Lead Operating Engineer

JLL

(Glendale, Arizona)

Full Time

Job Posting Details

About JLL

We’re JLL. We’re a professional services and investment management firm specializing in real estate. We help organizations around the world achieve their ambitions by owning, occupying and investing in real estate.

We’re a Fortune 500 company. We work across 80 countries, in 280 different offices, with a team of over 60,000 individuals. And we look after a property portfolio of over 4bn square feet, all on behalf of our clients.

Responsibilities

**Purpose:**
 
To effectively and efficiently operate and maintain all HVAC and related equipment, providing environmental control to the property and to perform maintenance from tenant requests.
 
**Duties and Responsibilities:**
 
**Essential Functions**
 
* Maintains good tenant relations through prompt and courteous response to tenant requests within the guidelines set forth by JLL.
* Makes adjustments and changes on HVAC equipment
 * Chiller and reheat adjustments for proper operation.
 * Building environmental controls.
 * Starts and stops equipment.
* Performs general maintenance and operation of central plant equipment.
* Monitors systems for potential problems (or existing problems) and formulates solutions to be presented to the Chief Engineer or Assistant Chief Engineer for appropriate action.
* Performs all maintenance in a safe manner.
* Assists in training of all personnel in operation and maintenance procedures involved within the property.
* Reviews on a regular basis and is prepared to follow all current emergency procedures set forth by JLL and the assigned property.
* Maintains ethical, professional and courteous relations with contractors.
* Acts as a team member with all employees of the management staff.
* Complies with all written JLL and regional company policies.
* Purchases parts and supplies according to company policy as directed by Chief Engineer or Assistant Chief Engineer.
* Makes adjustments and changes to HVAC and related equipment to maintain established comfort zones.   These adjustments and changes must be within the guidelines set forth by the Chief Engineer and/or Assistant Chief Engineer.
* Aids in the ordering, stocking and inventory of parts and supplies as directed by the Chief Engineer or Assistant Chief Engineer.
 
**Other Functions**
 
* Participates in the inventory of supplies and parts.
* Maintains the integrity of all mechanical spaces.
* Performs preventative maintenance program duties including record keeping.
* Assumes additional responsibilities and authority as delegated by the Chief Engineer or the Assistant Chief Engineer.

Purpose:

To effectively and efficiently operate and maintain all HVAC and related equipment, providing environmental control to the property and to perform maintenance from tenant requests.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Essential Functions

Maintains good tenant relations through prompt and courteous response to tenant requests within the guidelines set forth by JLL.
Makes adjustments and changes on HVAC equipment
- Chiller and reheat adjustments for proper operation.
- Building environmental controls.
- Starts and stops equipment.
Performs general maintenance and operation of central plant equipment.
Monitors systems for potential problems (or existing problems) and formulates solutions to be presented to the Chief Engineer or Assistant Chief Engineer for appropriate action.
Performs all maintenance in a safe manner.
Assists in training of all personnel in operation and maintenance procedures involved within the property.
Reviews on a regular basis and is prepared to follow all current emergency procedures set forth by JLL and the assigned property.
Maintains ethical, professional and courteous relations with contractors.
Acts as a team member with all employees of the management staff.
Complies with all written JLL and regional company policies.
Purchases parts and supplies according to company policy as directed by Chief Engineer or Assistant Chief Engineer.
Makes adjustments and changes to HVAC and related equipment to maintain established comfort zones. These adjustments and changes must be within the guidelines set forth by the Chief Engineer and/or Assistant Chief Engineer.
Aids in the ordering, stocking and inventory of parts and supplies as directed by the Chief Engineer or Assistant Chief Engineer.

Other Functions

Participates in the inventory of supplies and parts.
Maintains the integrity of all mechanical spaces.
Performs preventative maintenance program duties including record keeping.
Assumes additional responsibilities and authority as delegated by the Chief Engineer or the Assistant Chief Engineer.

Ideal Candidate

**Essential Physical Abilities:**
 
* Visually inspect machinery and building.
* Walks up and down stairs for inspections and emergency procedure practice or implementation.
* Detects emergency alarms - auditory and/or visual.
* Window washing equipment inspections are made by examining the rig.(when required)
* Cleaning inspections require getting on hands and knees to inspect inaccessible areas.
* Ability to work weekends and extended hours.
* Climb ladders to adjust air flow and make inspections above ceiling.
* Trained and capable of moving chemical distribution containers, drums and tanks via pallet jack or when required, forklift.
 
**Essential Knowledge and Skills:**
 
* Reads and understands equipment instruction manuals.
* Writes reports using all parts of speech with proper format, punctuation, spelling and grammar.
* Uses proper English when interacting with tenants.
* Computes mathematical equations on a chiller performance test.
* Communicates essential information needed for decision making.
* Interprets a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral or schedule form.
* Identifies and resolves mechanical problems.
* Understands basic building system design and operation, i.e., fire system, domestic water system, HVAC system and electrical distribution system.
* Uses proper organizational skills and compiles appropriate information to plan and complete Negotiates with vendors for fair prices.
* Able to read and interpret blue prints and schematics.
* Produces computerized spreadsheets.
 
**Experience:**

* Two years of building operations and maintenance
* Stationary equipment engineer operator license (where applicable)
* Boiler operator license (where applicable)
 
**Education:**

* High School Diploma
* BOMA Engineering School (recommended)

Essential Physical Abilities:

Visually inspect machinery and building.
Walks up and down stairs for inspections and emergency procedure practice or implementation.
Detects emergency alarms - auditory and/or visual.
Window washing equipment inspections are made by examining the rig.(when required)
Cleaning inspections require getting on hands and knees to inspect inaccessible areas.
Ability to work weekends and extended hours.
Climb ladders to adjust air flow and make inspections above ceiling.
Trained and capable of moving chemical distribution containers, drums and tanks via pallet jack or when required, forklift.

Essential Knowledge and Skills:

Reads and understands equipment instruction manuals.
Writes reports using all parts of speech with proper format, punctuation, spelling and grammar.
Uses proper English when interacting with tenants.
Computes mathematical equations on a chiller performance test.
Communicates essential information needed for decision making.
Interprets a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral or schedule form.
Identifies and resolves mechanical problems.
Understands basic building system design and operation, i.e., fire system, domestic water system, HVAC system and electrical distribution system.
Uses proper organizational skills and compiles appropriate information to plan and complete Negotiates with vendors for fair prices.
Able to read and interpret blue prints and schematics.
Produces computerized spreadsheets.