Assistant Director of Engineering

Duties

• Direct daily Engineering operations, assign priorities, and ensure critical and guest-impacting work orders are followed through to completion.
• Maintain building and equipment reliability through preventive maintenance, inspections, root-cause analysis, and timely permanent repairs.
• Cook up Engineering readiness for high occupancy, conventions, major events, severe weather, utility interruptions, and other emergencies.
• Support demand-based scheduling that provides qualified coverage, appropriate skill mix, and compliance with departmental labor standards.
• Coach, train, counsel, and hold colleagues accountable to Hyatt service standards, safety procedures, documentation requirements, and quality workmanship.
• Manage vendors and contractors, including work scopes, permits, code compliance, safety, quality, schedules, and cost control.
• Aid with operating budgets, capital planning, purchasing, inventory, project tracking, and repair-versus-replacement recommendations.
• Monitor Working Order, preventive-maintenance completion, backlog, room downtime, repeat calls, utility performance, and other departmental KPIs.
• Support energy, water, leak-detection, building-automation, Green Team, and Green Key Global sustainability initiatives.
• Partner with hotel departments and serve as acting department head when assigned or when the Director of Engineering is unavailable.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years engineering management experience in a mid to large size hotel (minimum 700 rooms)
• 4 year college degree from accredited university
• Solid work history with exceptional professional references from previous supervisors
• Demonstrated ability to effectively interact with people of diverse socioeconomic, cultural, disability, and ethnic backgrounds
• Service oriented style with professional presentation skills
• A true desire to satisfy the needs of others in a fast paced environment
• Refined verbal communication skills
• Must be able to work a flexible schedule, including weekends and holiday
• Proficient in basic computer skills as well as hotel systems (such as Opera, Hotsos, Rex, etc.)