Find your calling at Mercy!
This position is responsible for leading and advancing the energy management program across Mercy's hospitals, ambulatory sites, support buildings, and utility infrastructure. Focuses on reducing energy and water consumption, controlling utility costs, improving building performance, and supporting organizational sustainability and resilience. The Energy Specialist collaborates with facilities maintenance and operations, construction, finance, supply chain, and clinical support teams to optimize utility usage, identify efficiency opportunities, and support capital and operational planning across a complex healthcare environment.
Position Details:
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in engineering, energy management, facilities management, construction management, or a related field.
Three to five years of experience in energy management, facilities engineering, healthcare facilities operations, utilities management, or a related field.
Experience working with building systems in complex facilities, including HVAC, electrical distribution, controls, and utility systems.
Experience analyzing utility data, system performance, and operational trends to identify improvement opportunities.
Experience managing projects and communicating technical recommendations to operational leaders and stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications:
Certified Energy Manager
Experience in healthcare facilities, including hospitals, surgical/procedural environments, or large integrated health systems.
Experience with healthcare utility infrastructure, central plants, and building automation systems.
Knowledge of healthcare codes, standards, and operational requirements affecting environmental conditions and utility performance.
Experience with energy benchmarking, commissioning, retro-commissioning, fault detection and diagnostics, and measurement and verification.
Experience supporting capital planning, infrastructure renewal, and sustainability or decarbonization initiatives in healthcare environments.
Skills, Knowledge, Abilities:
Knowledge of healthcare facility building systems, including HVAC, electrical, lighting, domestic water, steam, chilled water, and central plant operations.
Knowledge of energy management principles, utility rate structures, demand management, and energy conservation practices in complex healthcare environments.
Knowledge of the operational sensitivity of patient care environments and the need to maintain compliance, reliability, and occupant comfort while implementing efficiency measures.
Ability to analyze utility, metering, and building automation data and convert findings into actionable operational and capital recommendations.
Ability to identify inefficiencies in healthcare building systems while recognizing infection prevention, environmental, and life safety requirements.
Skill in project management, prioritization, and coordination across multiple hospitals or sites.
Skill in developing business cases, cost savings analyses, and performance reports for technical and non-technical audiences.
Ability to collaborate effectively with facilities technicians, facilities leadership, infection prevention, planning and construction, finance, and executive stakeholders.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Proficiency in spreadsheets, reporting, metering, energy management, and building automation software tools.
Ability to support organizational goals related to sustainability, resilience, cost stewardship, and high reliability operations.
Why Mercy?
From day one, Mercy offers outstanding benefits - including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, tuition support, and matched retirement plans for team members working 32+ hours per pay period.
Join a caring, collaborative team where your voice matters. At Mercy, you'll help shape the future of healthcare through innovation, technology, and compassion. As we grow, you'll grow with us.
Our Mercy health system was founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1986. But our heritage goes back more than 185 years. It began with an Irish woman named Catherine McAuley, who wanted to help the poor women and children of Dublin. Though Catherine had a modest upbringing, she received an unexpected inheritance that allowed her to fulfill her dreams. In 1827, she opened the first House of Mercy in Dublin, intending to teach skills to poor women and educate children. Many volunteers came to help. A few years later, Catherine founded the Sisters of Mercy, the first religious order not bound to the rules of the cloister, whose Sisters were free to walk among the poor and visit them in their homes. By the time Catherine died in 1841, there were convents in Ireland and England, and in 1843, the Sisters of Mercy came to the United States. In 1871, they traveled to St. Louis and from there throughout the Midwest, beginning what would, today be known as Mercy.
Mercy, named one of the top five large U.S. health systems in 2018, 2017 and 2016 by IBM Watson Health, serves millions annually. Mercy includes more than 40 acute care and specialty (heart, children’s, orthopedic and rehab) hospitals, 800 physician practices and outpatient facilities, 44,000 co-workers and 2,100 Mercy Clinic physicians in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Mercy also has clinics, outpatient services and outreach ministries in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. In addition, Mercy's IT division, Mercy Technology Services, supply chain organization, ROi, and Mercy Virtual commercially serve providers and patients in more than 20 states coast to coast.