Position Summary:
The Management Engineer I is responsible for executing Orlando Health’s labor resource management standards to ensure optimal staffing levels, cost-efficiency, and operational effectiveness. This position provides guidance, support, and analysis of the organization’s processes, functions, and activities related to forecasting and planning labor resource needs, productivity and labor spend management, labor resource staffing, labor specific operations improvement, and the establishment and maintenance of an agile workforce. Additionally, this position provides leadership and expertise in continuously educating and developing leaders across the organization regarding labor resource management. Collaborates with the labor management team, hospital executive leaders, and front-line management to achieve objectives.
Responsibilities:
- Executes Orlando Health's labor management strategy to achieve key business objectives and establishes specific productivity goals.
- Analyzes real-time and historical performance and identifies opportunities for improvement. Identifies and communicates real-time impact and forecasting needs.
- Develops methods for measuring outcomes against established targets.
- Oversees and improves daily operations, policies, systems, and procedures necessary to support labor management and system utilization goals, ensuring consistency across the organization.
- Continuously monitors productivity performance, ensuring delivery of consistent and accurate management reporting to accelerate decision making.
- Regularly holds meetings with hospital Chief Staffing Officers, balancing support and accountability to achieve system and hospital financial and operational goals.
- Directs standard training for tools that support labor management.
- Ensures department productivity targets support the hospital’s monthly budget.
- Actively participates in the annual budget process and implements changes as needed.
- Partners with hospital HR leaders on various personnel issues that impact labor spend.
- Develops and implements communication cadences to keep stakeholders informed of performance against service level, budget, and staffing needs. Oversees the position requisition and contract labor approval processes.
- Champions the Flexible Position Control process and helps establish FTE hire targets.
- Reviews productivity, turnover, and volume trending reports to ensure all other options have been exhausted before approving premium spend.
- Directs the standardization of operational policies and procedures across the organization as appropriate.
- Utilizes comparative market data to target performance improvement opportunities and cost efficiencies.
- Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state, and local standards.
- Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures.
Qualifications:
Education/Training
Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Business Management, or Healthcare.
Licensure/Certification
None.
Experience
- None.
- Completed an Industrial Engineering, Finance, or Healthcare Operations internship in the healthcare or service sectoris preferred