Chief Engineer en Synergy Global Housing

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. 

REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES: (Employee may perform any combination of the essential functions shown below. This position description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, knowledge or abilities associated with this classification, but is intended to accurately reflect the principal job elements). 

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, 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 Executive Housekeeper and Director of Operations 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 meet 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.  
• 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.
• Manage and provide comprehensive engineering support for both the hotel and apartments under its program.
• In close coordination with owners or building facilities management, oversee the planning and execution of all preventative, monthly, and quarterly maintenance programs.
• Negotiate and manage contracts with maintenance suppliers to ensure efficient service delivery.
• Facilitate the coordination of new unit installations and removals, collaborating with relevant suppliers.
• Undertake additional building maintenance and engineering support tasks and projects as required.
• Other duties as assigned. 

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• 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 education. & experience. 

PHYSICAL DEMANDS, ABILITIES & WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• 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

Synergy Global Housing provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.