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City of Los Angeles Licensed Steam Engineer

ABM Industries

Los Angeles, CAFull-time$62–68/hrPosted todayStill listed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$62–68/hr
Location
Los Angeles, CA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

City Of Los Angeles 500 HP License

Job overview

ABM is seeking a Licensed Steam Building Engineer to support daily building-system operations, including HVAC, mechanical and electrical equipment, maintenance, and repairs. The role also responds to customer requests, manages work orders, and provides engineering support across systems and maintenance programs. The position requires a City of Los Angeles 500 HP License and at least three years of engineering experience.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Building Systems OperationsHVAC MaintenanceMechanical SystemsElectrical SystemsEquipment RepairProblem SolvingCustomer ServiceEngineering SupportMaintenance Program ManagementCost-Benefit AnalysisProject ManagementRegulatory Compliance

Qualifications

3+ Years Engineering ExperienceCity of Los Angeles 500 HP LicenseTen-Year Work History

Full job description

ABM, a leading provider of integrated facility solutions, is looking for a Licensed Steam Building Engineer.

The Building Engineer supports the designated leadership with the daily operations of all building systems. This includes hard surface maintenance and repair, basic carpentry and metal work, operating, maintaining and repairing all facility system equipment associated with HVAC operations and mechanical and electrical systems. The Building Engineer will also respond to customer requests and submit and close work orders as necessary and perform other duties as assigned.

Pay Range is: $62/HR to $68/HR DOE The pay listed is the salary range for this position. An offer will vary based on the applicant's education, experience, skills, abilities, geographic location, and alignment with market data.

Benefit Information: This is a union position and as such, will include union benefits.

Essential Functions:

• Follows safe practices and complies with company and regulatory standards.

• Qualified to operate or assist in operating all heating and ventilating equipment, engines, turbines, motors, combustion engines, pumps, air compressors, ice and refrigerating machines, air conditioning units, fans and siphons on the site assigned.

• Must be flexible and willing to complete all tasks as assigned.

• You will be responsible for working with both internal and external customers on technical issues, work scope recommendations and failure investigations.

• You could work in a variety of engineering departments based on current needs.

Responsibilities:

• Provides engineering support for a wide range of systems, maintenance programs, engines as well as operational engineering functions.

• Must be able to understand, analyze and seek solutions to the design, operation, maintenance, performance or repair of vehicles/equipment and their components.

• Should be able to logically approach problem solving, define a maintenance program or configuration and ensure a safe and legal operation.

• Reviews Service Bulletins (SBs) from manufacture or component manufacture.

• Develops solutions and implementation plans, project justification, cost/benefit analysis, and overall management of project implementation and coordinate warranty recovery on SBs that are applicable.

• Organizes and manages the priorities for assigned responsibilities and accomplishes the work process to meet all deliverable for projects as well as maintenance program changes and technical specification revisions.

• Coordinates work with other operational groups to ensure safety, regulatory compliance, operational reliability and operational efficiency.

Qualifications:

• 3 plus years of engineering experience.

  • City of Los Angeles 500 HP License.

• Engineering skill sets which can be applied to a range of systems, maintenance programs and engines.

• Must meet all requirements to receive approval for working in specific ATS environments (if applicable), including ten-year work history if available.

• Customer Service Experience.

How this job compares

Set against the 617 open Building Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$62–68/hr
  • California median$45–50/hr79 hourly ranges
  • US median$36–43/hr268 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $65/hr, is 37% above the California median midpoint ($48/hr) — in the top quarter of Building Engineer hourly ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 103 open Building Engineer jobs in California and 617 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience — less than three in four Building Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 4 years, across 527 postings).
Education
42 of the 617 open Building Engineer jobs (7%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 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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