Health Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:          

Develop solutions to improve safety patient outcomes security and privacy efficiency and value. Analyze data apply system engineering methods to hospital operations identify inefficiencies and propose corrective actions or new processes to improve the overall operational and financial performance.  Incorporate humans in the systems design to ensure the implementation of solutions is achievable transforming lives across both campuses.  Work closely with partners to assure coordination between system and medical center efforts.  Specific responsibilities include:

• Work with colleagues to inform strategic plans by completing gap analyses of the differences between current and targeted performance and quality states and interpreting findings to provide recommendations for senior leadership.
• Participate in strategic planning discussions and contribute to decisionmaking processes by producing models and simulations that analyze actions and objectives to ensure plans meet the overall strategic plan goals.
• Evaluate data to predict the impact of strategy changes on the budget understand the causes of budget variances and identify opportunities for budget savings.
• Assist capital asset and infrastructure planning for optimal hospital operations.
• Support and advance patient care by applying healthcare system engineering principles to identify solutions to improve the quality of care patient throughput and value.
• Create monitoring metrics and tools to ensure compliance with recommended changes.
• Develop methods standards and cost analysis methods to promote efficient staff and facility utilization.
• Engage hospital stakeholders to create implementable solutions to bed capacity constraints OR throughput patient flow ambulatory access and inventory management.
• Using engineering principles develop simulations and validations to drive improvement initiatives focused on optimizing efficient and highquality clinical processes solving hospital throughput and utilization challenges and improving financial performance.
• Describe the requirements drivers functions components interdependencies risks and quality factors of various processes.
• Identify innovative operational efficiency concepts to improve the quality of care provider efficiency and service.
• Develop novel model simulations to understand areas for improvement and the impact of proposed process changes.
• Employ a proven systematic method for collecting analyzing and leveraging information to evaluate healthcare processes for effectiveness and efficiency.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify and develop actions to address process improvement opportunities.
• Prepare and present ideas to Senior Leadership team.
• Develop partnerships with medical ancillary and administrative staff to understand workflows and suggest new initiatives.
• Support operational managers and directors.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications :

Requirements

• Masters degree in Systems Engineering Industrial/Management Engineering or a related discipline.
• Three 3 years of experience with statistical analysis for informed decisionmaking identifying bottlenecks and recommending process improvements. 
• Two 2 years of experience using a systems engineering approach to conduct healthcare workplace operational efficiency projects and/or organizational studies to implement projects from research through to design development testing and maintenance.
• Two 2 years of experience applying Lean Management Systems continuous process improvement information systems and enterprise wide change management in healthcare.
• One 1 year of experience developing and distributing performance data reports dashboards and other key indicators.

Additional Information :

Salary Range:                $110000 to $125000 per year

Benefits:  Health vision dental and life insurance 403(b) retirement plan paid time off educational assistance employee assistance program and employee discounts.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime