Chief Building Engineer

As Chief Engineer, you'll provide operational leadership for the engineering team, ensuring machinery and systems operate safely, efficiently, and cost-effectively while achieving 100% uptime through reliability-based maintenance practices. You'll implement equipment inspection and monitoring programs, define maintenance best practices, and continuously evaluate operations to enhance effectiveness and maximize performance.

Your responsibilities include supervising engineers and maintenance staff, managing contractor activities, ensuring regulatory compliance, and maintaining all infrastructure documentation. This position offers the opportunity to lead a high-performing team while expanding your capabilities through exposure to complex facility systems.

• Monitor operation and maintain refrigeration, water cooling, air conditioning equipment, boilers, heating, ventilating systems, pumps, valves, piping, and other mechanical and electrical equipment while overseeing HVAC repair and preventive maintenance programs

• Supervise and manage engineers and maintenance staff including hiring, training, personal development, and instilling professionalism in manner and appearance across the team

• Ensure availability of adequate inventory of tools and supplies by preparing purchase orders, developing sources for stock materials, and performing periodic checks of inventory levels and equipment conditions

• Identify safety hazards and incorporate remediation to ensure staff and occupants work in a safe environment while implementing, administering, and managing safety training programs and ensuring compliance with all regulatory laws and guidelines

• Oversee contractor activities within the building, ensure the Critical Facility Work Authorization (CFWA) process is well-understood among staff and contractors, and maintain all infrastructure and compliance documentation including up-to-date building drawings and regulatory mandated records

• 7+ years of facilities-related work experience with 5+ years specifically in a leadership/managerial capacity

• Comprehensive knowledge of maintenance processes with understanding of construction planning and execution

• Exposure to HVAC, fluid handling/pumping, fluid filtering, mechanical systems, welding, and electrical systems engineering and operation

• Working knowledge of computer applications including Microsoft Office and CMMS systems with demonstrated verbal and written communication skills

• Proven record of excellent internal and external customer service

• Universal Technician certification for CFC's (or ability to obtain within 90 days of employment)

Your primary, daily work locati on is in Arlingt on , VA , with resp on sibilities that may also include neighboring sites in Fairfax and Hernd on, VA . You must resp on d to alarms, service requests, and other assigned duties at any portfolio locati on as needed. With advance notice, your current schedule may be adjusted based on operati on al or staffing needs.

Employees are expected to report to assigned locati on s and complete all work assignments as directed. Failure to accept assignments or resp on d to required service call s may result in disciplinary acti on , up to and including terminati on .