Chief Engineer

CMI is now a part of the Dexterra Group!
CMI Management LLC is headquartered in Alexandria, VA and is a proven provider of efficient business, technology and facilities management solutions designed to help government and commercial clients reduce operational costs, operate at optimum performance and access the information needed for daily and long-term productivity. CMI has been in business for over 30 years and is well established in the federal contracting arena.

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The Chief Engineer is a working supervisor responsible for leading facilities engineering, operations, maintenance, repair, and technical compliance across CMI’s customer sites in Tennessee.

Work site Locations:
Nashville, Knoxville and Memphis

Key Job Functions

• Serve as the senior onsite technical lead and working supervisor for facilities engineering, operations, maintenance, and repair activities; plan, assign, inspect, and document work performed by employees and subcontractors.
• Lead, train, and mentor journeyman, apprentice, HVAC, and general maintenance personnel; verify that personnel possess the training, licenses, and certifications required for the systems and equipment they operate, maintain, adjust, or inspect.
• Operate and maintain electrical, mechanical, HVAC, domestic water and sewer, hydronic, filtration, generator, fire protection, life-safety, lighting, vertical transportation, architectural, structural, security, metering, control, and related building systems within the PWS scope.
• Develop and execute routine, predictive, condition-based, and reactive maintenance strategies that maximize uptime, preserve warranties, prevent premature failure, and comply with manufacturer specifications, the PM Guide, applicable ASHRAE and ASME standards, and other binding requirements.
• Perform and oversee troubleshooting and repairs for boilers, chillers, pumps, motors, controls, sensors, gauges, piping, tubing, expansion tanks, hydronic loops, and Building Automation Systems, including refrigerant recovery and charging when properly certified.
• Maintain occupied spaces and common areas within required temperature, humidity, ventilation, lighting, water-intrusion, odor, access, and safety conditions during occupied hours; promptly report and correct conditions that threaten health, safety, property, or building operations.
• Provide or coordinate 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week emergency response for critical system failures, asset protection, health and safety incidents, and vertical-transportation entrapments; ensure required notifications and response times are met.
• Lead a data-driven continuous commissioning program, optimize equipment schedules and start/stop sequences, identify energy and water waste, support demand-reduction strategies, and pursue no-cost and low-cost utility savings while maintaining tenant comfort.
• Maintain accurate asset, preventive-maintenance, service-call, inspection, testing, repair, subcontractor, permit, certification, and corrective-action records in customer’s National Computerized Maintenance Management System (NCMMS), the official system of record.
• Support development and annual updates of Building Operating Plans, emergency preparedness and response plans, utility demand-reduction plans, facility assessments, and other required technical deliverables.
• Implement quality-control inspections; document deficiencies, root causes, and corrective actions; analyze recurring failures and service-call trends; and support quantitative Acceptable Quality Level performance reporting.
• Inspect mechanical rooms, common areas, equipment, and active work for orderly conditions and compliance with OSHA requirements, NFPA codes, environmental requirements,…