Manager, Clinical Engineering
- Employer
- University of Virginia
- Location
- Manassas, Virginia, United States of America
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- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
Lead Clinical Engineering Across a Growing Healthcare Network
Are you a healthcare technology leader who thrives on building high-performing teams, driving operational excellence, and creating meaningful impact across a health system?
UVA Health is seeking a Manager, Clinical Engineering to lead Clinical Engineering operations throughout our Community Health hospitals, outpatient facilities, procedural areas, imaging departments, and physician practices. This is a highly visible leadership opportunity for an experienced healthcare technology professional who is passionate about patient safety, operational reliability, staff development, and continuous improvement.
As the leader of Community Health Clinical Engineering, you will help shape the future of medical equipment management across a growing regional healthcare network while partnering closely with clinical, operational, and executive leaders.
Why Join UVA Health?
This position offers the opportunity to make a direct impact on healthcare delivery while working within one of the nation's leading academic health systems.
In this role, you will:
- Lead Clinical Engineering operations across multiple hospitals and ambulatory locations
- Influence equipment strategy, capital planning, and technology management decisions
- Partner directly with clinical, operational, and executive leadership
- Develop and mentor a team of talented technical professionals
- Support major growth, renovation, and expansion initiatives
- Leverage system-wide engineering, cybersecurity, integration, and project management resources
- Play a critical role in ensuring patient safety and operational readiness
About the Team
The Community Health Clinical Engineering team manages the medical equipment program across a diverse network of healthcare facilities.
Responsibilities include:
- Preventive and corrective maintenance programs
- Equipment inventory management
- Medical device recall management
- Regulatory compliance activities
- Vendor and service contract oversight
- Capital planning support
- Equipment lifecycle management
- Clinical customer support
The department is currently focused on improving regulatory readiness, strengthening equipment management processes, supporting facility expansion, enhancing customer service, and standardizing operations across the health system.
Position Summary
The Manager, Clinical Engineering provides operational leadership for Clinical Engineering services across Community Health facilities.
This role is responsible for ensuring medical equipment is safe, available, compliant, and properly maintained while supporting staff development, customer engagement, operational performance, and strategic growth initiatives.
The successful candidate will serve as a trusted partner to clinical, operational, and executive leaders while maintaining a strong focus on accountability, customer service, and team development.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Staff Development
- Lead, coach, and develop Clinical Engineering personnel
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and customer service
- Support employee engagement, retention, succession planning, and professional development
- Conduct performance management and staff coaching activities
Operational Excellence
- Monitor operational metrics, preventive maintenance completion, and work order performance
- Coordinate staffing and workload across multiple facilities
- Improve equipment inventory accuracy and asset management processes
- Ensure effective recall management and equipment tracking
Clinical & Customer Engagement
- Partner with hospital, physician practice, and operational leadership
- Address equipment concerns and customer service needs
- Build strong relationships across the Community Health network
- Serve as a strategic resource for healthcare technology management
Regulatory & Compliance Oversight
- Support Joint Commission, CMS, FDA, and regulatory readiness
- Ensure compliance with medical equipment management requirements
- Identify and mitigate operational and patient safety risks
- Support survey preparation and response activities
Financial & Strategic Planning
- Manage vendor relationships and service contracts
- Support capital equipment planning and replacement strategies
- Ensure responsible stewardship of departmental resources
- Identify opportunities for operational improvement and system growth
Projects & Expansion
- Support construction, renovation, and expansion projects
- Participate in technology implementation initiatives
- Assist with standardization efforts across Community Health and UVA Health
- Collaborate on long-term strategic planning efforts
What Success Looks Like
Within your first year, you will:
- Establish credibility with staff and healthcare leaders
- Improve accountability and operational consistency
- Strengthen preventive maintenance compliance
- Enhance equipment inventory management processes
- Improve equipment tracking and recall management
- Build strong partnerships across Community Health facilities
- Demonstrate effective financial stewardship
- Support employee development and retention
- Successfully implement operational improvements
- Help integrate Community Health operations with broader UVA Health Clinical Engineering initiatives
Qualifications
- Leadership and people-management experience
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills
- Experience managing multiple priorities and stakeholders
- Strong organizational and problem-solving abilities
- Experience working within healthcare operations
- Demonstrated ability to develop teams and hold others accountable
- Ability to build trust with clinical, operational, and executive leaders
Preferred Qualifications
- Clinical Engineering leadership experience
- Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) experience
- Hospital-based healthcare experience
- Experience managing technical service teams
- Knowledge of healthcare regulatory requirements including Joint Commission, CMS, and FDA standards
- Experience managing medical equipment programs
- Vendor and service contract management experience
- Budget and financial management experience
- CMMS experience
- Multi-site operational leadership experience
Preferred Certifications
- Certified Biomedical Equipment Technician (CBET)
- Certified Healthcare Technology Manager (CHTM)
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Other relevant leadership or project management certifications
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is a collaborative and highly accountable leader who understands that success comes through people, relationships, and execution.
They are:
- Comfortable making decisions in a fast-paced environment
- Skilled at building trust with both frontline staff and senior leaders
- Customer-service focused
- Operationally minded
- Organized and proactive
- Calm under pressure
- Passionate about developing others
- Motivated to improve systems and processes
Most importantly, they enjoy leading teams, solving complex challenges, and driving meaningful results.
What You Should Know
Full-Time, On-Site Leadership Position
- Full-time, 1.0 FTE
- 100% onsite
- Regular travel between Community Health facilities required
- Supports hospitals, clinics, procedural areas, imaging departments, and physician practices
- Availability for urgent operational escalations is expected when necessary
A Visible Leadership Role
This is not a desk-only position.
Successful candidates will spend significant time engaging directly with employees, customers, and healthcare leaders throughout the service area. The role requires balancing personnel management, customer expectations, operational performance, financial stewardship, and regulatory compliance.
Why This Role Stands Out
This is a unique opportunity to lead and grow a regional Clinical Engineering operation while helping shape the future of healthcare technology management within UVA Health.
You'll have the opportunity to:
- Build and develop a high-performing team
- Influence strategic technology decisions
- Partner with executive leadership
- Support healthcare growth initiatives
- Improve patient safety and equipment reliability
- Drive operational excellence across multiple facilities
- Leave a lasting impact on Community Health operations
If you're ready to take ownership of a growing Clinical Engineering program, lead exceptional teams, and help advance healthcare through technology, we encourage you to apply.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
Education: Bachelor’s Degree preferred
Experience: 4+ years relevant professional experience, to include 2+ years formal managerial experience preferred.
Licensure: Valid Virginia Driver’s License (VADL) required.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
This is primarily a sedentary job involving extensive use of desktop computers. The job does occasionally require traveling some distance to attend meetings, and programs.
The pay range for this role is $94,993.60 - $175,565.00 annually. Individual compensation will be determined by the selected candidate's qualifications, previous work experience, and/or education.Benefits- Comprehensive Benefits Package: Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Generous Paid Time Off
- Retirement Savings
- Long-term and Short-term Disability
- Health Saving Plans, and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Certification and Education Support
The University of Virginia is an equal opportunity employer. All interested persons are encouraged to apply, including veterans and individuals with disabilities. Learn more about UVA’s commitment to non-discrimination and equal opportunity employment.
Organization
In 1819, the University of Virginia established a new model for intellectual exchange and cross-disciplinary collaboration in higher education. Two hundred years later, as a major research institution, we continue to challenge conventions, lead with ingenuity and advance knowledge for the common good.
What began as an innovative idea has become one of the nation’s leading public research universities, with over 21,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students. UVA also has over 3,000 full-time faculty offering more than 400 degrees.
Each of the University’s eleven schools has its own distinctive mission, working together to garner consistently high rankings—including #2 Best Value Public College (Princeton Review, 2016), #3 Public University in the Nation (U.S. News & World Report, 2016), and #3 Best Value Among Public Colleges (Kiplinger’s, 2016).
As we invest in and strengthen our research capabilities, UVA seeks new faculty ready to uncover new insights, rewrite old rules and collaborate on intellectual discoveries.
RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS THAT CROSS DISCIPLINES
As an R1 institution, the University’s research centers, consortia and laboratories are on the leading edge of discovery and technology, offering collaborative spaces for students and faculty to solve global problems.
Our professors are recognized members of major national scholarly and professional organizations, including the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Our faculty’s engagement in interdisciplinary research is being facilitated by new research institutes specializing in everything from big data to brain functioning, and by cluster hires across schools.
NATIONALLY RANKED HEALTH SYSTEM
UVA is also home to a nationally renowned academic medical center and the UVA Health System, which serves a three-part mission to treat patients, conduct translational research and train medical practitioners in a wide variety of disciplines.
Established as the nation’s 10th medical school in 1825, the institution has since grown to include a 612-bed hospital and a Level I trauma center, nationally recognized cancer and heart centers, a Children’s Hospital, and primary and specialty clinics throughout Central Virginia.
The UVA Medical Center is consistently ranked among the nation’s best hospitals by the U.S. News & World Report magazine and has been named among the top 25 percent in seven specialties.
INSPIRING STUDENTS, INSPIRED TEACHING
The vast majority of UVA students come from the top 10% of their high school class, as well as from all 50 states, over 142 countries and a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. Despite their diversity, all UVA students share a love of learning and a drive to achieve.
One of the reasons students choose Virginia is our unique residential culture. At UVA, the community of students, faculty and staff personifies the Jeffersonian idea that living and learning are connected. The Academical Village was constructed to support a unique residential experience, with faculty living in the Pavilions, students occupying Lawn rooms and the world-famous Rotunda at its heart. The University’s residential culture continues to support this experience today—strengthened by students, faculty and staff rich in backgrounds, ideas and perspectives. Our unique culture is also paying dividends in innovation: UVA’s faculty have generated more than 130 patents since 2010.
Perhaps most importantly, faculty come to UVA knowing that instruction is as important as research, and they pride themselves on their many teaching awards. Our best professors look for ways to encourage, mentor and develop tomorrow’s leaders inside and outside the classroom.
LIFE IN CHARLOTTESVILLE
Living in Charlottesville you’ll find sophisticated restaurants, world-renowned wineries and breweries, cosmopolitan arts and music, friendly urban and suburban neighborhoods and a Piedmont landscape that has lured adventurous souls for centuries. No wonder the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research named Charlottesville the “happiest city in America” in 2014.
In addition to UVA and its health system, several major employers have facilities in Charlottesville, including State Farm, Northrop Grumman, the U.S. Department of Defense, GE and others. Charlottesville is also becoming a center for innovative start-up businesses. The University also actively helps spouses and partners of faculty members build their networks and pursue employment opportunities with a wide variety of area employers.
The University of Virginia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All interested persons are encouraged to apply including veterans and individuals with disabilities.
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- 434-985-4532
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2420 Old Ivy
Charlottesvle
Virginia
22911-7433
United States
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