Maintenance Engineer

CommonSpirit Health; San Luis Obispo (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

French Hospital Medical Center in San Luis Obispo, CA seeks a Maintenance Engineer to lead technical operations of the hospital's facilities, equipment, and systems. You will design preventive maintenance programs, perform root cause analyses, and manage repair strategies to maximize uptime.

The role requires strong engineering fundamentals, hands-on troubleshooting, and project management skills to oversee budgets, ensure compliance, and improve operational integrity across critical systems.

Qualifications

• Contractors license preferred.
• Strong engineering foundation and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with preventive maintenance programs.

Responsibilities

• Maintain physical plant operations and boiler watch responsibilities.
• Inspect critical equipment including boilers, emergency generators and switchgear.
• Maintain chillers, air compressors, vacuum pumps, and pumps.
• Conduct water tests and log results.
• Demonstrate valve and pump manipulation to ensure water supply from multiple sources.
• Maintain boiler logs accurately.

Job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Maintenance Engineer, you will be a critical technical leader, ensuring optimal performance, reliability, and longevity of facilities, equipment, and systems.

Every day, you will design and implement preventive maintenance programs, conduct root cause analyses, and develop repair strategies. You'll oversee projects, manage budgets, ensure compliance, and collaborate to improve efficiency and operational integrity.

To be successful in this role, you will possess a strong engineering foundation, advanced technical troubleshooting skills, proven project management abilities, and a proactive, analytical mindset to minimize downtime and maximize asset life.

• Maintains physical plant operations. Demonstrates ability to stand high pressure steam boiler watch.
• Inspects and monitors all critical equipment and ensures proper function, including but limited to boilers, emergency generators and switchgear.
• Maintains plant chillers, air compressors, vacuum pumps, pumps and associated equipment.
• Conducts water tests and logs results.
• Demonstrates ability to manipulate valves and pumps to get water to the boiler from more than one source
• Demonstrates knowledge of what to do in each circumstance concerning low water, high water in sight glass
• Accurately maintains boiler log.

Job Requirements

Preferred

• Contractors License

Where You'll Work

Founded in 1946, Dignity Health - French Hospital Medical Center is a 112-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in San Luis Obispo, California. Serving over 150,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including heart care, orthopedics, and a family birthing center. Additionally, French Hospital Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and has achieved an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group for every reporting period since 2012.

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