with NYC codes and permitting processes
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Office
- Knowledge of Project Management systems that interface with IT and Finance (e-Builder preferred)
- Hands-on skills, including ability to manage project directly, when needed
- Excellent negotiation and problem resolution skills
- Highly organized
- Understands value of team approach and effectively uses teamwork to improve results
- Excellent written, oral and interpersonal skills
- Excellent time and project management skills
- Excellent financial management skills
About Us
Strength Through Diversity The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai's unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:
- Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
- Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
- Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.
At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally. Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history!
About the Mount Sinai Health System: Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time - discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients' medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high Honor Roll status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report's Best Children's Hospitals ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country's best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek's The World's Best Smart Hospitals ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally. The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.
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