Hotel: 

Des Moines Embassy Suites

101 E Locust St

Des Moines, IA 50309

Chief Maintenance Engineer

Full time

Atrium SPIRIT – where teamwork, passion and appreciation ignite service excellence

Join Atrium Hospitality as the Chief Engineer at the Des Moines Embassy Suites and play a vital role in delivering an exceptional guest experience. This position requires a strategic leader to manage maintenance operations, uphold safety and efficiency standards, and drive team performance. If you're a results-driven professional with a commitment to operational excellence, we’d love to discuss how you can make a lasting impact on our property!

The Des Moines Embassy Suites is seeking a dynamic Chief Engineer to ensure guests have an excellent experience through managing the engineering department and supervising maintenance operations while exhibiting leadership, integrity, initiative, composure, decision making skills, flexibility and adaptability in relation to business needs and crisis.

The Chief Engineer will be tasked with the following duties, responsibilities, and assignments: 

• Lead, develop, and train a diverse and effective team in accordance with Atrium Core Values; 

• Manage engineering associates by ensuring they understand employment practices, recommending employment decisions and corrective action, supporting performance management, and implementing discipline; 

• Maintain an adequate inventory of parts and supplies;  

• Troubleshoot and repair malfunctions in mechanical and electrical systems and other equipment throughout the hotel;  

• Participate in the development of the engineering and Capital budget, which at times involves strategic agility and sound planning capability; 

• Create work schedules while managing and measuring departmental needs and productivity;  

• Oversee preventative maintenance assignments and the execution of Capital projects in partnership with the Atrium capital team;   

• Maintain Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), Lock Out/Tag Out procedures and all relevant Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards; 

• Track guest room requests for servicing and ensuring completion;   

• Serve as the head of the property’s loss prevention and risk management programs, managing the hotel loss prevention committees and ensuring all life safety systems are code compliant with the brand and the authority having jurisdiction (i.e. Fire Marshall, Building Inspector, etc.);  

• Follow all company safety and security policies and procedures, including reporting accidents, injuries and unsafe work conditions to management; and 

• Any and all other work as required to complete the primary purpose of the position 

Salary Range: 60k-80k

What you will neeed to be considered for this role:

• 5+ years of engineering experience to include mechanical, electrical and plumbing
• Prior supervisory/leadership experience
• Prior responsibility for a department budget with a fundamental understanding of a P&L statement, labor costs and other R&M expenses 
• Experience in managing utilities and energy systems
• Understanding of capital planning and replacement cycles
• Experience with