Assistant Manager - Engineering

Job Description

Job Purpose

To ensure the safe placement, inspection, testing, and commissioning of all electrical systems in the hotel and plant room machinery, ensuring their smooth and efficient operation.

Prime Function

Oversee the installation, testing, and maintenance of electrical systems and plant room machinery, coordinating with relevant vendors and management to ensure that all systems are fully operational, safe, and compliant with standards.

Key Responsibilities

Understanding and Oversight of Electrical Systems

• Thoroughly understand the High Tension (HT), Low Tension (LT), and LT to Distribution side Single Line Diagrams (SLD).
• Actively participate in the installation, testing, and commissioning of transformers, LT panels, and bus duct systems.
• Involves the testing and commissioning of each HT and LT breaker, ensuring all parameters meet the required standards.
• Ensure that transformer testing results are satisfactory and report any issues promptly.

Generator and Plant Room Machinery Management

• Inspect the mechanical and electrical fittings of generators, ensuring that load testing is performed jointly, and all parameters meet operational requirements.
• Oversee the testing and commissioning of bus duct systems, verifying that all parameters adhere to established standards.
• Take handover of chillers, pumps, and all plant room machinery, ensuring their technical parameters align with design specifications.

Operational Testing and Maintenance

• Supervision of Maintenance:
  • Supervise the maintenance and repair of the hotel's interior and exterior, including guest rooms, common areas, and external facilities. Work with the Design and Construction team, engineers, and outside architects for renovations and other projects.

• Regularly monitor the operation of all pumps and systems, ensuring they function according to design parameters.
• Fully engaged in the testing and commissioning of all major plant machinery, ensuring that all parameters meet operational needs.
• Conduct daily inspections of the plant room area, reporting progress and issues as they arise.
• Routinely check each floor’s electrical work, ensuring quality and safety, and coordinate with electrical vendors to understand the cable routing and distribution panels.

Documentation and Record-Keeping

• Take responsibility for the handover of all systems, ensuring that they are operational and that all relevant documentation, including drawings and technical readings, is properly recorded.
• Create and maintain service trackers for each system, updating history cards regularly.
• Feed daily technical readings into the HLP sheet and maintain utility and waste management records.

Shift Management and Reporting

• Conduct daily inspections of plant rooms and equipment, managing energy and water use, and maintaining log sheets for shift activities.
• Follow up on pending work, ensuring a smooth handover to the next shift.
• Oversee the proper handover of tools and ensure logbooks are signed by senior managers and shift-in-charge personnel.
• Ensure that all major breakdowns during shifts are resolved before shift change, continuing the shift if a reliever is unavailable.
• Perform the rotational/ specific shifts as and when the operational requirements and DOE allocations.
• Emergency Response:
  • Be prepared to respond to any emergency situations during shifts, ensuring the safety and security of guests, staff, and property.

Vendor Coordination and Support

• Provide support to vendors during their visits to the hotel, maintaining control over all contracted work according to established policies and procedures.
• Manage the logbook of received materials, maintain the stores, and oversee the procurement process, raising purchase requests (PR) as needed.

Safety and Compliance

• Ensure compliance with safety protocols, including confined spaces permits, hot work permits, risk assessments, and working at heights permits.
• Oversee the safe operation of cooling towers and freshwater tanks, maintaining appropriate water levels.
• Ensure all utilities have updated history cards and that all electrical safety procedures, including lockout/tagout, are followed.
• Coordinate HSE Audits, FSSAI compliance, and thermography assessments and ensure that the property score is excellent.

Planned Preventive Maintenance

• All the machine & equipment should undergo periodic preventive maintenance as per schedule approved by DOE or Hotel Managenment aligning with the brand standard.
• All necessary licenses need to be reviewed and if required to be renewed.
• All necessary local compliance to be reviewed and followed as per requirement.

Public Area and Plant Room Operations

• Oversee the testing and commissioning of electrical systems in public areas.
• Ensure the smooth operation of the sewage treatment plant (STP) and the cleanliness of areas like the transformer room, diesel generator (DG) room, RMU, and HT & LT panels.
• Ensure proper handover of mobile and computer systems to the next shift and manage the DND card process during shifts.

Team Management

Staffing & Recruitment:

• Plan for future staffing needs, interview, select, and recruit team members. Identify and develop team members with potential and provide mentorship and training for career advancement.

Performance Management:

• Conduct regular performance reviews, monitor team members’ appearance, attitude, and professionalism. Provide constructive feedback and guidance to ensure high standards are maintained.

Training & Development:

• Develop and maintain staff training programs focused on skill development and meeting the changing needs of the business. Prepare weekly staff schedules in line with anticipated business needs and operating budgets.

Team Communication:

• Conduct monthly departmental meetings to share information, obtain feedback, address operational issues, and maintain open lines of communication within the team.
• Maintain team grooming, hygiene, and effective communication standards.
• Resolve all shift-related complaints promptly, managing manpower efficiently and ensuring smooth operations across all areas.

Main Complexity/Critical issues in the Job

Be proficient and efficient in all aspects of area of expertise, and adopt pro-active approach to problem solving.

Qualifications

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