Operating Engineer

What this job involves As an Operating Engineer in the aerospace and defense industry, your main responsibility will revolve around the operation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair of facility equipment across all systems. Your technical expertise in one specific craft area such as Electrical, HVAC, Piping/Plumbing, or Central Utility Plant Operations will be crucial, and you will also be expected to possess multi-skilled abilities in other areas to effectively handle daily and weekly work assignments.

What is your day to day?

• Perform maintenance, monitoring repairs to the Mechanical, Plumbing, Structural, Furniture, Fire, Life Safety, and Control systems for the facility to keep facility and building systems up to applicable standards as assigned.

• Maintains responsibility for facility services, preventative maintenance, purchasing and inventory control, contracted maintenance, general maintenance, and technical proficiency.

• Maintenance of the equipment will include cleaning, inspecting, calibrating, and changing parts to maintain the HVAC systems and associated equipment at optimum performance levels.

• Record readings and make adjustments where necessary to ensure proper operation of equipment.

• Comply with departmental policy for the safe storage, usage, and disposal of hazardous materials; maintain a clean and safe workplace.

• Perform periodic checks of tool and instrument inventory.

• Monitor the quality and pricing of maintenance work performed by outside contractors.

• Required to bend, sit, kneel, squat, stand, reach and lay as required to access equipment components for extended periods of time.

• May be required to work exposed to heat, sunlight, rain, cold, daylight and night-time hours.
  

Desired experience and technical skills

Required

• High School diploma or GED equivalent

• Ability to analyze the operation of various Commercial or Industrial Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and HVAC systems, determine the cause of any problems/malfunctions and take corrective action.

• EPA 608 Type II Certification.

• Working knowledge of computer applications including Word and Excel.

Preferred

• EPA 608 Universal Certificationa plus.

• 3-8 years experience maintaining and repairing commercial building systems.

• Two years of trades schooling in electrical system design, refrigeration, and HVACdesired.