Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager

Key West Historic Inns is seeking an enthusiastic, hands-on, and talented Engineering Manager to join our dynamic team. If you're passionate about maintaining exceptional facilities, preserving the charm of historic boutique hotels, and ensuring an outstanding guest experience, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

As the Engineering Manager, you will lead a skilled team of engineering professionals responsible for the maintenance, repair, and continuous improvement of our boutique hotel collection. You will oversee preventive maintenance programs, building systems, capital improvement projects, vendor relationships, and regulatory compliance while ensuring our hotels remain safe, well-maintained, and operating at the highest standards. Your leadership will play a vital role in preserving our historic properties and creating a comfortable, welcoming environment for both our guests and team members.

At Key West Historic Inns, your expertise will be valued, your ideas will make an impact, and you'll have the opportunity to help shape the future of our collection. We offer competitive compensation, opportunities for professional growth, and a collaborative work environment where excellence, teamwork, and hospitality are at the heart of everything we do.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Facilities Management, Construction Management, or a related field preferred, or a minimum of five (5) years of progressive engineering leadership experience in hospitality or a comparable commercial environment.

• Three (3) to four (4) years of hotel, institutional, commercial building, or HVAC systems experience preferred.

• Previous management or supervisory experience of three (3) to five (5) years required.

• Refrigeration, HVAC certification, EPA certification, journeyman-level experience, or other applicable trade certifications are highly preferred.

• Extensive working knowledge of electrical, mechanical, plumbing, HVAC, refrigeration, emergency, preventive maintenance systems, and all related building disciplines.

• Proven experience developing and managing preventive maintenance programs, vendor relationships, departmental budgets, and capital improvement projects.

• Strong leadership, organizational, project management, problem-solving, and decision-making skills with the ability to motivate and develop high-performing teams.

• Basic computer and administrative skills, including proficiency with Microsoft Office and computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS), preferred.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate with guests, team members, vendors, and all levels of leadership.

• Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English fluently.

• Ability to work independently while managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced hospitality environment.

• Knowledge of OSHA regulations, fire and life safety standards, environmental compliance, applicable building codes, and hospitality regulations.

• Valid driver's license preferred.

• Must meet the minimum age requirement of the jurisdiction.

• Ability to work a flexible schedule, including evenings, weekends, holidays, and emergency call-ins as business needs require.

Benefits:

Davidson Hospitality Group is an award-winning, full-service hospitality management company overseeing hotels, restaurants, dining and entertainment venues across the US. A trusted partner and preferred operator for Hilton, Hyatt, Kimpton, Marriott, and Margaritaville, Davidson offers a unique entrepreneurial management style and owners' mentality that provides the individualized personal service of a small company, enhanced by the breadth and depth of skill and experience of a larger company.

In keeping with the company's heritage of delivering value to its owners and team members, Davidson offers a rich benefit program with a variety of benefits designed to enrich the lives and well-being of our team members and their families.

• Multiple Tiers of Medical Coverage
• Dental & Vision Coverage
• 24/7 Teledoc service
• Free Maintenance Medications
• Pet Insurance
• Hotel Discounts
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Time Off (vacation, sick, bereavement, and Holidays).
• 401K Match

Working at Davidson is like nowhere else. It's less of a job, more of a calling. It's part career, part revolution. Because whatever you do here, you play a part in helping redefine the way quality hospitality is delivered to our guests, our clients, our partners, and each other.

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- Minorities/Females/Vet/Disability/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation Davidson Hospitality is a drug free workplace. Pre-employment drug test and background check required. We participate in E-Verify.