Lead Engineer, Operations Management

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Position:
Lead Engineer

Location:
Christ Medical Center;
Oak Lawn, IL.

Full Time; 1st Shift

Provides effective supervision and management of the associates assigned to the engineering team.

• Works collaboratively with the manager, establishes goals and quality standards for the engineering team. Drives goal attainment specific to reductions in energy utilization. Regularly reports on goal attainment status.
• Collaborates with the department manager on matters of hiring, progressive discipline, rewards and recognition of associates.
• Establishes work schedules for the engineering staff to assure proper coverage, optimizing the use of vendor services to supplement the work of the associates assigned to the engineering team.
• Approves overtime as warranted and edits time cards accordingly.
• Prioritizes and schedules associates to perform routine, non-routine, preventative and predictive maintenance activities to ensure proper operation of HVAC equipment.
• Leads the onboarding process for orientation and training of the engineering team to increase knowledge, skills, and proficiency.
• Inspects and ensures that all work is done to the highest quality standards, providing regular performance feedback to the associates assigned to the engineering team and drafts annual performance appraisals.
• Provides timely and accurate recommendations and supporting background for the annual operating budget and for the five year infrastructure capital plan. Manages expenditures to meet department budget goals.
• Chairs the Utilities Management Sub-Committee and is responsible for developing and executing the objectives of the Utility Management Plan.
• Oversees administrative actions required of the engineering team.

• Ensures stationary engineers and vendors complete assigned PMs by the established deadlines.
• Ensures all new equipment is inventoried and that preventative/predictive tasks and frequencies consistent with manufacture's recommendations and regulatory standards are established and properly entered into computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).
• Ensures that staff properly documents all actions taken through log books or CMMS work orders.
• Maintains documentation required by regulatory standards in a format easily retrieved and audited.
• Takes appropriate action on problems reported that were not resolved during the PM inspections using the CMMS to track resolution.
• Inspects and ensures work is done to the highest quality standards
• Identifies significant problems found during inspections and proposes a course of action to the Manager in a timely and accurate manner.
• Ensures that assigned equipment and mechanical rooms are maintained to a clean, safe, and professional appearance.

• Troubleshoots HVAC equipment problems or failures to determine the cause of the failure in a timely manner.
• Provides assistance to engineering staff as warranted by the situation. Establishes a plan for correction with the assistance of service vendors or consultants as warranted.
• Coordinates HVAC service outages to ensure minimal impact on the hospital and patient care.
• Oversees approval and funding of vendor provided repairs.
• Inspects and ensures that all work performed by stationary engineers, vendors and contractors is done to the highest quality standards.
• Documents actions taken in the computerized maintenance management system and log books.
• Ensures that…