Chief Building Engineer: Decatur, GA
Job ID: 188393
Posted: 12-Oct-2024
Service line: GWS Segment
Role type: Full-time
Areas of Interest: Engineering/Maintenance, Facilities Management
Location(s): Decatur - Georgia - United States of America
Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) - Local is a hard services-led, tailored facility management solution. We self-perform hard services while partnering with best-in-class soft service providers to offer custom facility and project management solutions to our clients. We focus on empowering our team with a high-level of downstream accountability resulting in an agile and efficient service delivery.
In addition to our core facility and project management capabilities, our platform offers direct access to our Best-in-Class services including ESG, Security Consulting, Workplace Strategy, and Workplace Experience.
About the role
Summary: Plans, implements, coordinates, and leads all mechanical operations, maintenance, communications, energy management, and workforce development programs for a facility, campus or portfolio of buildings.
What you’ll do
Responsibilities:
- Runs the building's operational accounts and assists in development of operating and capital budgets.
- Recommends and implements improvements for preventative maintenance programs on an ongoing basis and develop/maintain effective building-specific maintenance and safety procedure manuals.
- Coordinates maintenance efforts with outside contractors, tenant finish personnel and technicians. Coordinates all building systems including fire/life safety, plumbing, HVAC and electrical issues and must remain current with the latest HVAC technology trends.
- Maintains ongoing communication with tenants, clients, owners, facility management team and vendors.
- Responds to all emergency situations quickly (fire, evacuation, equipment failure etc.) and customer concerns.
- Implements and coordinates inventory control programs/purchase parts and supplies.
- Establishes and monitors programs to ensure compliance with applicable codes, requisitions, government agency and company directives as relates to building operations.
- Provides formal supervision to individual employees within single functional or operational area. Approves subordinate's recommendations for staff recruitment, selection, promotion, advancement, corrective action and termination. Optimally recommends same for direct reports to next level management for review and approval.
- Plans and