Chief Building Engineer

About the role

Directly lead a 5–7-person facilities technician team while serving as the site’s primary technical escalation point.

Lead and supervise a multi-disciplinary facilities team (5-7 technicians), establishing clear work assignments, shift coverage, cross-training plans, and back-up coverage to ensure uninterrupted 24/7 operations.

Oversee safe operation, maintenance, and optimization of critical building systems including chiller plants, HVAC, CDA, steam boilers, BMS, and site utilities, acting as the technical authority for the facility.

Own and continuously improve the Preventative Maintenance (PM) Program using approved CMMS software, prioritizing resources, coordinating downtimes, and validating PM effectiveness across all trades.

Manage parts, tools, service contracts, purchase order requisitions, and budgets, ensuring adequate inventory, critical spares, and vendor coverage to support the facilities team.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate strong people leadership skills, including coaching, performance management, development planning, scheduling, and accountability for a skilled facilities workforce.
• Structure daily and weekly work planning, balancing corrective maintenance, PMs, projects, and regulatory commitments across a multi-trade team.
• Maintain effective relationships with contractors and vendors, ensuring safe execution, schedule adherence, and quality workmanship for mechanical, electrical, and control systems.
• Enforce safety, regulatory, and compliance standards, ensuring OSHA, Cal/OSHA, electrical safety (NFPA 70e), lockout/tagout, confined space, Hot-Work, and internal EHS procedures are consistently followed.
• Lead investigations, CAPAs, and non-conformances related to facilities equipment and infrastructure, driving root-cause analysis and sustainable corrective actions.
• Support a 24/7 facilities operation, including participation in an on-call rotation and emergency response leadership.
• Communicate effectively with site leadership, translating technical risks into operational impact and capital planning recommendations.

Requirements

• 5-7 years of progressive experience with industrial or regulated facilities systems, including chiller plants (York preferred), HVAC, Gas-fired boilers, CDA, BMS, plumbing, fabrication, and utilities.
• 5-7 years of experience managing electrical infrastructure, including power distribution, emergency power systems, UPS, generators, and electrical safety practices.
• 5-7 years experience of direct leadership experience managing facilities or maintenance teams in a manufacturing, laboratory, or regulated environment and comprehensive understanding of troubleshooting for mechanical/electrical/pneumatic systems.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree preferred (Engineering, Facilities Management, or related); equivalent experience will be considered.

Skills

Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, performance management, development planning, scheduling, and accountability for a skilled facilities workforce.

Structuring daily and weekly work planning, balancing corrective maintenance, PMs, projects, and regulatory commitments across a multi-trade team.

Maintaining effective relationships with contractors and vendors, ensuring safe execution, schedule adherence, and quality workmanship for mechanical, electrical, and control systems.

Enforcing safety, regulatory, and compliance standards, ensuring OSHA, Cal/OSHA, electrical safety (NFPA 70e), lockout/tagout, confined space, Hot-Work, and internal EHS procedures are consistently followed.

Leading investigations, CAPAs, and non-conformances related to facilities equipment and infrastructure, driving root-cause analysis and sustainable corrective actions.

Supporting a 24/7 facilities operation, including participation in an on-call rotation and emergency response leadership.

Communicating effectively with site leadership, translating technical risks into operational impact and capital planning recommendations.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Life insurance
• Long-term and short-term disability insurance
• Paid parking/public transportation
• Paid time off
• Paid sick and safe time

Pay

The Base Pay Range For This Position Is $129,900 - $178,618 Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Schedule

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