Job Details
Job Location: Neptune, NJ 82100
Salary Range: $50.00 - $60.00 per year
We are currently looking for a Hotel Chief Engineer to join our team!
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Affordable Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits for You & Your Family
- 401k Retirement With Company Match
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- Paid Time Off & Paid Holidays
- Short-term Disability and Maternity Leave Options, Personal and Family Medical Leave
- Company provided Life Insurance and Long Term Disability Coverage
Employee Perks Program
- Tickets At Work for Discounted Entertainment Tickets!
- Tuition Reimbursement
- In Facility Training/Inservice Programs
- Employee Assistance Program
- Free Will/Estate Preparation Services
- Optional Legal & Identity Protection Services
- Verizon Wireless Discount
Responsibilities
The Chief Engineer is responsible for the overall maintenance, operation, and functionality of the hotel's physical plant and engineering systems. This includes overseeing the maintenance staff, managing projects, ensuring compliance with safety regulations, and implementing preventative maintenance programs.
- Responsible for interviewing, training, supervising, counseling, scheduling, and evaluating staff.
- Assumes the Manager on Duty role in the event of lesser superior management presence.
- Directly responsible for the maintenance and operation of all equipment on the property site and the building structure, including refrigeration, air conditioning, the fire alarm system, boilers, primary and secondary power systems, and emergency generators.
- Responsible for the aesthetics of the exterior and interior of the building, continuously evaluating remodeling projects and scheduling labor and material for remodeling and refurbishing projects.
- Strong understanding of building and equipment including external utilities such as water, power, gas, sewer, and internal utilities, power systems and fire protection.
- Periodically trains new and current employees while coaching and providing constructive feedback.
- Implements policies and procedures to ensure energy conservation throughout the hotel.
- Conducts department meetings and training on a regular basis in conjunction with Onix Hospitality's standards and brand standards, including maintenance techniques and safe use of cleaning products.
- Ensures that Onix Hospitality’s standards and brand standards are met in all physical areas of the hotel, including outside the building.
- Monitors compliance with state building codes and regulations, OSHA safety codes, and adherence to Fire Department safety and evacuation procedures.
- Cooperates with all Department Heads, sets up departmental meetings, supervisory meetings, and internal departmental meetings.
- Monitors new construction and interacts with designers, architects, contractors, public utilities, the Fire Department, Health Department, insurance agencies, and OSHA.
- Works with Department Heads to prepare budgets, prepares new work orders for construction projects, and monitors requisitioned supplies and equipment for the Maintenance and Engineering Departments.
- Coordinates hotel emergency procedures in conjunction with the General Manager, develops an effective emergency plan, conducts drills with staff, and trains staff on the operation of emergency systems and equipment.
- Confers closely with the General Manager and becomes familiar with all aspects of the hotel to assist guests wherever required.
- Keeps the General Manager promptly informed of all problems or unusual matters of significance.
- Requires working shifts, including availability to work weekends, holidays, and flexibility for emergencies.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field (preferred).
- Proven experience in hotel maintenance or a similar role.
- Strong leadership and managerial skills.
- Knowledge of building systems, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and fire protection systems.
- Familiarity with relevant codes, regulations, and safety standards.
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
- Must be able to push, pull, move, lift, and/or carry a minimum of 50 lbs., a minimum of 5 ft. in distance.
- Requires reaching overhead, climbing, crouching, and twisting.
- Must be reliable and willing to work long hours, holidays, and weekends.
- Must be able to speak and write the English language in an understandable manner.