The posting
What Success Looks Like (Objectives):
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensures compliance with State and Federal regulatory requirements including, but not limited to, OSHA, EPA, HAZMAT, and Health, Fire & Life Safety, working with internal safety teams
- Schedules and conducts frequent inspections of facilities, grounds and equipment to determine need and extent of service, repair and equipment required to ensure employee safety
- Inspects and ensures maintenance of security fence perimeter, entry gates and surveillance systems
- Ensures overall maintenance of the site’s appearance to meet company standards
- Recommend infrastructure improvements to maximize efficiency and cost-effectiveness of site operations
- Directs, monitors, and controls contracted projects to ensure adherence to specifications and ensure deadlines are met
- May prepare construction specifications or plans, obtain advice from engineering personnel, and analyze contract bids, and submit bids and recommendations to the management team
- Manages outside vendor contracts for UPS, Generator, Electrical, HVAC, Fire Alarm and landscaping
- Provides project reports and significant operational data to management on a timely basis
- Maintains multiple locations across the US including hands-on maintenance and repairs of electrical and HVAC equipment, as well as general maintenance of Gateway
- Compiles and/or reviews records of labor and material cost for operating building and specifications or plans
- Perform job site safety analysis prior to engaging in tasks and select appropriate PPE suitable to meet working conditions
- Complete Purchase Orders and approval invoices
- Other duties as assigned
Core Skills, Competencies, and Key Experiences (What you’ll bring)
Education and Experience:
- 10 years’ of experience in building maintenance to include any of the following: HVAC, Electrical, Fire Suppression and detection systems, Generators, UPS’s as well as general maintenance and construction
- Journeyman electrical or HVAC/R license
- Prior experience reading and interpreting documents such as blueprints, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals
Skills and Qualifications:
- Must be willing to regularly travel up to 95% out of state
- Must be able to sit, stand, crawl, and climb ladders for extended periods
- Must be able to lift a minimum of 50 pounds
- Must be able to work in all-weather environments, extreme heat, extreme cold, snow, rain, noise, hazards, and atmospheric conditions (fumes, odor, dust, mist or poor ventilations) indoors, and outdoors
- Working conditions are normal for a critical facility
- Demonstrated self-starter with the ability to work independently, to take initiative, and proactively solve problems with minimal supervision
- Good written and oral communication skills
- Ability to write routine reports and correspondence
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions
- Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations
- Ability to interact effectively with team members and provide guidance as needed
- Knowledge of basic computer experience in databases, word processing, and spreadsheet applications
- Will be able make sound decisions regarding budgets, personnel actions and priority of work necessary to maintain function of 24x7 operations with 99.99% uptime
- Ability to change assignments and prioritize multiple tasks
Visa sponsorship not available for this role
Salary Range
Compensation: $97,500.00/Year - $130,000.00/Year About Our Department
EchoStar has an exciting opportunity for a Gateway Maintenance Engineer in our Hughes Network Systems division. This position manages, maintains, controls and preserves the architectural integrity and asset value of our Critical Facilities infrastructure at our Satellite Gateways to meet our company standards, which includes regularly scheduled facility inspection, building construction/maintenance, electrical construction/maintenance, HVAC, property and grounds upkeep, fire, security & life safety and regulatory compliance. This role is the main point of contact for Facilities maintenance support for Hughes Gateway Sites across the US.
About Our Company
EchoStar builds solutions that help families and communities stay connected. We’ll launch your career and empower you to change lives.
Our brands include Boost Mobile, DISH TV, Gen Mobile, Hughes and Sling TV. We serve millions of customers with offerings ranging from satellite to streaming services and global to personal networking solutions.
Benefits
We offer versatile health perks, including flexible spending accounts, HSA, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, career opportunities, and a flexible time away plan; all benefits can be viewed here: EchoStar Benefits.
The base pay range shown is a guideline. Individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, and competencies; compensation is based on the role's location and is subject to change based on work location.
Candidates need to successfully complete a pre-employment screen, which may include a drug test and DMV check. Our company is committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace where every individual has the opportunity to succeed. We are dedicated to providing individuals with criminal or arrest records a fair chance of employment in accordance with local, state, and federal laws.
The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.
We pride ourselves on developing and promoting talent as an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. EchoStar will accommodate the sincerely held religious beliefs of employees if such accommodations are not undue hardships and are otherwise within the bounds of applicable law. All qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with local, state, and federal law. You may redact any information that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of school/graduation from your application documents before submission and throughout our application process.
EchoStar will provide reasonable accommodation to otherwise qualified job applicants and employees with known physical or mental disabilities, unless doing so poses an undue hardship on the Company, poses a direct threat of substantial harm to others, or is otherwise not required by law. EchoStar has a more detailed Accommodation Policy that applies to employees. EchoStar endeavors to make echostar.com and jobs.echostar.com accessible to users. Please contact [email protected] if you would like to discuss the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process. This contact information is for accommodation requests only; do not use this contact information to inquire about the status of applications.
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