Mechanical Facilities Engineer
The Facilities Engineer is responsible for developing, implementing and monitoring facilities engineering and maintenance programs across the client portfolio sites, including heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), process plumbing, electrical and infrastructure with focus on lab spaces and buildings. The Lab Facilities Engineer works with a team of engineers, technicians, and contractors to ensure implementation of best practices and to implement continuous improvement across the installation infrastructure and associated processes. This role interacts with all members of the facilities manager organization, including senior management, projects and operations teams, field technicians, and client representatives.
Previous experience in the design and commissioning of lab spaces will be beneficial to this role and is desired.
Responsibilities
Perform facilities condition assessments of building portfolio and associated infrastructure.
Perform risk assessment for planned project and maintenance work to mitigate impacts to operations.
Utilize data from building management system (BMS) and site assessments to determine capacity and utilization of mechanical and process systems via trend analysis and engineering calculations.
Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) as needed to resolve identify fundamental design, operational, or maintenance issues and to recommend improvements to design guidelines and other processes.
Conduct design reviews for infrastructure and tenant improvement (TI) projects to ensure compliance with relevant standards, design guidelines, best practices, and stakeholder expectations.
Proactively identify process deficiencies and other issues, and develop and implement improvements.
Ensure internal records and databases are verified via ongoing quality assurance / quality control.
Prepare and present reporting to stakeholders as appropriate to drive effective solutions.
Represent client on project team to ensure stakeholder requirements are appropriately addressed and all issues are effectively resolved.
Recommend new processes, and changes to existing processes, to demonstrate continuous improvement.
Coordinate engineering team resources to meet expectations for various programs and services to stakeholders of the Engineering department.
Provide subject matter expertise (SME) within the team and internal stakeholders to ensure holistic and robust analysis with high quality and clear value to the client and other stakeholders.
Demonstrate ownership of assigned projects, tasks, and initiatives to drive solutions to closure.
Qualifications required
Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or a related field. (Associates degree with additional relevant experience may be considered.)
5+ years of experience in mechanical engineering
Experience with electrical, HVAC, plumbing, and fire protection equipment and systems
Demonstrated ability to organize and manage multiple simultaneous projects
Demonstrated experience in trend analysis
Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Preferred Qualifications
Engineering and/or Industry certification (i.e. P.E., CRL, CMRP, PMP)
Previous experience in design, commissioning and operational support of systems.
Previous experience with building management systems (BMS)
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