at Jones Lang LaSalle in SpringfieldSpringfield, Illinois, United States
Job Description
The Chief Engineer's primary responsibility is to oversee the efficient operation of all building systems and to inform the Assistant Facility manager and/or the Facility Manager of any condition affecting building services and Facility or Client safety and comfort.
Specific areas of responsibility include Client services, customer satisfaction and relationship management, preventive maintenance, supervision of the crew (including staff development), purchasing and inventory control, budget management, supervision and management of contracted services, and following the Firm's guidelines regarding general maintenance practices.
The Chief Engineer is responsible for protecting and improving the value of the Owner's or Client's asset and ensuring that the facility and building systems meet or exceed their rated life. Additionally, the Chief Engineer is expected to have an intimate knowledge of codes, laws and regulations pertaining to the operation of the facility and be able to implement and supervise activities while mitigating risk of the Client and JLL. The Chief Engineer will be held accountable to be in compliance with all firm policy and procedures including any audit requirements.
Essential Functions:
General responsibilities as a skilled tradesman and focusing on building operations, reactive and preventive maintenance, small project execution and supervision, energy management, client satisfaction, engineering staff supervision, training, subcontractor supervision, and budget control.
Ability to organize and prioritize multiple tasks, effectively solve problems in stressful situations, and consistently make effective, high quality decisions. Direct the organization and management of all administrative functions related to the engineering department including budgeting and financial control, compliance with all applicable national and local codes and regulations, reporting on budgets, energy accounting, and productivity.
Construction coordination including contractor management and review, review of facility build out plans and pre-occupancy inspections.
Perform and/or direct the performance of all service requests including communicating with the Facility Management Team as applicable to establish service request work priorities, insuring that work performed in the facility is accomplished with a minimum of disruption and is followed by adequate clean-up, overseeing the accurate and timely completion of service request forms, reviewing monthly service request summaries to pinpoint and correct reoccurring operational issues.
Direct and/or develop the formulation and implementation of the preventive maintenance program including scheduling of preventive maintenance with minimum disruption of building services
Ensure the availability of an adequate operating inventory of tools and supplies including developing sources for stock materials
Assist in creating purchasing specifications and competitive bid analysis relative to monitoring the quality and pricing of maintenance work performed by outside contractors including insuring the timely performance of maintenance contract
Understand the engineering design and operational aspects of each building system, and immediately recognize system shortcomings when they occur including monitoring the allocation of building system capability to various base building and Facility/Client needs, devising technical enhancements which will improve some aspect of building operation, identifying equipment, which may require replacement or reconditioning resulting in the need for owner's capital.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA)
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