System Director of Biomedical Engineering

Position: System Director of Biomedical Engineering Reports To: System CEO Location: Corporate Office Johns Creek, Georgia Position Overview The System Director of Biomedical Engineering provides strategic and operational leadership for Tenor Health Foundation's biomedical engineering program across all hospitals, ambulatory facilities, and physician practices.

This leader is responsible for ensuring the safe, reliable, and cost-effective management of medical equipment throughout the system while standardizing biomedical operations, supporting acquisitions, reducing vendor costs and improving equipment lifecycle management.

The Director partners closely with Clinical Engineering, Information Technology, Clinical Operations, Supply Chain, Facilities, and executive leadership to ensure biomedical services support exceptional patient care and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities Develop and lead the system biomedical engineering strategy across all Tenor Health facilities.

Standardize biomedical engineering operations, policies, procedures, and performance metrics across all markets.

Direct all preventive maintenance, inspections, repairs, calibration, and regulatory compliance activities for medical equipment.

Develop and prioritize system-wide capital replacement plans, balancing patient safety, regulatory requirements, operational needs, and financial objectives across multiple hospitals and markets.

Lead biomedical integration efforts for newly acquired hospitals and physician practices, including equipment inventories, assessments, transition planning, and standardization of biomedical operations.

Identify opportunities to reduce operating costs through vendor consolidation, service contract optimization, equipment standardization, and increased in-house repair capabilities.

Partner with Supply Chain on equipment evaluations, purchasing decisions, and system standardization initiatives.

Collaborate with Information Technology to support connected medical devices, cybersecurity initiatives, and medical device integration with enterprise clinical systems and electronic medical records.

Ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local regulations, including Department of Health (DOH) requirements across multiple states, CMS, The Joint Commission, FDA, OSHA, NFPA, and other healthcare accreditation standards.

Develop system policies for medical equipment management, recalls, incident investigations, equipment utilization, and lifecycle management.

Establish key performance indicators and provide executive reporting on equipment uptime, service levels, capital utilization, operating costs, regulatory compliance, and operational performance.

Lead, develop, and mentor biomedical engineering leaders and technicians across the organization.

Participate in disaster preparedness, emergency response planning, and business continuity initiatives.

Support financial turnaround initiatives through disciplined asset management, strate...