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Northwestern Medicine

Academic medical center research, teaching, care

Power Plant Stationary Engineer

Full-Time
$35.55 - $44.44/hr
Junior
Palos Heights, IL, USA
In Person
General Maintenance & RepairBuilding & Property Maintenance

About the job

Requirements
  • A valid City of Chicago Stationary Engineer License is required.
  • Thorough knowledge of the principles of steam generation and refrigeration is required.
  • A high school diploma or GED is required.
  • A valid driver's license is required.
  • One to two years of position-related experience is required.
  • Ability to work weekends, holidays, and shift coverage as required.
  • Ability to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action.
  • Critical thinking skills, decisive judgment, problem-solving ability, and ability to work with minimal supervision.
Responsibilities
  • Troubleshoot malfunctioning equipment, evaluate and analyze problems, and take appropriate corrective action or refer issues to a supervisor or manager.
  • Service and repair hospital utility and equipment systems.
  • Repair or fabricate equipment as required.
  • Perform preventive maintenance according to schedule and update preventive tasks to ensure hospital equipment is properly maintained.
  • Respond to service requests; assess problems, troubleshoot, correct issues, and document work.
  • Inspect, repair, and install components or equipment to maintain the hospital utility system.
  • Assist with snow and ice removal as required.
  • Perform routine manual duties, including moving supplies and equipment.
  • Respond to fire alarms.
  • Work with outside contractors on hospital equipment and other projects.
  • Operate and maintain boilers and the feedwater treatment system.
  • Operate and maintain chillers, the cooling tower, and related pumping equipment.
  • Operate and maintain the control air compressor system, medical air compressor system, vacuum pump system, and medical gas system.
  • Monitor and maintain appropriate supplies of medical gases.
  • Operate and maintain domestic cold and hot water systems.
  • Operate and maintain emergency diesel generators, including exercising and full-load operation.
  • Test, maintain, and operate the fire pump.
  • Log designated instrument and meter readings, observe trends indicating equipment malfunctions, and maintain operating records and logs to verify operating efficiency and utility consumption.
  • Complete rounds and take readings of hospital mechanical equipment when adequate staff is available.
  • Perform chemical testing of water and steam systems, interpret the results, and add chemicals as necessary to maintain proper chemical balances.
  • Check automatic operation of the equipment, make correct adjustments, and manually operate equipment to designated parameters.
  • Provide assistance to maintenance and electrical staff as necessary.
Desired Qualifications
  • Technical training in the job-related field is preferred.
  • Five years of relevant experience, preferably in a hospital setting, is preferred.

About the company

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Northwestern Medicine

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Northwestern Medicine brings together Northwestern Memorial HealthCare and the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine to advance health care through research, teaching, and patient care. It runs an academic medical system with more than 33,000 staff, faculty, students, and researchers across 200 locations, including five hospitals that are ranked among America’s Best by U.S. News & World Report (2025–2026). The organization offers medical care by clinicians and scientists who also teach and study new treatments, meaning patients may benefit from up-to-date therapies developed through ongoing research. Its approach combines hospital services, medical education, and scientific discovery in one ecosystem, which sets it apart from ordinary clinics. The goal is to improve medicine so that patients receive higher-quality care and safer, better outcomes.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

Grant

Total Funding

$25M

Headquarters

Chicago, Illinois

Founded

2009

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What believers are saying

  • A June 16, 2026 $35 million Schreiber gift funds community health expansion.
  • Vizlitics activated cancer trial matching on June 18, 2026, improving enrollment efficiency.
  • The 330 E. Erie tower targets 2031 completion, adding 1.2 million square feet.

What critics are saying

  • EEOC settled August 2026 religious discrimination charges for $325,000 and policy retraining.
  • Union workers at Northwestern Memorial demanded more ER staff on January 7, 2026.
  • The 330 E. Erie tower still needs zoning and a fall 2026 Certificate of Need.

What makes Northwestern Medicine unique

  • Northwestern Medicine pairs Feinberg research with 33,000 employees and 5,400 aligned physicians.
  • Its Techstars accelerator opened August 24, 2026, embedding startups inside Chicago clinicians.
  • The Streeterville tower links inpatient, oncology, imaging, and surgery through campus bridges.

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Benefits

  • Remote Work Options
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Paid Vacation
  • Paid Holidays
  • Flexible Work Hours
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • 401(k) Company Match
  • Wellness Program
  • Mental Health Support
  • Job Training or Education?

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

4%

1 year growth

-14%

2 year growth

1%
Audacy
Oct 19th, 2026
Northwestern opens outpatient center in Huntley.

Northwestern opens outpatient center in Huntley. Oct 19, 2026, 07:27 AM CT HUNTLEY, Ill. (WBBM Newsradio) - Northwestern Medicine opened a new outpatient center Monday on its Huntley Hospital campus, expanding cancer, heart and specialty care for patients in McHenry County and surrounding communities. The approximately 80,000-square-foot building at 10390 Haligus Road introduces radiation oncology, palliative care, gastroenterology and pulmonary medicine to the campus. "This is a reflection of the explosive growth of needing specialized services that we have in our community," said Matt Carlen, president of Northwestern Medicine Huntley Hospital. The center doubles cancer infusion rooms from eight to 16 and increases medical oncology exam rooms from six to 13. It also expands cardiac testing, general surgery and urology services. Gynecologic oncology is expected to begin in 2027. Previously, Northwestern Medicine patients in the northwest suburbs received radiation oncology services at its McHenry Hospital Cancer Center. That location will continue providing treatment. "Patients often require multiple types of treatment as part of their cancer journey," radiation oncologist Dr. Terrence Bugno said in a statement. "Having radiation oncology available on the Huntley campus enables us to deliver more coordinated care while helping patients avoid unnecessary travel during treatment." Northwestern Medicine expects the expansion to support approximately 300 new jobs over the next three years, including physicians, advanced practice providers and support staff.

HyperAI
Oct 16th, 2026
Command palette.

Command palette. 2 hours ago Northwestern Medicine researchers and collaborating institutions have developed an artificial intelligence tool that helps identify harmful genetic variants in STXBP1, a gene commonly linked to severe childhood epilepsies, potentially improving diagnosis and eligibility for emerging precision therapies. The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, introduces EpiPred, a supervised machine-learning model built to predict whether missense variants in STXBP1 cause disease rather than represent benign genetic differences. Senior author Gemma Carvill, associate professor of neurology, pharmacology and pediatrics at Northwestern Medicine, said the model addresses a major limitation of clinical genetic testing, where many variants remain classified as uncertain, leaving families without clear diagnoses or access to gene-targeted treatments. The research was conducted through a National Institutes of Health-funded collaboration involving Northwestern Medicine, the University of Michigan, Weill Cornell Medicine and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The team combined computational prediction with laboratory assays measuring protein abundance, stability, solubility and interaction with other cellular components. They also used cellular and animal models to validate the predictions. According to the researchers, EpiPred outperformed existing broad variant prediction tools in accuracy, sensitivity and specificity, and its results aligned closely with experimental findings. The model identified several variants that may have been misclassified in earlier studies, including cases in which individuals may have been incorrectly diagnosed with STXBP1-related disorder. Correcting such diagnoses could be critical as gene-targeted therapies enter clinical trials, because uncertain or incorrect variant interpretations can exclude patients from precision medicine programs. The investigators extended the analysis to hundreds of known variants and predicted the effects of all possible STXBP1 missense changes. They estimated that about one quarter of variants currently classified as uncertain may actually be disease-causing, a finding that could expand the number of patients receiving definitive diagnoses and qualifying for future treatments. The team also released an interactive web application allowing clinicians, researchers and families to explore STXBP1 variant predictions. Future work will use higher-throughput experimental systems capable of testing more than 3,000 possible missense variants in STXBP1 simultaneously. Carvill said the broader goal is to create a reproducible framework combining gene-specific artificial intelligence with large-scale laboratory validation, which could be applied to other rare neurodevelopmental disorders and rare genetic diseases generally.

AMCH
Oct 13th, 2026
Johns Hopkins has selected OpenEvidence, which is already used by 1.12 million medical professionals in the U.S.

Johns Hopkins has selected OpenEvidence, which is already used by 1.12 million medical professionals in the U.S. Johns Hopkins Medicine is launching a partnership with OpenEvidence focused on clinical practice and physician training, reports Fierce Healthcare. The parties will develop AI systems that integrate the evidence base with patient medical records and Johns Hopkins protocols, using them to build a new model of medical education. OpenEvidence describes Johns Hopkins as the birthplace of modern medical education. Recently, Northwestern Medicine announced that it had integrated OpenEvidence into its Epic electronic health record system. The service is accessible to nurses, pharmacists, and other clinical staff in addition to physicians, with access provided via hospital credentials. Prior to this, OpenEvidence had been adopted by Mount Sinai, Cedars-Sinai, Penn Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian, and AdventHealth. OpenEvidence is free for US medical professionals; according to the company, 1.12 million licensed specialists used the platform in September. Integrations are moving the service from physicians' mobile phones into the operational systems of the country's largest health systems - and, through the Johns Hopkins partnership, into the training of the next generation of medical professionals. In September, Forbes reported that investors valued OpenEvidence at $15 billion, a 25% increase over its valuation in the January funding round. OpenEvidence is available in its app.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 12th, 2026
OpenEvidence embeds AI clinical search in Northwestern Medicine's Epic health records

Northwestern Medicine and OpenEvidence, an AI-powered medical search and clinical decision-support platform, have announced a collaboration to embed OpenEvidence directly in the electronic health record (EHR). Since October 8, clinicians at the Chicago health system can launch the tool from Epic, signed in automatically with their hospital credentials. Nurses, pharmacists and other clinical staff get access for the first time. Users can check medication dosing and drug interactions, review guidelines, and get cited answers drawn from peer-reviewed literature, including the New England Journal of Medicine and the JAMA Network. The enterprise-wide rollout is the first phase of a broader effort to ensure AI is used safely at the bedside. Northwestern Medicine runs 11 hospitals and more than 200 diagnostic and ambulatory sites.

Construction Owners
Oct 10th, 2026
Bulley & Andrews completes 18,500-square-foot Faculty Center for Northwestern Medicine.

Bulley & Andrews completes 18,500-square-foot Faculty Center for Northwestern Medicine. Construction Owners Editorial Team New Project Highlights. * Bulley & Andrews served as construction manager for Northwestern Medicine's new Faculty Center in Chicago. * The 18,500-square-foot facility expands space available for patient care within Galter Pavilion. * The project includes physician offices, sleep rooms, wellness rooms, meeting areas, showers and a café. * Construction was phased around a healthcare facility operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. * Nine months of preconstruction services supported design, budgeting, scheduling and early procurement. Faculty Center adds physician support space. Healthcare facilities are increasingly using renovations and targeted expansions to improve staff environments while preserving space for patient services. At Northwestern Medicine's Galter Pavilion in Chicago, Bulley & Andrews completed an 18,500-square-foot Faculty Center designed to provide physicians with dedicated work, wellness and collaboration areas. The new center includes reservable offices, sleep rooms, wellness rooms, meeting spaces, a locker room with showers and a social area with a café. The project allows additional space within Galter Pavilion to be allocated toward patient care while providing physicians with amenities outside traditional office settings. Preconstruction and phasing supported active hospital operations. Bulley & Andrews began supporting Northwestern Medicine during the preconstruction phase, providing nine months of planning services. The work included design coordination, budgeting, scheduling and procurement planning. Early purchasing of long-lead materials helped maintain the construction schedule as design development and building information modeling coordination continued. Demolition activities were also sequenced to support the renovation schedule. The project presented additional logistical challenges because construction occurred within a fully occupied healthcare facility that remained operational around the clock. Limited ceiling space required careful coordination while new building utilities were installed. Construction activities were phased to minimize impacts on patient care, hospital staff and building occupants. Coordination among facility personnel, project teams and end users helped maintain operations while work progressed. Renovation supports Northwestern Medicine's capacity goals. The completed Faculty Center provides Northwestern Medicine physicians with dedicated areas for work, rest, meetings and wellness. Its placement within the existing Galter Pavilion also supports the broader objective of increasing available space for patient services. Why it matters. Renovating active healthcare facilities requires construction teams to balance schedule, utility installation, access and safety with uninterrupted clinical operations. The Galter Pavilion project demonstrates how extensive preconstruction planning, phased construction and early material procurement can help manage those constraints while modernizing occupied medical facilities.