Chief Engineer

About Bartell Hotels: Bartell Hotels is San Diego's largest independent hotel owner-operator with a sharp focus on employees, customers and community. This diverse collection of properties reflects Southern California's natural beauty, love for active lifestyles and exceptional hospitality. Our hotels combine classic and modern design, farm-to-table restaurants and energized bars, three beautiful marinas and the iconic Humphreys Concerts by the Bay entertainment venue. 

Our Culture: At Bartell Hotels you will find a team of incredibly friendly people who are committed to exceeding guest expectations every day. The Bartell Hotels culture emphasizes respect, pride, teamwork and development. When you work at Bartell Hotels, you are encouraged to think entrepreneurially, and you are empowered to perform and show leadership in ways that can help advance your career. We often look within to promote deserving colleagues at all levels. Bartell Hotels embraces colleague diversity, inclusion and equity, and is firmly committed to respecting and appreciating each colleague. 

Bartell Hotels is an equal opportunity employer.

Primary Objective of Chief Engineer Position

To provide our guests and team members with a secure, comfortable environment by managing ongoing preventative maintenance programs and ensuring that all-mechanical systems are operating in accordance with the standards of Bartell Hotels

Responsibilities

• Maintains hotel in accordance with maintenance schedule by assigning and supervising maintenance staff
• Schedules complete workweek coverage while remaining within budgeted guidelines
• Coordinates and prioritizes the distribution of repair-maintenance orders and planned-maintenance orders
• Checks and monitors the completed work in order to ensure it is completed  
• Develops preventative maintenance schedule for all equipment in all departments such as laundry, kitchen, swimming pool etc.
• Completes preventative maintenance schedules for equipment in the building including chillers, cooling towers, air handling units and fans, pumps, automatic control systems etc.
• Ensures that equipment is operated effectively and efficiently by directing and supervising the operation of all running equipment
• Maintains routine reports by recording daily meter readings and interpreting daily log sheets
• Ensures that all the applicable requirements are being complied with by maintaining contact with local authorities such as fire brigade, electricity suppliers, and the Health Department
• Leads our Risk Management Program, becoming familiar with all policies and procedures and improving as needed 
• Improves the effectiveness and efficiency of the operation of the department and/or hotel whenever possible 
• Maintains safe working conditions within department and hotel, insuring that all employees follow safety rules and procedures
• Utilizes leadership skills and motivation techniques in order to maximize employee productivity and satisfaction of direct reports
• Keeps General Manager promptly and fully informed of all problems or unusual matters of significance

Other duties may be assigned as needed 

Physical Demands & Work Environment 

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear and taste or smell.  The employee is frequently required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl as well as lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.   The employee is sometimes exposed to outside weather conditions and frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud