Assistant Chief Engineer - Oceanside, NY

Compass Group•Town of Hempstead, NY

22h•Onsite

About The Position

Crothall Healthcare, a Compass Healthcare company, provides specialized, high-quality, innovative, and responsive support services exclusively to the healthcare industry. Crothall serves many of the Top 100 Hospitals throughout its over 900 hospital partners across 46 states. Crothall has been recognized as one of Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work and Best Places to Work in Pennsylvania since 2013. Crothall has more than 32,000 team members, with core services include: Environmental Services, Patient Transportation, Patient Observation, Healthcare Facilities Management, Sterile Processing Services, and Ambulatory EVS. Learn more at www.Crothall.com. Job Summary Working as the Assistant Chief Engineer, you will help to oversee and coordinate activities of the maintenance department working under the direction of the Chief Engineer, Director and/or Assistant Director.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or equivalent work experience, or other completion of advanced courses related to management skills and technical engineering
Minimum of 3 years facilities experience with emphasis on business services within a large organization preferred
Ability to meet deadlines and make sound decisions in stressful situations
Strong customer service skills required
Supervisory skills
Ability to communicate effectively in verbal and written form
Ability to multi-task, organize, and establish priorities
Exhibit initiative, responsibility, and flexibility
Commitment to hands-on, team oriented management
Experience in leading, training and mentoring others
Proficiency using the Internet and Microsoft Office programs including MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook

Nice To Haves

Stationary Engineer Licensed by the NYC Department of Buildings
Refrigeration Engineer Licensed by the NYC Fire Department
Must be able to obtain Certificate of Fitness A-35, G-46, G-71, G-79 and P-98 or equivalents within 30 days of appointment if requested by Facilities

Responsibilities

Plans, organizes and controls activities of maintenance department under the guidelines of the Director or Assistant Director to keep staff engaged in maintaining, repairing, and renovating facility's pant and facilities.
Maintains flow and quality of work to assure timely completion of assigned workload and adherence to standards of quality control.
Reviews and evaluates existing methods, systems, programs, practices and procedures, develops and recommends changes to Director or Assistant Director. Implements or guides implementation of new and/or modifies methods, systems, programs, practices and/or procedures.
Prepares and maintains a variety of department records in compliance of JC, CMS, DNV, DOH and local authorities having jurisdiction.
Maintains adequate inventory of materials, equipment, and supplies and initiates requisitions as needed.
Serves as a member of the facility's fire response team.