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Stationary Engineer (Union Local 39)

CAFull-time

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Develop your engineering career at JLL! You will work with a JLL team that manages the client campus. This is a union position - International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE Local 39)

Location: Redwood City, CA 94065

Stationary Engineer Wage: $69.52 an hour

6:00 p.m. and 12:00 midnight shift comes with a $1.50/hr shift premium

12:00 midnight and 6:00 a.m. shift comes with a $1.75/hr shift premium

Stationary Engineers are responsible for operating, maintaining, and repairing equipment that supplies heat and steam to buildings, marine vessels, and pneumatic tools. Their duties include:

  • Adjusting equipment: Activating valves to control the flow of water, air, and fuel into boilers
  • Testing equipment: Testing boiler water quality and taking corrective action as needed
  • Recording data: Keeping logs of operation, maintenance, and safety activities
  • Detecting problems: Analyzing problems and taking action to ensure equipment is running reliably
  • Operating equipment: Starting up, regulating, and shutting down engines, boilers, pumps, and other equipment
  • Monitoring equipment: Reading gauges, meters, and charts to ensure equipment is operating properly
  • Maintaining equipment: Performing routine maintenance, such as lubricating moving parts, replacing filters, and removing corrosion
  • Repairing equipment: Making normal and emergency repairs to boilers, pumps, piping, and other equipment

Stationary engineers may also work with air conditioning, ventilating, and water still equipment.

All engineers covered under this Agreement will comply with all federal, state, local laws and regulations as well as the Employer's safety policies and directives. The engineers covered by this Agreement shall, if and when called upon, perform any or all of the following skilled and technical duties but not necessarily limited to performing work under a work order or computerized maintenance management system (CMMS), operating or assisting in operating all heating and ventilation and air conditioning equipment, engines, turbines, motors, combustion engines, pumps, air compressors, ice and refrigerating machines, air conditioning units, filters, dryers, fans, siphons, also automatic and power-oiling pumps and engines, as well as other such normal or evolved building systems as installed within the building (s), more specifically described as follows:

  • Operation, maintenance and repair of all boilers, heaters pumps, valves, appurtenances and lines used in the distribution of steam and heated or processed water.
  • Operation, maintenance and repair of refrigerant compressors, condensers, evaporators, traps, transfer pumps, expansion valves, stop valves and float valves, together with all refrigerant lines and devices used to control temperature, and air conditioning systems in their entirety, including the use of approved recovery equipment and processes to comply with the law.
  • Operation, maintenance and repair of pumps handling brines or other secondary refrigerating liquids, including water, together with all valves, appurtenances and lines used in the system.
  • Operation, maintenance and repair of air compressors, together with distribution lines and all valves and devices for air control, including air dryer and filtering and separating systems.
  • Operation, maintenance and repair of all natural and manufactured gas distribution lines, including all valves and devices for their distribution, regulation and control.
  • Operation, maintenance and repair of water filters, softeners, piping, expansion tanks, and pumps used in conjunction with water distribution, including all sinks and toilet bowls, including all supply lines, drains, water lines, control devices and sprinkler systems.
  • Operation, maintenance and repair of all types of electrical motors and engines used to power pumps, compressors, generators and fans.
  • Maintenance of elevators, lifts, escalators and hoistways except where this type of equipment is serviced and maintained by specialized contractors, and only where the Engineer is properly licensed to do so.
  • All electrical/control systems work and repair including circuit diagnostics, tracing and troubleshooting, operating, maintaining, and repairing all motor controls and related equipment drivers such as variable frequency drives (VFD’s).
  • Tools considered as necessary to the fulfillment of the duties of the engineer shall include all those which may be required in the performance of their duties, including such types of special equipment necessary to operate, maintain and repair the equipment listed. (11) Operation, maintenance and repair of all fuel oil systems including piping, pumps, valves, strainers, filters, floats, separators, lines and controls.
  • Operation, maintenance and repair of building automation systems for HVAC, lighting and other controlled mediums, including consoles, data gathering panels, remote sensors and indicating devices.
  • Operation, maintenance and repair of sanitary sewer systems, sump pumps including basins and sumps, grease traps, water closets, urinals, flush valves, angle stops and piping. This includes clearing blockages in fixtures and lines as needed and on a preventative basis as well.
  • Maintenance and repair of trash/recycling/composting/baling compactors, including electrical and hydraulic systems.
  • Maintenance and repair of all kitchen equipment excluding tenant owned equipment. (16) Operation, maintenance and repair of all life Safety related equipment, including support of testing for life safety related equipment.
  • Inventory control for parts and materials required to perform such maintenance and repairs to the building systems.
  • Equipment room maintenance and repairs to maintain the physical condition and appearance of these rooms and equipment located within them.