Community:
Abbey Delray SouthAddress:
1717 Homewood BlvdDelray Beach, Florida 33445Pay Range
$87,700.00-$120,700.00+ AnnualAt Lifespace Communities, exceptional senior living starts with exceptional operations. As our Director of Plant Operations, you'll do more than oversee buildings, you'll create safe, welcoming, and beautifully maintained environments where residents can thrive, and team members can do their best work every day.
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 turn from 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.
Experience leading 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.
As part of the hiring process and in accordance with Florida law, healthcare candidates who accept a job offer are required to complete a background screening through the Florida Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse. This step is quick, secure, and helps us finalize your employment as smoothly as possible.
Lifespace has successfully served older adults for 50 years, and this is just the beginning. With new opportunities, continued growth, and the support from your Lifespace team members, get ready to ignite your life and experience Our Space.
COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Lifespace Communities, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is one of the nation's largest nonprofit senior living organizations. For over 50 years, we have been dedicated to creating vibrant communities across the country where older adults are empowered to live their aspirations with purpose, independence, and peace of mind. Driven by a commitment to exceptional service, innovation, and meaningful connections, our team members work together to enrich the lives of our residents every day. At Lifespace, you'll find more than a career, you'll find an opportunity to make a lasting impact while growing professionally in a collaborative, mission-driven organization.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Skills Required
- Approximately five years of direct CCRC experience
- Approximately five years of direct SNF experience with extensive Life Safety Code and survey knowledge
- Construction and technical expertise, including project and vendor management and building code knowledge
- Proven leadership and team development experience for plant operations teams
- Strong customer-service orientation focused on resident experience
- Financial stewardship including budgeting, cost control, and capital awareness
- Bachelor's degree (preferred; equivalent experience considered)
- Completion of Florida Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse as part of hiring
What We Do
Lifespace Communities is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1976 that provides senior living and care services. Its mission is to create vibrant communities where residents are empowered to live their aspirations. The company operates continuing care retirement communities across several states, offering a full continuum of care and dedicated services to support the health, well-being, and independence of seniors.
