Chief Engineer

Mining Exchange Hotel & Spa

Chief Engineer

About The Opportunity

Practice Hospitality is seeking an experienced and hands-on Chief Engineer to join the team at the Mining Exchange Hotel & Spa.

About The Company

Practice Hospitality manages hotels differently. A growing company with opportunities for advancement, we infuse hotels with style, spirit, and soul. We inspire, innovate, and advocate. We deliver results and do well by our owners because we respect the individuality that we all bring to the table, the connectedness of our world, and the impact we have on our community.

We are looking for someone who thinks big because, at Practice Hospitality, we value creativity, emotional intelligence, problem-solving, and innovation. This is an opportunity to be an integral part of a team that supports one another, is empowered, and holds themselves accountable. If you bring your A-game every day and pursue excellence with tenacity, we want to invest in your professional and personal growth. But, more than anything, we are looking for good humans who care about our guests, and each other and make every moment together enriching, fulfilling, and fun.

About The Hotel

Mining Exchange Hotel & Spa was built in 1902 as a stock exchange for local mining companies, The Mining Exchange Hotel & Spa offers a one-of-a-kind experience in the heart of downtown Colorado Springs. Our elegant, yet casual public spaces and guestrooms are all newly renovated.

Job Role

Supervise the implementation of all property and equipment preventive maintenance and repairs, monitor life safety systems and utilities, and assist in the administration of the department in compliance with all corporate/franchise standards and local, state, and national codes and regulations to protect assets, guests, and associates. Recommend and implement procedural changes. Monitor

Responsibilities:

• Accomplish engineering human resource objectives by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and disciplining associates; communicating job expectations, job duties, and job responsibilities; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions; planning and reviewing compensation actions; enforcing policies and procedures.
• Implement and schedule property and equipment preventive maintenance programs in compliance with Corporate/franchise standards and local, state, and national codes and regulations to ensure the safety and satisfaction of all guests, managers, and associates, protect the assets, and maintain the property in first-class condition.
• Prioritize service requests; schedule and monitor the services performed to ensure customer safety and satisfaction. Coordinate with contractors regarding outside repairs and building maintenance.
• Extensive experience with installing and troubleshooting electrical switches, operating boilers, and repairing appliances. Test and examine the life safety systems to ensure they are always 100% operational to protect the assets, guests, and associates. Monitor utility consumption to determine the effectiveness of current systems.
• Diagnose mechanical, equipment, and building problems and determine how to correct them, checking blueprints, repair manuals, or parts catalogs, as necessary.
• Recommends the departmental budget and capital expenditures & manages expenses within approved budget constraints. Review purchase requests and monitor expenses to ensure budgeted goals are met/ exceeded.
• Assist in the administration of the department to include but not limited to preparing and maintaining schedules, logs, records or other documentation to ensure a smooth operation and minimize liabilities.
• Perform Manager-on-Duty functions and shifts as assigned.

Job Type: FLSA Designation: Full Time-Exempt

Compensation: $80,000 - $90,000 annually

Requirements

Education: One to two years of post-high school education; one or two-year certificate program in building maintenance, technology, or related field.

Experience: Minimum of two years of building maintenance experience in a leadership role or a related management position.

Skills and Abilities: Ability to perform critical analysis and manage a wide range of information. Has instincts and insight for finding the best solution to unclear situations, issues, and problems. Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, leadership technique, and coordination of people and resources. Require investigating and analyzing current activities and/or information in a specialized field involving available data and indicating logical conclusions and recommendations. Communicate information and hotel services to management, staff, and guests.