Plant Manager

The Plant Manager is responsible for ensuring the highest level of professionalism, while meeting the clients' needs, and a commitment to achieving the goal of 100% uptime throughout the engineering team. Responsible for the operational management and effective daily leadership and administration of the engineering team with the objectives of safely, efficiently, and effectively operating machinery and systems in a cost‑effective manner.

The Plant Manager will implement and manage the reliability‑based maintenance function. Responsible for protecting and improving the value of the client's assets and ensuring that building engineering systems continue to perform their intended function. The Plant Manager also executes equipment inspection and monitoring programs; defines and implements maintenance best practices to improve overall mechanical equipment uptime; and continuously evaluates current maintenance, operations and reliability methods and implements changes to enhance effectiveness at increasing value‑maximizing performance.

• Monitors operation and maintenance of refrigeration and air conditioning equipment; heating, ventilating and hot water equipment; pumps, valves, piping and filters; other mechanical and electrical equipment; reviewing logs as necessary to assure proper operation of equipment; responsible for reporting any problems/malfunctions on an as‑needed basis.
• Oversees repair and P.M. of HVAC systems; determines frequency of repair and/or P.M. for HVAC systems.
• Ensures the availability of an adequate inventory of tools and other supplies to operate the building. Specific duties include but are not limited to preparing and submitting purchase orders requests, developing sources for stock materials and performing periodic checks of inventory levels and equipment conditions.
• Responsible for overseeing the activities of contractors working within the building either as representatives of the building itself or tenants operating within the buildings.
• Oversee capital project lifecycle, including budgeting, vendor coordination, and client communication.
• Identify safety hazards within the building and incorporate the remediation of hazards to ensure the building's staff and occupants work in a safe environment. Implement, administer, and manage safety training program.
• Ensure that compliance of all regulatory laws and guidelines is met as they relate to the operation of the building's infrastructure. Responsible for alerting management of building discrepancies.
• Maintain all infrastructure and compliance documentation for the building including up‑to‑date building drawings and single lines as well as documentation mandated for the purpose of maintaining regulatory compliance with Federal, State or Local law.
• Supervise and manage building engineers and maintenance staff including hiring, training and development.
• Oversees and monitors the technical skills of employees, ensuring timely and effective record keeping, follow‑up, and re‑training as required.
• Ensure that the FWF (Facility Workflow) is a well‑understood process among the building staff, engineers, tenants and contractors who perform work on the building's critical infrastructure.
• Develop QA/QC processes.
• Facilitate MEP and infrastructure assessments.
• Provide a greater emphasis on the management of preventative vs. corrective maintenance.
• Support and continue implementation of recent staff schedule changes.
• Assist with design standards and be a resource for operational issues.
• Provides training and support aimed at expanding the capabilities of the operations staff. Specific duties include but are not limited to demonstrating the proper use and care of tools and instruments, giving hands on instruction in basic maintenance, safety and troubleshooting procedures, recommending relevant outside engineering courses for enrollment and instilling an overall level of professionalism in manner and appearance.
• Stays abreast of changes (safety and code) in the field through seminars and other educational means.
• Monitors and reviews payroll to ensure timely completion and processing and, working in conjunction with Account…