Operating Engineer Level 3

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. Please note: This position is M-F during standard business hours fully onsite. It is only available in the areas listed. Candidate must reside or be willing to relocate on their own to one of the listed areas. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without employer sponsorship.

The Facility Operating Engineer Level 3 is responsible to bring best-in-class knowledge and effort operating, maintaining,troubleshooting, and repairing mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and building systems 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.  This opportunity is located at our 1.1M square foot campus located in Westlake, Texas.

What You’ll Do:

• Responsible for troubleshooting and performing preventive and corrective maintenance on mechanical, electrical and plumbing equipment such as generators, air handlers, cooling towers, chillers, boilers, VAVs, FPBs, UPS, and water treatment systems. Must have the ability to troubleshoot and analyze the operation of these various systems, determine the cause of any problems/malfunctions and take corrective action as required.
• Trusted and proven operation of critical facility space and infrastructure. Recent practical, hands-on experience with critical environment systems (Generators, UPS, Battery Systems, Automatic Transfer Switches, & Building Controls Systems, Etc) is mandatory.
• Occasionally, respond to and complete facility service requests and work orders as needed, ensuring that work performed in these areas is accomplished efficiently with a minimum amount of disruption and inconvenience to the employees.
• Responsible for performing routine and advanced adjustments to, and data retrieval from, BAS software to solve environmental comfort and mechanical calibrations.
• Must be able to operate independently.
• Conducts daily rounds and readings of various building components, engineering logs and data records.
• Performs work order administration ensuring accurate and timely information, photos and file attachments are made using the company provided CMMS system.
• Orders parts and supplies required for repairs, maintenance and installation of new equipment as required and maintains inventory levels as needed.
• Actively participates in incident response.
• Responsible for oversight of vendor partners during contracted maintenance work, or break-fix repairs ensuring work isperformed to company standards.
• Maintain up-to-date files of building plans, equipment specifications, and all maintenance logs and securing equipment manuals and drawings from the installers/contractors.
• Operating engineers are expected to pass competency-based exams on equipment operation.
• Completes required safety and compliance training.
• Reports to the Technical Facility Manager.
• Any other duties as directed by the Technical Facility Manager.

What you have

Education & Experience

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience preferably working on Class A building campus settings, with no less than 4 years critical facilities operations background.
• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) required.
• Certifications or completed degree programs from accredited trade schools, or Mechanical vendors such as York or Trane preferred.
• Desire to continue their education in the areas of Building Science with a focus on electrical or mechanical operations a plus.

Certificates & Licenses

• Universal CFC certification required.
• Electrical and or Mechanical license a plus.

Communication Skills

• Ability to comprehend and interpret instructions, short correspondence, and email inquiries.
• Ability to explain issues in a clear and basic format when dealing with Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing systems.
• Ability to write routine correspondence, log-notes, and status updates in CMMS systems.
• Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from other employees of the organization.
• Ability to effectively communicate and present information in one-on-one and/or small group situations with customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

Reasoning & Judgement

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to solve complex problems and handle a variety of options in varying situations while maintaining composure and professionalismwith minimal leadership input.
• Draws upon the opinions and diversity of others before making recommendations that have a direct impact on the company.
• Ability to organize and prioritize multiple tasks, effectively solve problems in stressful situations, and consistently make effective, high-quality decisions.

Other Skills & Abilities

• Working knowledge of HVAC, plumbing, electrical equipment, repair and maintenance, BMS systems, commercial kitchen equipment.
• Demonstrated knowledge of overall system design and sequence of operations of critical equipment such as generators, transfer switches and UPS systems.
• Intermediate skills with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Demonstrated knowledge of CMMS and other standard Building Automation Systems normally used in modern business settings to include mobile device technology.
• Experienced using small, elevated lifts and ladders for high work.
• Must understand electrical distribution and be able to interpret one-line drawings.
• Comfortable multi-tasking, staying calm under pressure and understanding what results are expected and the priority of the results.
• Ability to interpret blueprints and schematics.

Physical Requirements

• Walking and standing for long periods of time are regularly required when performing the duties.
• The employee frequently is required to reach with hands and arms; climb ladders; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl in a commercial building environment where space and movement may be limited.
• Must have the ability to work at heights up to and sometimes exceeding 100 feet. The employee must regularly lift up to 50 pounds and frequently move up to 100 pounds

Travel to other sites may be required to support the needs of the business with possible overnight stays occasionally including weekends based on needs of the business.
Afterhours emergency call response, weekends/ holidays and shift work as required.