Multi-Property Chief Engineer — Hands-On Hotel Leader

Hireology; Panama City Beach (FL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

By the Sea Resorts is seeking an experienced Multi-Property Chief Engineer to oversee engineering and maintenance across multiple Panama City Beach hotels. This hands-on leadership role requires strong preventive maintenance expertise, life-safety compliance focus, and the ability to lead teams, set standards, manage capital projects, and partner with hotel leadership to keep properties guest-ready.

Ideal candidates will have prior major-brand hotel experience and a proven track record in

Qualifications

• Previous engineering or maintenance leadership experience with a major hotel brand.
• Strong knowledge of hotel engineering and property maintenance operations.
• Experience managing maintenance teams.
• Ability to troubleshoot building systems.
• Willingness to perform hands-on maintenance when necessary.
• Excellent organization and prioritization skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversee engineering and maintenance operations across assigned hotel properties across a multi-property portfolio.
• Establish consistent maintenance standards, procedures, and expectations across the portfolio.
• Regularly walk and inspect properties to identify maintenance, safety, appearance, and operational concerns.
• Prioritize work based on guest impact, safety, property condition, and operational needs.
• Ensure maintenance requests and work orders are completed accurately and in a timely manner.
• Monitor out-of-order rooms and work aggressively to return rooms to inventory.
• Respond to significant property emergencies and equipment failures as needed.
• Develop, implement, and maintain preventive maintenance programs for guest rooms, public areas, building systems, and equipment.
• Ensure guest room preventive maintenance is completed consistently and properly documented.
• Track recurring equipment and property issues to identify root causes.
• Maintain accurate maintenance records, inspection logs, and equipment histories.
• Develop schedules for routine servicing and replacement of major equipment.
• Provide oversight and hands-on troubleshooting involving hotel systems such as HVAC, plumbing, electrical, boilers, pumps, and more.
• Lead, coach, and develop property maintenance personnel.
• Assist with recruiting, interviewing, training, and onboarding engineering team members.
• Establish clear expectations for productivity, workmanship, safety, and response times.
• Hold team members accountable for preventive maintenance and work-order completion.
• Evaluate staffing levels and recommend adjustments based on property needs.
• Help develop maintenance employees into stronger technicians and future leaders.
• Coordinate maintenance coverage across properties when emergencies arise.
• Ensure assigned properties meet brand engineering and maintenance standards.
• Support brand inspections, quality assurance evaluations, and corrective action plans.
• Maintain required documentation and inspection records.
• Ensure compliance with fire, life-safety, OSHA, and other regulatory requirements.
• Work proactively to correct deficiencies before they become guest, safety, or brand issues.
• Assist leadership with planning and execution of capital improvement and renovation projects.
• Coordinate with contractors, vendors, and property leadership during projects.
• Review scopes of work and assist with evaluating repair-versus-replacement decisions.
• Monitor project quality and ensure work is completed according to expectations.
• Assist with punch lists and project closeout.
• Identify capital needs and provide recommendations based on equipment condition and remaining useful life.
• Manage relationships with outside contractors and service providers.
• Obtain and review bids for repairs and projects as needed.
• Verify that contracted work has been completed properly before approval.
• Help control maintenance expenses through preventive maintenance, proper purchasing, and thoughtful repair-versus-replacement decisions.
• Maintain appropriate inventory of commonly used parts and maintenance supplies.
• Understand that property condition directly affects the guest experience.
• Respond quickly to maintenance issues affecting occupied rooms or public areas.
• Partner with General Managers, Housekeeping, and Front Office teams to resolve guest-impacting problems.
• Ensure maintenance employees interact professionally with guests when working in occupied areas.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Maintenance management

Preventive maintenance

HVAC knowledge

Building systems troubleshooting

Cross-property coordination

Job description

By the Sea Resorts is seeking an experienced Multi-Property Chief Engineer to oversee engineering and maintenance across multiple Panama City Beach hotels. This hands-on leadership role requires strong preventive maintenance expertise, life-safety compliance focus, and the ability to lead teams, set standards, manage capital projects, and partner with hotel leadership to keep properties guest-ready.

Ideal candidates will have prior major-brand hotel experience and a proven track record in