Hydraulic Heating Specialist Engineer - 100%

As a hydraulic heating specialist engineer, you will strengthen the HVAC sector. The team, composed of 5 technicians and a group leader, specializes in the different technical fields of the building: production and distribution of superheated water, steam, domestic hot water, heating, and chilled water. You will thus evolve in an environment that is both demanding and innovative.

In this role, you carry out preliminary design studies by analyzing feasibility, identifying needs, estimating costs, and defining the schedule.

You draft detailed specifications and propose technical solutions that allow for informed decision-making.

You ensure rigorous project scoping, thereby guaranteeing precise validation of objectives and controlled progress.

You also prepare the necessary tender documents for the launch of public calls for tenders.

In partnership with colleagues from your sector and other sectors of the owner division, you evaluate technical solutions by selecting the most suitable equipment and developing detailed projects.

You ensure active supervision by ensuring compliance with current laws, standards, and regulations at each stage.

You are a source of proposals for optimizations and improvements concerning your techniques.

You serve in an expert advisory role in your field, participating in the analysis, validation, and monitoring of the technical operation of installations and projects mainly according to SIA phases 1, 2 and 6.

You participate in the continuous improvement of the sector and the service by taking part in the development of directives, procedures, and other standard documents allowing for homogeneity of the services offered.

You provide technological and regulatory monitoring in order to anticipate the necessary evolutions of installations in connection with medical requirements and safety standards.

You represent, within the framework of major institutional projects, your sector as well as the techniques for which you are responsible.

In various meetings, you exchange with your colleagues and provide feedback to your hierarchy with the aim of optimizing the management of your projects.

You hold an engineering degree at Bachelor level or equivalent in the field of thermal engineering.

You have solid experience (minimum 5 years) in managing complex technical installations, ideally in critical environments (hospital, industry, public infrastructure).

You possess excellent mastery of standards and regulations, as well as technical expertise related to the installations in your field.

At ease in demanding environments, you know how to make decisions, prioritize, and manage emergency situations with composure.

You are proficient in CMMS tools and standard office tools.

Experience in industrial distribution networks (superheated water, steam, cold, etc.) is an asset.

A good command of French is indispensable.

• Start date: to be agreed
• Number of positions: 1
• Activity rate: 100%
• Function class: 18
• Contract: CDI
• Application deadline: 03.11.2026
• Requests for information: M. L. Uccella, head of the HVAC sector, Luigino.Uccella@hug.ch (mailto:Luigino.Uccella@hug.ch)

Your application dossier must include a letter demonstrating your motivation, your curriculum vitae, copies of the diplomas and certificates required for the position, and the last 2 work certificates.

This advertisement is addressed to women and men alike.

Wishing to engage in the fight against unemployment, the HUG encourage applications coming from the Office cantonal de l'emploi.

Only applications submitted via the recruitment platform will be taken into account. Paper and email applications will not be processed.

With more than 13,000 employees representing 160 professions, the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève are a reference institution at national and international levels. To learn more about our institution, take a few minutes to consult our 2025 retrospective by clicking here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8kVMJchPR0).

The position is attached to the Direction de l'immobilier (https://www.hug.ch/direction-immobilier)(DI) whose mission is to define a strategy for the real estate portfolio, to develop the coherence of the monitoring of major projects according to the 2022-2040 hospital master plan, in strong partnership with the main services of the State attached to the Département du territoire, the Département des infrastructures and the Department of health, to optimize the monitoring of surfaces and its future planning, while guaranteeing the proper functioning of services. More than 230 professionals carry out their missions daily with a constant sense of demand, service, and environmental responsibility.

The infrastructure operational continuity service is a service provider whose main mission is, thanks to the presence on each site of employees from different trades, to ensure the maintenance of the hospital heritage composed of medical and logistical equipment, buildings, and their installations.