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Director, Environmental Services-February 2024
Palo Alto
Feb 12, 2026
About Director, Environmental Services

  If you're ready to be part of our legacy of hope and innovation, we encourage you to take the first step and explore our current job openings. Your best is waiting to be discovered.

  Day - 08 Hour (United States of America)

  Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Stanford Health Care’s (SHC) mission is to heal humanity through science and compassion, one patient at a time. Environmental Services (EVS) interacts daily with patients, staff, and visitors, creating significant opportunities for impacting and enhancing the patient and employee experience. They are responsible for general aesthetics, cleaning, and waste streams and are essential to Infection Prevention initiatives for multiple buildings.

  This is a Stanford Health Care job.

  A Brief Overview

  The Director of Environmental Services is responsible for ensuring the hospital is maintained at the highest standard of cleanliness. Responsible for overseeing the development and deployment of Environmental Services programs, quality controls, daily management of cleaning, sanitizing, disinfecting and overall general aesthetics. Supports over 2M square feet including clinics, HAI/quality programs, Interventional Platforms, and all waste streams. Assures all regulatory standards are met. Directs business practices in order to uphold Stanford Health Care's mission and values. Develops new and emerging business solutions for sustained growth and effective day-to-day operations.

  Locations

  Stanford Health Care

  What you will do

  Provides team leadership by ensuring cohesiveness of the department and stakeholders

  Oversees expenditures to control department financials

  Directs daily property maintenance, housekeeping and custodial service operations in order to provide quality services

  Maintains and implements sanitary and safety conditions and training to adhere to auditing procedures and statutory regulations

  Accountable for the execution of product and service quality by maintaining highest level of delivery

  Promotes and supports workplace diversity initiatives

  Develops departmental budgets, utilizing trends and historical data

  Reviews budgets to submit variance reports as needed

  Prepares and maintains departmental reports and records, collecting statistical data for administrative and regulatory purposes

  Projects costs and revenues for budgeting purposes

  Provides leadership in implementing and sustaining initiatives to improve Patient Satisfaction

  Ensures active daily management of allocated labor budgets and adherence to position control standards are followed

  Education Qualifications

  Job requires a Bachelor’s degree in business administration, management, or a related field. Relevant experience in lieu of degree may be considered. Relevant experience in lieu of degree is in addition to the experience requirements for this position.Experience Qualifications

  Five plus (5+) years experience in Environmental Services leadership in healthcareRequired Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

  Technical expertise in Environmental Services for healthcare

  Familiar with the use of personal protective equipment, housekeeping supplies, OSHA standards, housekeeping equipment, DNV standard, Title 22 technical procedures

  Must have knowledge of Hazardous Waste Handling, Medical Waste Act or Linen Room management

  Proven effectiveness at influencing senior executives and delivering cross functional global initiatives

  Able to operate at a strategic, tactical and detailed analytical level

  Excellent communicator able to express themselves succinctly and with clarity

  Analytically strong and able to interpret data to develop concepts to drive improvement

  Resilient and able to deal with ambiguity, changing priorities and differing needs of the business

  Ability to work effectively cross functionally, bringing teams together to deliver shared goals

  Results-oriented “change agent” who can understand different points of view and effectively manage big-picture and tactical execution

  Ability to work in a fast-paced, hard-driving culture with a lean structure, demonstrated ability to success in and drive a culture of performance

  Ability to collaborate, motivate and lead globally through others and influence the achievement of common goals

  These principles apply to ALL employees:

  SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience

  Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford’s patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery.

  You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family’s perspective:

  Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care

  Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health

  Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

  #LI-KH1

  Equal Opportunity Employer Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination in all of its policies and practices, including the area of employment. Accordingly, SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or disability, or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders, members of all racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements.

  Base Pay Scale: Generally starting at $79.15 - $104.87 per hour

  The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.

  At Stanford Health Care, we seek to provide patients with the very best in diagnosis and treatment, with outstanding quality, compassion and coordination. With an unmatched track record of scientific discovery, technological innovation and translational medicine, Stanford Medicine physicians are pioneering leading edge therapies today that will change the way health care is delivered tomorrow.

  As part of our spirit of discovery, we also leverage our deep relationships with luminary Silicon Valley companies to develop new ways to deliver preeminent patient care.

  Learn about our awards (https://stanfordhealthcare.org/about-us/awards.html) and significant events (https://stanfordhealthcare.org/about-us/our-history.html) .

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