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Please visit www.cmimgmt.com to learn more about our company!\n The Chief Engineer is a working supervisor responsible for leading facilities engineering, operations, maintenance, repair, and technical compliance across CMI’s customer sites in Tennessee.\nWork site Locations: Nashville, Knoxville and Memphis\nKey Job Functions\nServe as the senior onsite technical lead and working supervisor for facilities engineering, operations, maintenance, and repair activities; plan, assign, inspect, and document work performed by employees and subcontractors.\nLead, train, and mentor journeyman, apprentice, HVAC, and general maintenance personnel; verify that personnel possess the training, licenses, and certifications required for the systems and equipment they operate, maintain, adjust, or inspect.\nOperate and maintain electrical, mechanical, HVAC, domestic water and sewer, hydronic, filtration, generator, fire protection, life-safety, lighting, vertical transportation, architectural, structural, security, metering, control, and related building systems within the PWS scope.\nDevelop and execute routine, predictive, condition-based, and reactive maintenance strategies that maximize uptime, preserve warranties, prevent premature failure, and comply with manufacturer specifications, the PM Guide, applicable ASHRAE and ASME standards, and other binding requirements.\nPerform and oversee troubleshooting and repairs for boilers, chillers, pumps, motors, controls, sensors, gauges, piping, tubing, expansion tanks, hydronic loops, and Building Automation Systems, including refrigerant recovery and charging when properly certified.\nMaintain occupied spaces and common areas within required temperature, humidity, ventilation, lighting, water-intrusion, odor, access, and safety conditions during occupied hours; 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