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Director, Environmental Services

Northwell Health

New York, NYJob$91–158K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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Compensation
$91–158K/yr
Location
New York, NY
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Director of Environmental Services directs and organizes the Environmental Services and Linen Departments, including strategic planning, budgeting, and quality management. The role leads staff, develops operating goals and action plans, oversees policies and performance evaluation, and ensures compliance with government and agency regulations. It requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and related experience, along with substantial relevant and leadership experience.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Strategic Planning, nice to haveBudgeting, nice to haveQuality Management, nice to haveLeadership, requiredStaff Development, requiredStrategic Vision, requiredNeeds Analysis, requiredAction Planning, requiredPerformance Management, requiredPolicy Development, requiredVendor Relations, requiredRegulatory Compliance, required

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Education and Experience, required8+ Years Relevant Experience, required7+ Years Leadership or Management Experience, required

Full job description

Req Number 201601

Job Description

Directs, plans, and organizes the activities of the Environmental Services Department. Ensures overall strategic planning, budgeting and quality management of Environmental Services and Linen Departments.

Job Responsibility

  • Leads an Environmental Services group by communicating with and developing staff members, and building consensus for programs and goals that support a business, function or geographic area.

  • Develops and articulates a short-term strategic vision for areas of responsibility.

  • Plans, organizes, and directs the activities of the Environmental Services and Linen Department.

  • Identifies and analyzes needs in all areas on all shifts; investigates new procedures and techniques.

  • Develops and implements action plans to meet needs and improve service.

  • Develops and monitors strategic operating goals, objectives and budget; reports operational performance, justification and/or corrective action.

  • Oversees the development, coordination, integration, communication, implementation, and performance evaluation of operating policies and procedures consistent and in collaboration with all guidelines.

  • Develops and manages direct reports; oversees the development and management of their staff.

  • Builds and maintains productive inter/intra departmental and vendor work relationships to optimize operations.

  • Oversees compliance with government and agency regulations.

  • Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related are not essential functions.

Job Qualification

  • Bachelor's Degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience.

  • 8-12 years of relevant experience and 7+ years of leadership / management experience, required.

*Additional Salary Detail

The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).

The salary range for this position is $91400.00-$158100.00/year

It is Northwell Health’s policy to provide equal employment opportunity and treat all applicants and employees equally regardless of their age, race, creed/religion, color, national origin, immigration status or citizenship status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, sex/gender, gender identity, gender expression, disability, pregnancy, genetic information or genetic predisposition or carrier status, marital or familial status, partnership status, victim of domestic violence, sexual or other reproductive health decisions, or other characteristics protected by applicable law.

How this job compares

Set against the 2,081 open Facilities Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$91–158K/yr
  • New York median$101–131K/yr118 salary ranges
  • US median$120–187K/yr1,317 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $125K, is 6% above the New York median midpoint ($117K) — in the middle half of Facilities Management salary ranges in New York.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 181 open Facilities Management jobs in New York and 2,081 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in New York
Experience
This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience — more than three in four Facilities Management postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 1,549 postings).
Education
241 of the 2,081 open Facilities Management jobs (12%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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