Assistant Director of Engineering - Franchise
Indianapolis, INFull-time$80K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 1w ago
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The Assistant Director of Engineering supports the Director in managing the hotel’s day-to-day engineering operations, staff, maintenance programs, compliance, budgets and capital planning. The role coordinates projects, contractors and cross-functional work, analyzes facility and financial information, and prepares recommendations and reports. It may act for the Director when assigned. The position is at a hotel owned and operated by an independent franchisee.
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Full job description
Job Identification: 230104
Job Category: Engineering, Maintenance and Facilities
Job Schedule: Full time
Salary $80,000.00
Property Name Hilton Indianapolis Hotel & Suites
HOW YOU'LL SHAPE THE EXPERIENCE & FUTURE
- Assist the Director in administering the day-to-day engineering operation, departmental priorities, standards and systems of control.
Lead assigned managers, supervisors, technical leaders and programs; coordinate staffing, workload, follow-up and service recovery as delegated.
Assist with preventive, predictive and corrective maintenance governance, including CMMS quality, PM completion, backlog, failure trends and follow-up inspections.
Assist in administering fire/life-safety, emergency, permit, inspection and regulatory-compliance programs; maintain records and escalate deficiencies.
Assist the Director with asset-condition reviews, lifecycle risk evaluation and development of maintenance and replacement recommendations.
Assist the Director in developing, prioritizing and maintaining the property capital plan; prepare scopes, estimates, phasing, business cases and supporting documentation.
Coordinate and manage delegated projects, shutdowns and commissioning activities, including schedule, budget, contractor performance, change control and closeout.
Assist with engineering budget preparation, forecasting, purchasing controls and variance analysis; manage delegated cost centers or programs.
Support procurement by developing technical scopes, collecting and evaluating bids, preparing recommendations and administering delegated contracts.
Analyze utilities, asset data, BAS information, work-order performance and KPIs; identify variances and recommend corrective or efficiency actions.
Support selection, coaching, training, deployment and performance management of engineering associates; assist with succession and capability development.
Prepare reports, analyses and recommendations for the Director; support property leadership and ownership communications and manage delegated follow-up commitments.
Coordinate engineering work with operating departments to protect guests, revenue, associates and property operations.
Act for the Director when assigned or during absence.
Other duties as assigned.
KEY STRENGTHS FOR SUCCESS
Required Capabilities
Lead assigned managers, supervisors and multiple layers of engineering staff.
Translate approved direction into programs, schedules, controls and measurable follow-up.
Assist with lifecycle management, capital planning, budgeting, compliance and major-project governance.
Coordinate contractors, analyze bids, administer contracts and resolve delegated vendor issues.
Analyze facility, CMMS, KPI, utility, BAS and financial information and develop clear recommendations.
Manage cross-functional coordination, service recovery and operational communication.
Maintain broad engineering-system knowledge sufficient to oversee work, recognize risk and engage Technical Chiefs or specialists where needed.
Demonstrate readiness to act for the Director under delegated authority.
Qualifications and Evidence of Capability
Demonstrated capability to manage substantial portions of a hotel, resort or comparable facility engineering function.
Verified experience leading people, maintenance programs, contractors, compliance activity, budgets or projects.
Demonstrated ability to prepare scopes, analyses, recommendations and management reporting.
Required licenses or certifications applicable to delegated property responsibilities.
Capability may be evidenced through qualifications, verified experience, operating results, project records and direct observation.
Preferred Qualifications and Experience
Degree or technical education in engineering, facilities, construction, building systems or a related field.
Relevant trade, facilities, energy, safety or project-management credentials.
Experience in hospitality or another continuously operated, guest-facing or mission-critical facility.
Experience supporting capital planning, asset lifecycle management, occupied projects or complex MEP operations.
Working Conditions
Availability to support significant property emergencies and to act for the Director when assigned.
Periodic work in mechanical rooms, roofs, back-of-house areas, construction zones and other operational environments.
Property-specific access, PPE, environmental and scheduling requirements apply.
This job posting is for a position at a hotel that is owned and operated by an independent franchisee. The franchisee controls all aspects of the hotel’s employment practices, including recruiting, hiring, salary, benefits and compensation decisions, and the collection and processing of the personal data that you provide on this website. If you accept this position, you will be employed by a franchisee and not by Hilton. You will not be eligible for compensation or benefits from Hilton. You will be eligible for compensation or benefits only as may be provided to you by the independent franchisee.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,386 open Engineering Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$80K/yr
- Indiana median$130–266K/yr29 salary ranges
- US median$145–265K/yr1,963 salary ranges
This rate, $80K, is 60% below the Indiana median midpoint ($202K) — in the lowest quarter of Engineering Management salary ranges in Indiana.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 33 open Engineering Management jobs in Indiana and 2,386 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- Engineering Management postings that state a minimum ask for 8 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 5 to 10 years (2,049 postings).
- Education
- 886 of the 2,386 open Engineering Management jobs (37%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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