Chief Engineer Job Description

Reports To: General Manager

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Position Summary

The Chief Engineer supervises all mechanical operations, maintenance, energy management programs, and employee development programs to corporate quality standards and property operating objectives. Provide direct supervision of the engineering staff.

Primary Responsibilities

• Supervise, develop and maintain ongoing maintenance operation for hotel, including refrigeration, heating, plumbing, water treatment, preventive maintenance, hotel rooms, A/H units, ice machines, pools, lighting, kitchen equipment, emergency generators, water softeners, switch rooms, roof exhausts, electrical substations, etc.
• Ensure projects are completed according to specifications and on time by studying work schedules and estimating worker-hour requirements for completion.
• Establish or adjust work procedures to meet production schedules.
• Work closely with Housekeeper and Front Desk Manager to ensure coordination of activities. May confer with other supervisors to coordinate activities of individual departments.
• Aid and instruct craftsmen in scheduling work, ordering material and completing assignments by a specified date.
• May estimate, requisition, and inspect materials.
• Meet with architects to discuss blueprints, contact contractors to submit bids for new construction, and meets with construction supervisors to discuss different phases of work.
• Perform work within departmental expense plans.
• Analyze and resolve work problems, or assist workers in solving problems.
• Initiate or suggest plans to motivate workers. Recommend or initiate personnel actions, such as training, promotions, transfers, discharges, and disciplinary measures.
• Reward employees who meet/exceed expectations. Confer with workers' representatives.
• Interprets specifications, job orders, and company policies to workers and enforces safety regulations.
• Establishes or adjusts work procedures to meet production schedules, recommends measures to improve production.
• May set up machines and equipment.
• Other duties as assigned.

Experience/Education

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule form.
• Read and understand instructions, safety rules, etc.
• Write reports with proper format, punctuation, spelling, and grammar. Speak with poise, voice control, and confidence, using correct grammar and well-modulated voice.
• Ability to understand the technologies required in the work you are directing.
• Vocational Institution Certificate and completion of apprenticeship in plumbing/electrical repair.
• 2 years supervisory experience in the maintenance field and 3 years experience in the plumbing, electrical, and painting trades; OR, an equivalent combination of educ. & experience.

Physical Requirements

• Work indoors approximately 80% of the time and outdoors approximately 20% of the time
• Use olfactory, auditory and visual senses
• Work standing all day
• Lift 25 lbs. or more
• Climb up and down stairs and ladders
• Access remote work areas and confined spaces (i.e., crawl spaces, roofs)
• Use full range of manual dexterity (i.e., sitting, squatting, bending, kneeling, walking, and lifting)
• Meet the shift working requirements of the assigned property; shifts may include early mornings, late evenings, weekends and some holidays.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions