Hotel Engineer Maintenance

Engineers are responsible for providing service and repairs to hotel equipment including but not limited to electrical, plumbing, steam, gas, fire and safety, HVAC refrigeration, interior, paint and decorating, and respond to inquiries and problems in an efficient manner.

Task

• Inspect, operate, or test machinery or equipment to diagnose machine malfunctions.
• Perform routine maintenance, such as inspecting drives, motors, or belts, checking fluid levels, replacing filters, or doing other preventive maintenance actions.
• Diagnose mechanical problems and determine how to correct them, checking blueprints, repair manuals, or parts catalogs, as necessary.
• Repair and perform regular maintenance of machines, equipment, or structures
• Assemble, install, or repair wiring, electrical or electronic components, pipe systems, plumbing, machinery, or equipment.
• Order parts, supplies, or equipment from catalogs or suppliers.
• Plan and lay out repair work, using diagrams, drawings, blueprints, maintenance manuals, or schematic diagrams.
• Perform general cleaning duties of buildings or properties.
• Paint or repair roofs, windows, doors, floors, woodwork, plaster, drywall, or other parts of building structures.
• Operate cutting torches or welding equipment to cut or join metal parts.
• Record type and cost of maintenance or repair work.

Work Activities

• Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material
• Handling and Moving Objects
• Performing General Physical Activities
• Getting Information and repair orders, promptly completing each
• Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment
• Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
• Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
• Making Decisions and Solving Problems within scope of business 
• Perform any additional duties as outlined by the manager on duty

Technical Skills

• Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
• Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.
• Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
• Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
• Controlling operations of equipment or systems.

System Skills

• Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
• Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system. 
• Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.