Group Chief Engineer

About the role

The Group Chief Engineer provides strategic technical leadership, engineering oversight, and asset preservation for multi-property hospitality portfolios managed by Realfact Management across Bangkok and outer provinces in Thailand. This high-impact corporate cluster role commands vital operational management of existing assets alongside critical coordination of upcoming multi-million Baht pre-opening execution and massive structural renovations spanning hotels, resorts, standalone premium bars, lifestyle restaurants, and specialized wellness hospitality infrastructure. Operating with supreme autonomy, this position mandates a highly proactive, technical, and mobile engineering figurehead to command robust M&E; maintenance, maximize brand facility compliance, ensure pristine workplace compliance, and lead robust pre-opening handovers directly reporting to the Group General Manager.

Key Responsibilities

1. Cluster Engineering Leadership & Compliance

• Multi-Property Oversight: Drive engineering excellence, infrastructure optimization, and standard operating procedures (SOPs) across all cluster properties, hotels, and standalone facilities.
• Pre-Opening & Handover Coordination: Spearhead physical handovers for upcoming or freshly renovated sites. Conduct deep architectural defect inspections, orchestrate swift defect elimination processes, and strictly validate the testing and commissioning of master mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) or M&E; frameworks.
• Compliance, Safety & Audits: Maintain airtight engineering compliance with company regulations, fire and life safety codes, environmental frameworks, and local Thai government statutory frameworks. Ensure all multi-province assets are fully certified and audit-ready.
• Corporate Standardization: Seamlessly adapt corporate guidelines, resource conservation parameters, and property care philosophies across every localized engineering team.

2. Asset Portfolio Engineering & Project Management

• Directly command the strategic technical workflow, mechanical system modernizations,and execution of the core property structural renovation pipeline.
• Implement comprehensive preventative maintenance and facility upkeep standards for long-term residential inventories to safeguard high asset value, structural health, and residential tenant satisfaction.
• Enforce meticulous back-of-house kitchen equipment calibrations, cold chain refrigeration maintenance, exhaust ventilation compliance, and structural safety to guarantee uncompromised food safety operations and uptime.
• Manage complex, specialized wellness engineering assets including pool filtration setups, high-temperature saunas, precision hot/ice therapeutic plunge baths, advanced HVAC fitness hubs, co-kitchen utility points, and common dining lounges. Enforce daily water chemistry logs, absolute wet/dry zone hygiene parameters, and structural utility safety.

3. Strategic Budgeting & Procurement Operations

• Financial Control: Collaborate directly with the Cluster Operations Manager and Group General Manager to craft annual Engineering CapEx and OpEx budgets, manage precise energy conservation forecasts, and structure bulletproof emergency contingency plans.
• Procurement Execution: Draft hyper-precise technical Purchase Requisitions (PR) for engineering spare parts, heavy machinery, or external service contracts. Manage close alignment with Procurement and Finance departments to ensure transparent vendor vetting and timely operational payments.
• Vendor Management: Vet, contract, and supervise third-party contractors and specialized engineering consultants during intense multi-province renovation or construction sprints.

Other Responsibilities

• Uphold and actively promote all dimensions of corporate culture, policies, workplace ethics, and regulatory operational structures.

• Continuously act on all components of multi-property occupational health, structural security, and

environmental risk mitigation, proactively escalating vulnerabilities through corporate pipelines.

Key Skills & Competencies

• Multi-Site Engineering Management: Proven master-level capacity to multitask, prioritize, and drive technical maintenance frameworks across scattered multi-property or multi-province environmentssimultaneously.
• Bilingual Technical Articulation: Strong interpersonal capability in both spoken and written English and Thai to comfortably brief international corporate stakeholders, interface with local sub-contractors, and direct local technical staff.
• Advanced System Literacy: Deep working command of building management systems (BMS), property preventative maintenance software, and basic configuration awareness with specialized hospitality IT/Finance networks for asset tracking.
• Project Agility & Trouble-shooting: Highly adaptive, problem-solving prowess capable of mitigating structural delays, contractor failures, or emergency mechanical outages with absolute operational independence.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Civil Engineering, or a highly relevant Technical/Facilities Management field.
• Minimum 5–8 years of progressive experience in senior hospitality engineering, regional facilities management, or multi-property Cluster Chief Engineer capacities.
• Proficient bilingual fluency in written and spoken English and Thai for technical contract reviews.
• Native mastery of engineering blue-prints, MEP layouts, technical budgeting tools, and modern automated BMS platforms.
• High-level analytical leadership style with an uncompromising attention to safety and regulatory detail.
• Prior senior oversight of extensive international-grade resort/hotel pre-openings or large structural CapEx

renovations.

• Direct technical background maintaining advanced commercial wet wellness assets (thermal suites, high-spec hydrotherapy pools, saunas).
• Prior exposure navigating rigorous international hospitality brand compliance audits, green energy

certifications, or modern project management tools.

• Possession of an officially recognized Thai professional engineering license (Associate or Professional level).