Engineering Shift Supervisor

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Salary Description:

Job Description For Engineering Shift Supervisor

 Step into the world of Taj and join us in our endeavor to create magical experiences as we introduce the world to the art of Indian hospitality. Tajness is the soul of our culture and guides all our interactions. It is an implicit trust in our people to forge invaluable relationships by creating an emotional connect with our various stakeholders. Tajness is the way we do what we do. We bring to you a unique combination of authentic tradition and innovation, a culture we invite you to grow with.

Explore opportunities that align with your current skillset and become a part of our diverse community of “Exoticans” dedicated to delivering quality experiences. Grow with Taj at a wide array of locations across various geographies, offering opportunities that allows our associates to choose their preferred career path with focused mentoring and training, enriching both professional and personal development.

Be part of a family that strives to touch the hearts of our guests through carefully nurtured values. Trust, Awareness and Joy is something we live-by everyday.

About Taj Exotica Resort and Spa, The Palm, Dubai

Part of Indian Hotels Company Limited (IHCL) established in 1903, Taj Hotels have been a pioneer in bringing legendary Indian hospitality to the world.

Continuing this legacy in providing guests with the highest levels of personalized, intuitive service and careful attention to detail, IHCL will be introducing its newest addition - Taj Exotica Resort & Spa, The Palm Dubai. Situated on the East Crescent of the Palm and connected to a private beach, the hotel will feature 258 rooms, 67 suites, six F&B venues, a kids’ club, sprawling banquet & meeting spaces and Taj’s signature Jiva Spa. Keeping sustainability and the incomparable Tajness at the core of its offering, the hotel is poised to create exotic experiences for all its guests. Scheduled to open doors in the next few months, we welcome candidates to be part of our Pre-opening Team.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :

Responsibilities and duties for this position shall include, but not be limited to, the following areas and activities. At management discretion, direction may be given for tasks outside the scope of work described. 

The duties are: 

• Develops and implements procedures to govern the engineering supervisor duties, sees to it that all operational equipment are running well base on standard operating procedure and ensure the technicians on duty are assigned to make the hotel operations efficient and effective. 
• Check and ensure in every shifts that all engineering equipment including plant rooms machineries, Cold water. Hot water, chilled water system, Calorifier, pumps, heat exchangers, cold storage, compressors, AHUs, Generator sets, lift, fire system etc. are working in appropriate manner and fill up checklist if applicable. 
• Check all critical equipment in every shift duty such as water level in underground tank, raw tank, filter tank, chilled water tank, softener tanks, fuel levels, roof tank, grease trap, sump pits etc. are maintained as per requirements and fill checklist if applicable. 
• Check all functions in the ballroom or functions rooms, assign technician to prepare, stand by, follow up additional request and clear up all engineering equipment related to the functions needed such as sound system, video system for functions etc. 
• Check TV channel on periodic basis recorded in the log book for sound and video quality for all TV channels. 
• Assign technician to replace all out of order lamps immediately especially in guest area such as rooms occupied, lobby, restaurant, function rooms, toilets, etc all fused lamps must be change at once or before the work duty over. 
• Checks cleanliness of all engineering areas such as, Diesel generator room, mechanical plant room, chilled water pump room, fire pump room, AHU area, mechanical areas, carpentry workshop, control room area, sound system store, etc. 
• Check all technicians on duty are in proper and orderly appearance as per brand standard. Spot check functions are ready in time from all operational aspects. i.e, Sound systems, video system are ready for use as per request by the guest. 
• Makes a round hotel inspection especially all engineering areas, lights in guest/public areas at least 2 time during each shift. 
• Handle the complaints, claims and problem solving of all aspect related to the engineering equipment. All activity must be written in shift log book, and highlight the important things to be followed up for the next shift or important problems already solve to be monitored. 
• Monitor all work done by outside contractor within hotel area regarding to work permit, safety procedures, quality of work, and disturbance to the hotel operations. In case of any emergency inform the DOE using headphone if required. 
• Do the weekly running test of Generator sets and fire pumps. Do the daily check of cooling tower and clean the cooling tower weekly, control the usage of chemicals in cooling tower and chiller. Do the weekly check of telephone line / hunting line in PABX. 
• Do daily check of all operation equipment such as kitchen equipment, cold rooms’ compressors, etc. 
• Take immediate action to repair all out of order equipment in order to smooth hotel operation even if needed longer hours to fix. 
• Checks cleanliness of all engineering areas such as, generator sets area, boiler area, chiller area, AHU area, mechanical areas, carpenter areas, control room area, sound system store, mechanical area, etc. 
• All activity must be reported to supervisor to be written in log book, and highlight the important things to be followed up for the next maintenance or next repair. 
• Do inspection on all electrical panel, especially the electrical panel which used by the units running 24 hours, analyze potential problems, order spare parts which possible be used and spare parts need to change in order to prevent the potential problems. 
• Able to modify and or improved all engineering equipment in order to increase the efficiency and energy saving. 
• Monitor all work done by outside contractor within hotel area regarding to work permit, safety procedures, quality of work, and disturbance to the hotel operations.

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS:

• Must be able to read, write, understand and speak fluent English. 
• Diploma from technical school or minimum ITI technical course, with minimum of two years of experience in similar position. 
• Good personality, mature and a team player as well as leadership skill is important to be the supervisor engineering, as he needs to take decision and be responsible of all engineering equipment.