Chief Building Engineer

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This role is well suited to an ambitious facilities leader ready to assume technical authority, people leadership, and operational ownership of a complex, high reliability site.

You will directly lead a 5-7-person facilities technician team while serving as the site's primary technical escalation point.

You will 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.

• You will 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

• You will provide ownership of site electrical infrastructure, including normal and emergency power systems, switchgear, panels, UPS systems, generators, and coordination of electrical maintenance and upgrades.

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

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

This position may suit you best if you are familiar with what is below, and would like to develop your career with Healthineers:

• You demonstrate strong people leadership skills, including coaching, performance management, development planning, scheduling, and accountability for a skilled facilities workforce.

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

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

• You 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.

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

• You are willing to support a 24/7 facilities operation, including participation in an on-call rotation and emergency response leadership.

• You communicate effectively with site leaders...