Chief Engineer

• People
• Direct daily engineering needs, plan and assign work ensuring you always have the right team in place
• Develop your team and improve their performance through coaching and feedback, and create performance and development goals for colleagues - recognise good performance
• Maintain relations with outside contacts including guests, regulatory agencies, others as needed

Accountabilities

• • Provide advice to senior management on all aspects of engineering support, environmental controls and the operational efficiency of the property.
• • Ensure the effective financial management of the engineering department by setting maintenance budgets, capital works program’s and engineering plans and ensuring that performance against there are regularly monitored and reviewed. Responsible for the general cost control aspects of maintenance, the preparation of departmental cost budgets and their implementation and submission to management.
• • Control of Capital Project Planning, in liaison with management, to ensure capital funding is effectively allocated and budgeted in accordance with company directives and philosophy.
• • Plan, implement and administer an energy management program by establishing energy reduction objectives, the maintenance of records and regular reporting of performance against these objectives.
• • Ensure adherence to all statutory regulations and fire codes by regularly reviewing policies and safety procedures. Ensure that any tests and inspections required on plant by statutory authorities are carried out as and when required and that all records and documentation associated with such tests and surveys are correctly kept and/or displayed. Ensure that the hotel fulfills all compliance requirements.

Responsible business

• Maintain and order parts and supplies whilst minimising waste and maintaining “green” initiatives
• May be responsible for hotel security to minimise risk of theft, crime and other hazards
• Ad-hoc duties – unexpected moments when we have to pull together to get a task done

Guest Experience

• Help guests needs to ensure their satisfaction
• Use a maintenance programme to ensure the hotel is maintained and in service for our guests