Sugar House Hotel is seeking a Chief Engineer to join our opening team in Winooski, Vermont. This is a high-impact leadership role for an engineering professional who enjoys building systems, solving problems, and supporting a best-in-class guest environment. The Chief Engineer will help establish preventive maintenance programs, departmental standards, vendor relationships, and a responsive culture of safety and care.
What you’ll do
- Lead engineering, maintenance, and facilities operations for the hotel
- Build and execute preventive maintenance, work order, and inspection programs
- Oversee mechanical, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and life safety systems
- Coordinate vendor relationships, outside contractors, and departmental budgets
- Support opening readiness, punch-list completion, and ongoing asset protection
- Maintain high standards across guestrooms, public areas, back-of-house, and safety compliance
What we’re looking for
Required
- 5+ years of engineering leadership experience in a hotel or similarly complex facility
- Strong working knowledge of HVAC, electrical, plumbing, and life safety systems
- Experience with preventive maintenance, vendor management, and department organization
- Ability to respond to operational needs with schedule flexibility
Preferred
- Hotel pre-opening experience
- Experience with sustainability-focused, all-electric, or LEED-oriented properties
- Relevant technical licenses or certifications
This role is a great opportunity for a practical, hands-on leader who takes pride in reliability, standards, and long-term asset care.
About The Sugarhouse
The Sugarhouse Hotel is planned for a late-summer 2026 opening as a 115-room Marriott Tribute hotel with a rooftop restaurant/bar, flexible meeting, wedding and event space, a fitness center, and views of the Winooski River and Adirondacks. Public materials describe the hotel as net-zero, all-electric, zero-fossil-fuel, and LEED Platinum. Fathom describes itself as a boutique hospitality management and development platform focused on innovation, sustainability, creativity, collaboration, and integrity, with experience across boutique, independent, and luxury lifestyle brands and recognition from Marriott and Hilton Operational Excellence Awards.
Benefits
Benefits include a 10% yearly bonus, medical, dental, vision, company-paid life insurance, additional optional life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 15 days of PTO in the first year of employment, cell phone reimbursement, employee discount rates at thousands of hotels around the world, and more.
Fathom Companies is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a workplace built on respect, inclusion, and opportunity, and we hire based on qualifications, merit, and business need.
Pay: $70,000.00 - $75,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Employee discount
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
