Engineering Manager-Carpenter Hotel

Description:

The role:

The ideal Engineering Manager role is focused on maintenance, building systems, safety inspections, vendor coordination, and leading the engineering team at Carpenter Hotel.

The ideal candidate will have previous hotel maintenance experience and familiarity with systems such as HVAC, chilled water, domestic hot water, and energy management.

In this role, the Maintenance Managersupports the Area Director of Engineering in coordinating the day-to-day operations of the Engineering Department. The position plays an important role in assigning, tracking, and following up on maintenance work, coordinating preventive maintenance programs, supporting contractors and vendors, and ensuring the hotel’s facilities, equipment, and building systems remain safe, reliable, efficient, and well maintained.

About Carpenter Hotel:

Opened in fall 2018, this South Austin hotel is one with its lush surroundings. Carpenter Hotel features a pool with a community deck and Q Hut pavilion. Each of its 93 rooms comes with a terrace. Take in the scenery with fare from our all-day Coffee Bar or enjoy a meal on the patio or in the dining rooms of our restaurant, Carpenters Hall.

The hotel is nestled in an old pecan grove on the edge of Zilker Park in South Austin. It’s an easy walk to Lady Bird Lake, downtown, and central to everything worth doing.

Responsibilities of the Role:

• Coordinate daily Engineering and Maintenance activities, ensuring work orders and service requests are properly assigned, tracked, documented, and completed in a timely manner.

• Monitormaintenance requests, ensuring accurate updates, effective follow-up, and timely closure.

• Coordinatepreventive maintenance schedules for hotel equipment and facilities, including guestrooms, public areas, kitchens, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, refrigeration, elevators, life-safety systems, BAS, and building infrastructure.

• Assistthe Director of Engineering with daily operations, scheduling, planning, reporting, and administrative responsibilities.

• Assignwork to the Engineering team in the absence of the Area Director of Engineering

• Communicate with Engineering, Front Office, Housekeeping, Food & Beverage, Security, and other departments regarding maintenance concerns, priorities, shutdowns, and equipment outages.

• Assist with guestroom maintenance, room inspections, out-of-order rooms, and engineering-related guest requests tominimize disruption to hotel operations.

• Coordinate contractor and vendor visits, including scheduling access, work permits, site requirements, safety procedures, and follow-up on completed work.

• Maintainaccurate records related to inspections, preventive maintenance, equipment servicing, warranties, contracts, invoices, and regulatory compliance.

• Assistwith purchase orders, quotations, invoices, parts ordering, and tracking of Engineering-related expenses.

• Monitorinventory levels for Engineering parts, tools, supplies, and consumables, and coordinate replenishment as required.

• Supportenergy-management initiatives by monitoring building systems and identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce operating costs.

• Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly Engineering reports, maintenance updates, and outstanding-work summaries for management review.

• Assistwith departmental meetings, training coordination, staff communication, and the maintenance of Engineering procedures and documentation.

• Ensureall Engineering work is completed in accordance with Hyatt standards, health and safety requirements, manufacturer recommendations, and applicable laws, codes, and regulations.

• Followup on safety deficiencies and ensure corrective actions are properly documented and completed.

• Maintainconfidentiality and professionalism when handling departmental records, vendor information, invoices, access-control records, and operational matters.

• Provideadministrative and operational support to the Engineering leadership team and perform other duties as assigned.

Primary Location: US-TX-Austin

Organization: Carpenter Hotel

Pay Basis: Yearly

Job Level: Full-time

Job: Engineering/Facility Maintenance

Req ID: AUS011102

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