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Operating Engineer

JLL
Pennington, NJ Full Time
POSTED ON 11/20/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 12/14/2025
Responsible for the proper operation and maintenance of boilers and all associated equipment in the Boiler Room. To ensure all services and support-systems originating in the Boiler Room are functioning properly to provide a safe, healthy, and comfortable environment for staff and visitors. Stands shift on a 24/7 schedule, operating and maintaining 2 stationary 1700hp boilers, related equipment, and systems that supply steam and hot water. The Boiler Operator will operate, maintain, and repair boilers, related equipment and systems, and will maintain Boiler Room Log books as well as shift checklists. Responsible to observe, as well as promote, State mandated safety regulations at all times. Report equipment malfunctions in the shift log book as well as to the Chief Engineer.

Expected Schedule: Wednesday - Saturday, 6 PM - 6 AM

Proposed Salary: $33.00 - $36.00 per hour

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

  • Have a working knowledge of the State of New Jersey Administrative CODE (NJAC) 12:90 boiler, pressure vessels, and refrigeration.
  • Keep current on all New Jersey Administrative Code updates
  • Operates and monitors all boilers and support systems. Assures that boilers, support systems and related equipment are operating properly. Makes connections, adjustments and/or repairs as necessary.
  • Evaluates problems that may be encountered to determine their seriousness and corrects or reports to Chief Engineer. Notifies appropriate manager of major breakdowns or malfunctions and assists in completing repairs.
  • Maintain daily logs of operation, maintenance, repair, and safety activities including but not limited to test results, instrument readings, details of equipment malfunctions, preventive maintenance tasks, maintenance/repair work orders, complete shift check list.
  • Test boiler water quality and/or arrange for testing. Take necessary corrective action such as adding chemicals to prevent corrosion and harmful deposits per the Chief Engineers direction.
  • Trouble shoot problems, activate valves to maintain required amounts of water in boilers, adjust supplies of combustion air as well as the flow of fuel to the burners. Monitor boiler controls, safety switch valves, gauges, burners, alarms, to detect leaks or malfunctions to ensure that the boilers, related equipment and systems are operating efficiently and safely as directed by the Chief Engineer.
  • Perform scheduled preventive maintenance tasks, perform scheduled work order repair, overhaul/replace valves, pumps, burners, controls, alarms, and coils (steam/hot water) as directed by the Chief Engineer.
  • Performs weekly Emergency Generator "No Load Test". Completes necessary documentation and immediately reports any problems to the Chief engineer.
  • Keeps Boiler Room areas and equipment clean and in an orderly safe manner at all times.
  • Informs Chief Engineer when fuel oil, water treatment chemicals, water treatment testing chemicals, recording charts, logs and all other supplies are running low.
  • Follows safety regulations and reports any hazards, malfunctions and repairs as needed.
  • Performs all other maintenance and repair tasks and other related duties as directed.
  • Operate and maintain a 4mw co-gen system and all related equipment
  • NJ Blue seal steam license required, but will accept a High Pressure black seal with caveat to obtain NJ Blue seal within one year.

Salary : $33 - $36

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