Facility Specialist, Operating Engineer 2

Your opportunity

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

The Facility Operating Engineer Level 2 is responsible for bringing best-in-class knowledge and effort to operating and maintaining mechanical equipment, and buildings on Schwab campus facilities.  Operating Engineers partner closely with the Facility Managers, vendors, and other engineering staff to ensure a well maintained, safe and productive environment for Schwab employees. Operating Engineers are the gatekeepers and stewards of our Critical Environments and systems. 

What You’ll Do:

• Troubleshoot and perform routine maintenance on mechanical equipment such as generators, air handlers, cooling towers, chillers, boilers, VAVs, FPBs, UPS, and water treatment systems
• Demonstrate interest in the operation of critical facility space and drive to deliver best in class facilities
• Perform routine adjustments to and data retrieval from, BAS software to solve environmental comfort and mechanical calibrations
• Conduct daily rounds and readings of various building components, engineering logs and data records
• Perform work order administration ensuring accurate and timely information, photos and file attachments are made using the company provided CMMS system
• Perform general building maintenance as assigned
• Actively participate in incident response
• Work side by side with vendor partners during planned maintenance, or break-fix in an observer role or active participant
• Pass competency-based exams on equipment operation as a condition of employment
• Complete required safety and compliance training
• Report to the Technical Facility Manager
• Any other duties as directed by the Technical Facility Manager

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site five days per week in the specified location.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without employer sponsorship.

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.

What you have

To ensure that we fulfill our promise of “challenging the status quo,” this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.

Required Qualifications:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
• 4+ years of related facility maintenance experience, preferably working on Class A building campus settings
• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds, climb ladders, and work in a commercial building environment where space and movement may be limited
• Basic skills with Microsoft Office Suite
• Demonstrated knowledge of CMMS and other standard automation normally used in modern business settings to include mobile device technology
• Experienced using small, elevated lifts and ladders for high work
• Understanding of electrical distribution
• Ability to interpret one-line drawings
• Demonstrated knowledge of sequence of operations of critical equipment such as generators, transfer switches and UPS systems
• Comfortable multi-tasking, staying calm under pressure and understands what results are expected and the priority of the results
• Ability to work periodic overtime
• On-call duty and shift work as required
• Ability to comprehend and interpret instructions, short correspondence, and email inquiries
• Ability to write routine correspondence, log-notes, and status updates in work order systems
• Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from co-workers or supervisors
• Good phone etiquette and the ability to ask questions to seek understanding of problems and conflict resolution

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certifications or completed degree programs from accredited trade schools, or Mechanical vendors such as York or Trane
• 2+ years of critical facilities operations experience
• Desire to continue your education in the areas of Building Science with a focus on electrical or mechanical operations
• Universal CFC certification
• Electrical and or Mechanical license