Maintenance Engineer

At Lakeview Village, we are friendly professionals who are united by our passion for providing aging adults with a lifestyle and quality services above the rest. No matter the stage in your career, this is your opportunity to be a part of a community that creates cherished memories for our residents.

Lakeview Village is a continuing care retirement community.  We have an opening for a Maintenance Engineer to work Full Time.

Lakeview's Maintenance Engineer ensures machinery, equipment, systems, utilities, and infrastructures around Lakeview Village campus run optimally to decrease downtime, increase efficiency, and provide tenant comfort.

Why join us?

• Competitive pay
• Health, dental, and vision benefits
• Retirement plan with employer match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Fitness center and pool

Job Duties and Responsibilities 

• Conduct and oversee audits pertaining to maintenance processes.
• Troubleshoot and diagnose faults, failures, and malfunctions with equipment and machinery.
• Organize, maintain, and complete preventative and planned maintenance.
• Establish and execute maintenance procedures and protocols based on manufacturer recommendations.
• Train staff on equipment operation and maintenance procedures
• Respond to major equipment breakdowns
• Forecast and plan strategic system overhauls, upgrades, and replacement.
• Procure, test, and commission specialty components, fixtures, fittings, and other material.
• Maintain and operate building management system for HVAC and lighting controls.
• Maintain fire sprinkler systems.
• Maintain the heating, cooling, and ventilation systems in proper working condition.
• Coordinate and complete boiler room and mechanical room repairs.
• Coordinate annual boiler inspections and maintain records.
• Provide maintenance to kitchen equipment.
• Provide maintenance to laundry equipment.
• May be required to operate a Lakeview Village vehicle as needed.
• Assists in snow and ice removal from streets, parking lots, sidewalks, driveways, porches, walkways, and other heavily traversed areas by using snow blowers, shovels, ice scrapers, and a vehicle equipped with attachments. Spreads salt and ice melt on affected areas before and after snowfall.
• Maintains after hours and on-call availability for emergencies, including snow removal and flood/storm-related campus issues, with potential for rotating weekend, evening, and night shifts ensuring 24/7 coverage during critical situations.

• GED or High School Diploma.
• Minimum of 10 years maintenance industry experience required.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a Maintenance Engineer required.
• Knowledge of building automation systems is highly preferred.
• Certification in HVAC, Electrical, Plumbing, or other building trade preferred.
• Required to have a valid class C driver’s license.
• Advanced knowledge of mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and heating systems.
• Ability to read and understand mechanical, electrical, and plumbing drawings/plans.
• Ability to manage, motivate, and lead a small group of workers to complete project.
• Exercises independent judgment where procedures cannot be standardized.
• Communicates professionally on the phone, in writing, and in person with people from diverse backgrounds, using the English language when necessary.
• Appropriately sets priorities, meets deadlines, and works independently.
• Possesses an empathetic approach to the elderly.
• Able to work in a team setting with residents, relatives, staff, and others.
• Detail oriented with the ability to detect and avoid errors.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met by an individual to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Very Heavy Work – Exerting in excess of 100 lbs of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 lbs of force frequently, and/or up to 20lbs of force constantly to move objects. The employee is required to have visual acuity to perform an activity such as operating machines such as lathes, drill presses, power says and mills where the seeing job is at or within arm’s reach; performing mechanical or skilled trades tasks of a non-repetitive nature. Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms.  Body agility is emphasized.  Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery or erratically moving surfaces.  May need to stoop/bend, kneel, crawl, reach, stand for sustained periods of time and walk long distances. May need to push, pull, and lift with regular or repetitive motion.  May need to pick up, pinch, type with fingers, grasp with fingers and palm. May need to feel attributes of an object such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touch with fingertips. Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly. Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, making discriminations in sound. Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.