Chief Building Engineer

Job description

Join us in pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably. Our inspiring and caring environment forms a global community that celebrates diversity and individuality. We encourage you to step beyond your comfort zone, offering resources and flexibility to foster your professional and personal growth, all while valuing your unique contributions. This role is well suited to an ambitious facilities leader ready to assume technical authority, people leadership, and operational ownership of a complex, high reliability site. You will directly lead a 5–7-person facilities technician team while serving as the site’s primary technical escalation point. You will lead and supervise a multi-disciplinary facilities team (5-7 technicians), establishing clear work assignments, shift coverage, cross-training plans, and back-up coverage to ensure uninterrupted 24/7 operations. · You will oversee safe operation, maintenance, and optimization of critical building systems including chiller plants, HVAC, CDA, steam boilers, BMS, and site utilities, acting as the technical authority for the facility · You will provide ownership of site electrical infrastructure, including normal and emergency power systems, switchgear, panels, UPS systems, generators, and coordination of electrical maintenance and upgrades. · You will own and continuously improve the Preventative Maintenance (PM) Program using approved CMMS software, prioritizing resources, coordinating downtimes, and validating PM effectiveness across all trades. · You will manage parts, tools, service contracts, purchase order requisitions, and budgets, ensuring adequate inventory, critical spares, and vendor coverage to support the facilities team. This position may suit you best if you are familiar with what is below, and would like to develop your career with Healthineers: · You demonstrate strong people leadership skills, including coaching, performance management, development planning, scheduling, and accountability for a skilled facilities workforce. · You structure daily and weekly work planning, balancing corrective maintenance, PMs, projects, and regulatory commitments across a multi-trade team. · You maintain effective relationships with contractors and vendors, ensuring safe execution, schedule adherence, and quality workmanship for mechanical, electrical, and control systems. · You enforce safety, regulatory, and compliance standards, ensuring OSHA, Cal/OSHA, electrical safety (NFPA 70e), lockout/tagout, confined space, Hot-Work, and internal EHS procedures are consistently followed. · You lead investigations, CAPAs, and non-conformances related to facilities equipment and infrastructure, driving root-cause analysis and sustainable corrective actions. · You are willing to support a 24/7 facilities operation, including participation in an on-call rotation and emergency response leadership. · You communicate effectively with site leadership, translating technical risks into operational impact and capital planning recommendations. Required skills to have for the success of this role: · 5-7 years of progressive experience with industrial or regulated facilities systems, including chiller plants (York preferred), HVAC, Gas-fired boilers, CDA, BMS, plumbing, fabrication, and utilities. · 5-7 years of experience managing electrical infrastructure, including power distribution, emergency power systems, UPS, generators, and electrical safety practices. · 5-7 years experience of direct leadership experience managing facilities or maintenance teams in a manufacturing, laboratory, or regulated environment and comprehensive understanding of troubleshooting for mechanical/electrical/pneumatic systems. · Bachelor's degree preferred (Engineering, Facilities Management, or related); equivalent experience will be considered. Who we are: We are a team of more than 72,000 highly dedicated Healthineers in more than 70 countries. As a leader in medical technology, we constantly push the boundaries to create better outcomes and experiences for patients, no matter where they live or what health issues they are facing. Our portfolio is crucial for clinical decision-making and treatment pathways. How we work: When you join Siemens Healthineers, you become one in a global team of scientists, clinicians, developers, researchers, professionals, and skilled specialists, who believe in each individual’s potential to contribute with diverse ideas. We are from different backgrounds, cultures, religions, political and/or sexual orientations, and work together, to fight the world’s most threatening diseases and enable access to care, united by one purpose: to pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably. To find out more about Siemens Healthineers businesses, please visit our company page here. The base pay range for this position is: $129,900 - $178,618 Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate. If this is a commission eligible position the commission eligibility will be in accordance with the terms of the Company's plan. Commissions are based on individual performance and/or company performance. The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan. life insurance, long-term and short-term disability insurance, paid parking/public transportation, paid time off, paid sick and safe time. Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: Siemens Healthineers is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. 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