Job Description - Watch Engineer (3306836)
40 Hours - Rotating Shifts, days
Principle Duties and Responsibilities:
- A licensed Engineer must safely monitor, maintain, and adjust Power Plant equipment and related systems for efficient operation and to ensure a reliable energy source for fluctuating heating, cooling, and emergency power systems.
- Monitor power plant systems to include, but are not limited to Fire Alarm Panels, Bulk Oxygen Storage, Medical Gas Alarm panels, Building Automation Systems, Combined Heat and Power Systems.
- Periodically record the power plant systems to ensure that equipment operates normally. Investigate unusual readings and correct their cause while keeping the Chief Engineer informed on your progress.
- Power Plant logs must be accurate, legible, and complete with less than 3 significant monthly errors.
- Start, stop, and adjust machinery according to weather and energy requirement conditions to ensure optimum efficiency of operation.
- Perform and log the results of bi-weekly chemical tests of water and steam systems.
- Accurately log data and inform incoming shifts of changes affecting the power plant.
- Safely perform preventative maintenance and repair machinery as required.
- Safety concerns must be immediately reported to the Assistant Director of Facilities, Chief Engineer, or the Director of Facilities.
- Perform preventative maintenance tasks with an emphasis on accuracy and timeliness.
- Initiate and perform repairs required on equipment found during the P.M. process.
- Maintain a safe, clean, and tidy work environment.
- Engineers must wear hearing protection whenever the emergency generator(s) are running.
- Power Plant housekeeping includes trash removal, painting, insulating, floor, and machinery cleaning.
- Engineers must respond as required to emergencies to minimize the threat of injury or damage to the hospital.
- Engineers must respond during off-hours to calls regarding equipment or systems in the Power Plant’s assigned scope of responsibility.
Minimum Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent required.
- Proficiency to read and write in English and effectively communicate with co-workers, supervisors, and vendors.
- A minimum of two years experience as a 2nd Class Fireman's License issued by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Dept. of Public Safety is required.
- A 3rd Class stationary engineer license is preferred.
- Experience in a hospital power plant preferred.
- Ability to lift 75 pounds from a floor elevation to a chest-high elevation is required.
- Staff adheres to all I C.A.R.E. Standards.
Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital is an Affirmative Action Employer. By embracing diverse skills, perspectives, and ideas, we choose to lead. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law.
Primary Location
MA-Boston-BWFH Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital Main
Work Locations
BWFH Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital Main
Job
Maintenance/Skilled Worker
Organization
Brigham & Women's Faulkner Hospital(BWFH)
Schedule
Full-time
Standard Hours: 40
Shift
Day Job
Employee Status
Regular
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