Chief Engineer (Hotel Maintenance)
Comfort Inn & Suites Paris
3035 NE Loop 286
Diana,
TX
75640
Opportunity: Chief Engineer
Manage general and preventative maintenance functions to ensure guest service and sustainability standards are achieved and maintained throughout the hotel structure.
Potential Career Path
Area Chief Engineer – Regional Director of Engineering
Essential Job Functions
- Interview, select, train, schedule, coach, and support associates, ensuring they perform in accordance with established brand or hotel standards and consistent with HHM core values.
- Maintain the hotel R&M budget.
- Conduct room inspections, and identify repair needs.
- Manage and coordinate bids, quotes and contracts for 3rdparty vendors.
- Oversee small projects, or PIPS, and manage and report on the work progress.
- Install or repair sheet rock and other wall coverings.
- Paint designated areas and items.
- Install and replace basic electrical fixtures. Replace light switches, receptacles, light bulbs, and fixtures.
- Install, replace, and program televisions.
- Perform minor plumbing functions.
- Replace and repair heating and cooling pumps as well as preventative maintenance on units.
- Troubleshoot and repair kitchen equipment.
- Perform preventative maintenance on a scheduled basis and complete work orders as necessary; keep accurate records of PMs on all rooms and equipment.
- Maintain the building exterior and “curb appeal” of entire hotel grounds
- Refurbish, paint and finish furniture and fixtures as needed.
- Test, examine, and maintain hotel’s life safety systems to ensure they are 100% operational at all times.
- Maintain repair and preventive maintenance records and coordinate compliance of service contracts.
- Perform and maintain work to local, state and Federal codes.
- Be aware of guest satisfaction scores and work toward increasing departmental and overall guest satisfaction.
- Follow sustainability guidelines and practices related to HHM’s EarthView program.
- Practice safe work habits, wear protective safety equipment and follow MSDS and OSHA standards.
- Perform other duties as requested by management.
- Provide weekly updates to the Corporate or Regional Director of Engineering.
Position Requirements
- High School diploma and/or trade school course work in related field preferred.
- Previous supervisory engineer/maintenance experience required or equivalent training.
- Certifications may be required.
Work Environment and Context
- Work schedule varies and may include working on holidays and weekends or alternate shifts.
- Requires standing for extended periods, walking, pushing, lifting up to 50 pounds, bending and reaching, climbing, stooping, kneeling or crouching.
What We Believe
People Are Our Capability – Hearts That Serve – Only Excellence – Stay Nimble - Own It
Acerca de Comfort Inn & Suites Paris
Make the most of your visit to “the second largest Paris in the world”
The Comfort Inn & Suites® offers the perfect start to your day in the “second largest Paris in the world.” Near Paris Junior College and numerous area attractions, you can relax and recharge at our comfortable hotel. Whether you’re traveling solo or with friends and family, there’s a lot to see and do. Start any visit with a photo opp by the Texas-sized replica of the Eiffel Tower topped with a cowboy hat. Spend an afternoon with a picnic by Pat Mayse Lake or explore the Santa Fe-Frisco Union Depot Train Station and Museum. We are close to the Sam Bell Maxey House State Historic Site and Paris Regional Medical Center. Take advantage of our free outdoor parking, which makes it easy for you to explore the whole area. Once you’re here, enjoy the classic amenities to make your stay comfortable and welcoming. Begin your day with a free, hot breakfast plus free WiFi to catch up on your inbox. There’s also a well-equipped fitness center with modern cardio workout equipment to get a good workout.
Each of our rooms comes with a work desk, flat-screen TV, and coffee maker delivering all the comforts of home. We’re surrounded by a huge variety of dining options, and you can easily bring leftovers back to the room since many come with a refrigerator and microwave. Families appreciate the sofa beds in each room. Whether you’re here for business or pleasure, our modern and up to date hotel offers everything you need for the perfect stay.
Acerca de HHM Hotels
An Industry Leader in Hospitality
HHM Hotels is the preferred operator to many sophisticated and institutional owners of hotel real estate, including public and private owners, across the United States and Canada. We are known for consistent outperformance in operating results, the stability of our managed portfolio and operating teams, and our unrelenting focus on people, processes, and technology. HHM Hotels is tireless in delivering results and working closely with our owners across a portfolio of 240 hotels and over $2BN in managed revenues in the United States and Canada.
MANAGEMENT
For the past 30 years, HHM Hotels has focused on building out specific and differentiated capabilities and technology to serve our owners and drive industry-leading results in the areas of revenue generation, cost management, service delivery, and associate development and retention. In particular, we have focused on developing proprietary data, processes, and business systems to drive advantage and maintain our unwavering focus on results across every aspect of our managed hotels.
INVESTMENT
HHM Hotels has a highly active and productive investment team that seeks to leverage our operating capabilities and market knowledge to source, underwrite, and introduce deals to our stable of industry-leading investment partners. We have helped put together dozens of related deals and focus carefully on potential operational efficiencies, brand or market repositioning opportunities, and other ways that we can find value through our extensive market knowledge, operating capabilities, and in-house legal, asset management, and risk management teams.
BRAND POSITIONING
Our experience with branded and independent hotels allows us to quickly determine the brand positioning within a local market to ensure the highest operational profitability. We understand the demands of hotel openings and rebranding because we’ve been on the ground to lead them, from Forbes Five-Star property openings and global product launches to corporate rebranding projects around the world.
