Lead Building Service Engineer

Job No: 515241
Work Type: Staff
Location: Pomona
Categories: Unit 6 - Teamsters Local 2010, Custodial/Facilities, Probationary, Full Time

Type of Appointment: Full-time, probationary

Collective Bargaining Unit: Teamsters - Unit 6

Job Classification: Lead Building Service Engineer

Classification Salary Range: $6,034 - $7,651 per month

Anticipated Hiring Range: $6,043 - $6,444 per month

Work Hours: Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm, unless notified otherwise

Recruitment Closing Date: July 1, 2022

THE DEPARTMENT:

Facilities Planning and Management (FP&M) serves as the lead organization for planning, developing, and maintaining the campus' natural and built environments in support of the university's mission. The department seeks to preserve and enhance CPP's history, aesthetics, physical assets, and natural ecosystems through coordinated planning, design, and construction of buildings, roads, infrastructure, landscaping and other physical improvements. As an advocate on behalf of the university and its auxiliaries, FPM strives to provide facilities that meet scope, budget, operational needs and functional requirements. FPM is comprised of approximately 200 facilities professionals (FTE) that also provides maintenance services including custodial services, landscaping, recycling, building and mechanical trades, energy and utility management, fleet and auto services.

The workforce is culturally diverse and multilingual. Its composition includes full time staff throughout FPM who are also earning their degrees and many whom have graduated from Cal Poly Pomona. The staff includes licensed architects and engineers, accountants, planners, project managers, administrative staff, carpenters, plumbers, locksmiths, painters, electricians, landscape architects, computer technicians, custodians and other building and mechanical trade technicians.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Organizational Excellence

The incumbent will collaborate openly with FP&M colleagues to share information, support organizational excellence through continuous improvement and develop FP&M into a best-in-class Facilities department. FP&M colleagues include but are not limited to EH&S, Facilities Maintenance and Operations shops and the Planning, Design and Construction units, as all these operations have the potential to affect the HVAC Shop. The incumbent will work with Campus Planning and Design and Construction units to ensure that campus HVAC standards are incorporated, installed and inspected for compliance. The incumbent will collaborate with other units in FP&M to monitor and manage the interactive effects between other shops preventative maintenance and the HVAC Shop. The incumbent will participate fully in collaborative, innovative problem solving within FP&M leveraging primarily existing resources implementing the current FP&M strategy map.

Primary Responsibilities

The Lead BSE will be responsible for leading and working with one or more crews of skilled journey level and unskilled personnel engaged in a variety of repair and maintenance related to the O&M of the campus HVAC systems. The Lead BSE will be under the supervision and reports to the HVAC Supervisor. The incumbent plans, schedules and coordinates the work of multiple crews and projects; assigns work to qualified crewmembers; orders materials and equipment for the job; provides on the job training and safety instructions; and monitors work progress. The incumbent leads journey level skilled and semi-skilled assistants work including routine and preventative maintenance and repairs of the campus HVAC systems, including the operation of a large centralized plant for heating and chilling water production. Maintenance and repairs of such HVAC equipment including but not limited to chillers, coolers, air conditioning, furnace, high and low pressure boilers, heaters, cooling towers, fans, motors and drives; the analysis and chemical treatments of various systems; BMS & DDC Control Systems and all associated equipment related to HVAC work.

Plan all work and make assignments; order equipment, materials and supplies; provide on-the-job training; monitor safe work practices review, inspect and test work; coordinate multi-craft assignments; adjust to changing priorities; establish and maintain customer relations; make operational recommendations; investigate problems and follow up with solutions. The incumbent also inspects completed work to ensure it complies with specifications, applicable building and safety codes and regulations, and sound trade practices. Prepares shop related reports and drawings; maintains records and retrieves data related to work performed using manual and/or computerized record keeping systems. Maintains a safe and clean work environment; and works with other trades shops.

The incumbent also works on new construction and remodeling projects by collaborating with engineering and design consultants; reviews and interprets plans and specifications; coordinates and schedules for utility shutdowns and tie-ins to meet the overall construction objectives; inspects related work performed by contractors; and provides cost estimates of time and material for minor HVAC projects.

General Administration

Assist supervisor and manager in conducting organizational analysis, performance evaluations, coaching and mentoring staff on job functions and attendance, and finds solutions to personnel issues. Makes recommendations for continuous operational improvements in the HVAC Shop. Incumbent applies a 'team leader/coach