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Assistant Chief Engineer

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Compensation
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Location
NASHVILLE, TN
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
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Job overview

The Assistant Chief Engineer manages property and equipment maintenance, repairs, safety systems, utilities, and day-to-day department operations. The role oversees engineering employees, service requests, expenses, and departmental administration while ensuring compliance with corporate standards and applicable codes and regulations. It also supports guest and employee safety, customer satisfaction, and the effective operation of hotel facilities.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

BMS Engineering KnowledgePeople ManagementComplex Problem ManagementInvestigation and AnalysisSupervisory SkillsInformation ProvisionHearingVisionSpeech CommunicationComprehension and LiteracyLifting and CarryingBending and KneelingClimbingStandingDriving

Qualifications

2+ Years Related Experience

Full job description

Description:

Manage the implementation of all property, equipment, preventive maintenance and repairs. Monitor safety systems and utilities. Responsible for the administration of the department in compliance with all corporate standards and local, state and national codes and regulations to protect assets, guests and employees. Manager the day-to-day operations. Recommend and implement procedural changes. Monitor and control expenses.

  • Manage the Engineering employees; interview, schedule, train, develop, coach and counsel,

  • provide open communication

  • Assist with resolving problems and recommend discipline

  • Prioritize service requests; schedule and monitor the service performed to ensure customer satisfaction, safety and convenience.

  • Test and examine the safety systems to ensure they are 100% operational at all times to protect the asset, guests and employees.

  • Monitor utility consumption to determine the effectiveness of current systems.

  • Review purchase requests and monitor expenses to ensure budgeted goals are met/exceeded.

  • Assist in the administration of the department by preparing and maintaining schedules, logs, records or other

documentation to ensure a smooth operation and minimize liabilities

  • Perform special projects and other responsibilities as assigned

Qualifications:

  • Requires advanced knowledge of the BMS/Engineering profession

  • knowledge required for management of people and complex problems

  • Requires investigating and analyzing current activities and/or information in a specialized field involving readily

  • Requires supervisory skills

  • Ability to provide information and associated services to hotel management and guests

  • Excellent hearing required to communicate with management and staff.

  • Excellent vision required to visually check hotel premises.

  • Excellent speech communication skills required to communicate with management and staff.

  • Excellent comprehension and literacy required for procedures, reports, instructions, receipts.

  • Frequent lifting, pushing, pulling and carrying weights up to 25 lbs. and greater, for all hotel equipment and machinery.

  • Frequent bending and/or kneeling throughout the day for repairs and maintenance of hotel property, equipment and machinery.

  • Mobility throughout the hotel, all floors, varying heights and distances. Use of ladders, lifts and climbing required at times.

  • Continuous standing required in varying degrees throughout the day.

  • Driving - limited driving on an occasional basis for supplies, equipment, etc. Generally within 20 miles.

  • Experience required by position is from two to three full years of full employment in a related position with this company or other organization(s).

Primary Location: US-TN-Nashville

Organization: Dream Nashville

Pay Basis: Yearly

Job Level: Full-time

Job: Engineering/Facility Maintenance

Req ID: NAS002993

Hyatt is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, age, religion, disability, veteran status, genetic information, citizenship status or any other group protected by law.

How this job compares

Set against the 2,143 open Engineering Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Tennessee median$135–280K/yr37 salary ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 42 open Engineering Management jobs in Tennessee and 2,143 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Tennessee
Experience
This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Engineering Management postings that state a minimum ask for (median 8 years, across 1,845 postings).
Education
891 of the 2,143 open Engineering Management jobs (42%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 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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