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Ravalli County interviews Dan Healy for facilities manager; candidate cites hospital and industrial maintenance experience
Summary
Dan Healy interviewed May 14 for Ravalli County facilities manager. He described hands-on maintenance experience at Marcus Daly/Bitterroot Health, Lubrizol and on aerospace projects, said he has limited formal budget-writing experience for local government, and noted he would be available to start June 2 because of a family wedding.
Dan Healy, an applicant for Ravalli County facilities manager, interviewed with the Board of County Commissioners on May 14 about supervising maintenance and custodial staff across the county.
Healy summarized maintenance experience at Marcus Daly Hospital (now Bitterroot Health), Lubrizol and earlier work at Lockheed at Kennedy Space Center. He described extensive hands-on maintenance, preventive-maintenance (PM) tasks and troubleshooting — changing filters and belts, greasing bearings and electrical troubleshooting — and said he had been a shift lead who coordinated technicians and daily work plans. "If it's critical, you gotta stay late and get the job done," he told the panel when asked about meeting urgent demands.
Healy said he has not had an extensive formal facilities-management title but has led crews and run daily operations; he described a morning briefing to assign tasks and ensure parts and tools are available. On PM systems, he asked whether the county’s PM scheduling is paper-based or digital and noted many county assets are older, which affects maintenance planning. He recommended labeling equipment and keeping a numbered inventory tied to PM records, describing a practice he used at Lubrizol to track maintenance.
On budgeting, Healy said he would need to review existing county budgets before preparing one: "I would have to have something to start with," he told the panel, noting he had limited standalone budget-authoring experience though he had provided input to managers at prior employers. He also said he was comfortable working in secure locations such as the detention center with appropriate procedures and that he had no problem passing a background check.
Healy discussed personnel matters, describing an instance when a supervisor insisted on a particular approach he thought was inefficient; he said he complied but preferred collaborative problem-solving. He described how he approaches disciplinary conversations — sit down with the employee, explain the problem, provide an opportunity to improve — and said he valued clear expectations and follow-up.
Healy told commissioners he would be available to begin June 2 because his son’s wedding is May 24; commissioners and HR reiterated that they expect to shortlist candidates after completing interviews and aim to make a choice before the incumbent’s May 30 departure if possible.
No hiring decision or offer was made at the May 14 meeting.
