Senior Facilities Engineer

As a Senior Facilities Engineer, you design, maintain, and optimize the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) systems that keep buildings operational. This includes HVAC, electrical distribution, plumbing, fire protection, and building automation systems. The senior title means you're leading facilities engineering projects, specifying equipment, and making capital investment decisions about building infrastructure.

Your day blends engineering with operations. You might review HVAC design drawings for a renovation project, then investigate a comfort complaint in a specific zone, then prepare a capital request for a chiller replacement, then coordinate with contractors on a weekend electrical upgrade. You need mechanical and electrical engineering knowledge, building codes familiarity, and the project management skills to keep building improvements on schedule.

The challenge is maintaining aging infrastructure with limited budgets. Building systems degrade over time, and there's never enough capital to replace everything that needs replacing. You're constantly prioritizing — what fails first? What affects the most occupants? What has safety implications? The best facilities engineers extend the life of existing systems through smart maintenance while building compelling cases for the capital investments that can't wait.