Duties and Responsibilities of Chief Engineer

Duties and responsibilities of Chief Engineer in a hotel

·         The chief engineer is responsible for purchase of all machines and equipment, paints, oils, lubricants, grease, other raw materials and tools and instruments.

·         The chief engineer invites tenders and quotations, negotiates, finalize and awards the contract for maintenance and other works.

·         Budget:-  Estimated expenditure on staff salaries and allowance, maintenance contracts, training, purchase of equipment, materials, tools, instrument and furniture.

·         Manpower Planning: -   Estimating required technical manpower coordinating with personnel department to recruit additional manpower required.

·         Training and skill development of staff and employee under him.

·         Drafting, finalizing and implementing maintenance schedule through system of complaint registers and work orders.

·         Processing of bills: - include bills for water, electricity, fuels etc.

·         Coordinating, supervision and inspecting:- Scheduled inspection and surprise inspection.

·         Administrative Assistant handles phenomenal amount of paper work, record keeping, parts ordering, purchase order, inventory, payroll and job assignments and dispatch is an essential full time position. Schedule of work will enable response to issuing departments on a timetable. This position only reports only the director of engineering.

·         Assistant director of engineering must be able to take instant decisions and operate the department effectively.  This position has full authority over the department’s operation and the shift engineers and  technicians / engineers. This position reports to the director of engineering and, in absence of that to the general manager.

·         The shift engineer are normally the ‘runners’ that carry the radio or paper and their primary function is to respond to the day to day maintenance requests generated by the housekeeping department of PBX or those that may be assigned to them.  A direct verbal request by a guest is given first priority. Fire or flood situations is first priority always.

·         The technicians / engineers are those general workers whose skills are utilized by the assistant director of engineering for those jobs outside the of the scope shift engineers, requiring longer time to complete or any more extensive.