Chief Facilities Engineer

Description

Manage Museum facilities, all aspects of operating the building, collections site and any additional facilities (currently 210,000 sqft).  Manages the overall operations, building systems and engineering functions of the facilities. Acts as Museum construction project manager per construction commitments.  Required to submit annual operating budget along with capital budgeting plans. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training of employees; planning, assigning, and directing work of engineering, construction, and vendor/contractors; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints, and resolving problems.

Key Accountabilities

A successful candidate will provide the leadership needed to maintain and operate the facilities to the industry's high standards and the Museum’s high-quality standards to satisfactorily comply with safety, security, and regulatory requirements (codes, standards, regulations).  Well-rounded in all aspects of building operating systems; mechanical, building automation systems, access controls, camera systems, electrical, plumbing, fire system, fire sprinkler, fountain or pool systems.  Ability to oversee landscaping operations.  Understand the elevators and escalators regulations and how to manage vendors and consultants.

Will provide leadership and collaboration through proactive planning, support, and communication for all guests, staff, and stakeholders, and safety and security protocol management to provide an optimal guest experience in a safe, attractive, and productive environment.

This job is responsible for the departmental budget and the planning of all financial considerations associated with running the building within high standards in order to efficiently manage costs to optimize capital expenditures. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

This position is responsible for managing the day-to-day operational activities for the Museum buildings, site, and parking facility.  The candidate must be able to organize and prioritize multiple tasks, effectively manage stressful situations, and consistently make effective, high-quality decisions; must understand complex client and customer relationships and develop open, effective and consistent communication with client and customer representatives.  The candidate will have overall responsibility for Museum facilities department budgets, accounting and finance, maintenance and operations, contract services, material, equipment and supplies purchases, and services administration and helpdesk.

• Key contributor, instrumental to Museum facilities repairs and maintenance projects with or without vendors and contractors.

• Provide general supervision and strategic planning for the facility.

• Create and maintain superior client and customer service practices.

• Develop and manage annual operating and capital expense budgets.

• Manage a staff of diverse skilled tradespeople and professionals –include managing qualified vendor/contractors.

• Coordinate the operational aspects of the property in a manner, which protects, maintains and improves the value of the Museum’s assets.

• Ensure all site management and operations practices are in compliance with high industry standards, as well as city, state and federal safety and environmental laws, codes, standards and regulations.

• Perform reporting, forecasting, and asset management on all sites.

• Implement preventive, ongoing, and anticipated maintenance/repair programs.

• Develop multi-year capital improvement project plans and manage the process to complete the capital projects.

• Manage third-party vendor contracted services as required, including periodic bidding and insurance updates.

• Monitor performance per scopes of work and contractual agreements.

• Establishes, coordinates, and implements DAA/TAS compliance.

Supervisory Responsibilities: Yes.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Associate degree (A.A.) with a minimum 10 years of experience preferred.

• Professional license or certification of RPA and SMA is desired but not required.

• Previous management of building engineering staff and back-of-house staff.

• Superior client relationship management skills.

• Ability to plan and manage budget and time constraints.

• Experience with managing multiple vendors and small capital projects.

• Proficiency with Excel; Word is preferred.

• Excellent communication and organizational skills.

• Understanding commercial leases, routine accounting methods, and trade union protocols.

• Ability to work without direct supervision.

• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.

• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Essential Functions

The physical demands described in this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to:

  • Stand, walk, climb ladders or balance

  • Use hands to touch, handle, or feel

  • Reach with hands and arms

  • Talk and hear

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to:

  • Wet and/or humid conditions

  • Moving mechanical parts

  • High precarious places

  • Outside weather conditions, extreme heat/cold

  • Risk of electrical shock

  • Loud noise levels

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to:

  • Sit, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl

  • Lift and/or move up to 20 pounds

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to:

  • Fumes or airborne particles

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.