Director Plant Operations

Community:

Querencia at Barton Creek

Address:

2500 Barton Creek Blvd

Austin, Texas 78735

Pay Range

$92,100.00-$126,800.00+ Annual

This is an opportunity for a collaborative, hands-on leader who enjoys solving complex challenges, leading high-performing teams, and making a visible impact across an entire community. Whether your background comes from senior living, healthcare, hospitality, commercial facilities, or another complex facilities environment, if you're passionate about operational excellence, building strong teams, and delivering outstanding customer service, we want to meet you.

What your days look like

• Running the preventative maintenance program that keeps our residential areas, health center, common spaces, and all the systems behind them in great shape.

• Owning your operating and capital budgets: building the annual plan, forecasting, controlling costs, and sitting at the table for monthly reviews.

• Directing renovations and units turnfrom start to finish, including scope, timeline, budget, contractors and seeing them across the line.

• Bringing in and managing the right vendors: collecting bids, choosing partners, and holding everyone to a high standard for safety, quality, and schedule.

• Keeping us compliant, certified, and survey-ready year-round under all applicable codes

• Making sure resident and apartment requests are handled promptly, courteously, and with a smile through TELS

• Leading your team's safety, emergency preparedness, and required training, and keeping our emergency plans sharp and practiced.

• Building and mentoring a plant operations team people are proud to be part of with clear structure, real standards, and shared accountability.

• Being present in the community: joining resident, quality, and safety conversations that touch your department.

What you bring

• Experience leading plant operations, facilities management, engineering, or maintenance within healthcare, senior living, hospitality, commercial real estate, or other complex multi-building environments.

• Experienceleading facilities or plant operations, including supervising maintenance teams and managing outside vendors and contractors.

• Real technical range across building systems and trades, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, carpentry, life safety, plus solid construction and renovation project-management chops.

• A head for numbers, budgeting, capital planning, and disciplined cost control.

• A genuine, resident-first spirit and responsiveness to match.

• Experience in a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC), Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF), and knowledge of Life Safety Code and regulatory survey requirements; preferred but not required.

• Valid driver's license and the ability to travel as needed.

Join a mission-driven organization where your leadership is valued, your expertise makes a difference, and your career has room to grow.