The Chief Engineer is responsible for overseeing the maintenance and operation of all hotel facilities, ensuring safety, functionality, and efficiency of equipment and systems.
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 the 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.
Education and Experience
- Vocational Institution Certificate and completion of apprenticeship in plumbing/electrical repair.
- 2 years supervisory experience in the maintenance field
- 3 years’ experience in the plumbing, electrical, and painting trades; OR an equivalent combination of educ. & experience.
$95,000 - $105,000 annual salary depending upon experience
