Portfolio Engineer

Company Overview
Healthpeak Properties is a fully integrated real estate investment trust (REIT) and an S&P 500 company. We specialize in owning, operating, and developing high-quality real estate focused on healthcare discovery and delivery. Our impressive portfolio includes nearly 50 million square feet of medical outpatient buildings, lab and life science facilities and Senior Assisted Living centers throughout the country.

Position Overview
The Director - Portfolio Engineer provides senior building engineering leadership for a portfolio of life science, office and medical office properties. This role establishes and advances Healthpeak engineering standards while providing strategic oversight, quality assurance, and technical guidance to third-party engineering providers and site engineering teams.
Working closely with Property Management/Operations, Capital Asset Management, Construction, and Leasing, this position supports system reliability, regulatory compliance, operational readiness, capital planning, energy performance, risk mitigation, and exceptional tenant service. The Portfolio Engineer also reviews tenant improvement, capital, infrastructure, and other construction plans from an engineering and building operations perspective.
This is primarily a leadership, oversight, and strategic planning role. The Portfolio Engineer is expected to possess deep technical expertise and be willing to roll up their sleeves during critical situations, complex operational challenges, staffing shortages, or major system failures; however, routine hands‑on execution is not generally required. Day‑to‑day building system operation remains with on-site engineering teams, third‑party service providers, specialty contractors, and project teams.

Position Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary Healthpeak contact and strategic partner for third‑party engineering service providers.
• Establish engineering standards, policies, procedures, and performance expectations that promote consistency, safety, operational excellence, and tenant‑first service.
• Provide strategic direction, performance oversight, coaching, and accountability expectations for engineering teams across multiple assets in partnership with third‑party engineering leadership.
• Conduct property inspections, engineering audits, and operational reviews to assess building conditions, preventive maintenance execution, documentation, and compliance with Healthpeak standards.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, training, succession planning, and professional development for engineering personnel.
• Collaborate with Regional Property Manager to assess and implement portfolio‑wide engineering and operational initiatives.
• Ensure consistency in engineering practices, communication, documentation, and service delivery across all assigned assets.
• Develop and maintain relevant training programs for Building Engineers and Property Management teams.

• Provide technical leadership and strategic oversight for mechanical, electrical, plumbing, BAS/BMS, life safety, laboratory infrastructure, specialty process, water treatment, and related building systems.
• Ensure Chief Engineers effectively use BAS/BMS platforms, trend analysis, alarms, scheduling, and sequences of operation to support reliability, occupant comfort, indoor environmental quality, and energy performance.
• Provide oversight and escalation support for complex troubleshooting, recurring system issues, major incidents, and critical system failures.
• Support high‑performance laboratory and specialized research environments requiring precise temperature, humidity, airflow, pressurization, and infrastructure reliability.
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