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C.E. Mechanical Management Team

Family leadership with a long-term standard.

C.E. Mechanical is led by the Tickenoff family from the company’s Chino home base, supporting Southern California facilities with long-term relationships, field-informed decisions, and mechanical service that protects the buildings clients depend on.

Same family commitment. Same practical standard. Leadership stays close to the work so clients get clear answers, responsible recommendations, and support that reflects the realities of operating commercial buildings.

Home BaseFamily-owned leadership based in Chino, California
FoundedServing Southern California since 1999
FocusCommercial HVAC, mechanical, electrical, and BAS
ClientsFacilities, owners, GCs, public agencies, and portfolios
StandardDirect accountability, practical recommendations, long-term support

Leadership Standard

Local leadership matters when facilities need direct answers.

C.E. Mechanical’s leadership standard is built around accountability, field awareness, financial discipline, and practical support for occupied commercial and institutional buildings.

Client continuity

Relationships have memory.

Long-term clients benefit when leadership understands service history, maintenance exposure, building context, and prior decisions.

Field-informed decisions

Scope should reflect site reality.

Access, shutdown windows, controls condition, electrical fit, safety, and maintainability should shape the recommendation.

Financial discipline

Budgets need clarity.

Leadership should help separate what must be handled now from what should be planned, phased, or budgeted.

Accountability

Clear answers matter.

Clients need a responsible team that stays with the work after the first call, proposal, or project handoff.

Leadership

Meet the management team.

Leadership matters most when the building needs clear answers. C.E. Mechanical’s management team brings ownership-level accountability, financial discipline, technical oversight, and field awareness to the work.

Dave Tickenoff, President and CEO of C.E. Mechanical
President & CEO

Dave Tickenoff

Dave leads C.E. Mechanical with a practical, relationship-driven approach to commercial HVAC, mechanical service, retrofit, construction coordination, and long-term client support.

Carin Tickenoff, Controller of C.E. Mechanical
Controller

Carin Tickenoff

Carin supports the financial discipline, administrative structure, and operational accountability that help C.E. Mechanical serve clients with consistency and professionalism.

Nick Tickenoff, Vice President of C.E. Mechanical
Vice President

Nick Tickenoff

Nick helps guide C.E. Mechanical’s technical service direction, field execution, and client support across service, maintenance, controls, retrofit, and project coordination.

Chino Home Base

Southern California reach with a local operating center.

C.E. Mechanical is based in Chino, California, with service reach across Greater Los Angeles, Inland Empire, Orange County, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, and surrounding Southern California markets.

Downtown Los Angeles skyline and commercial buildings under daylight
Southern CaliforniaLeadership close to the local market, local buildings, and local operating constraints.

Access, AHJs, tenant expectations, and aging infrastructure shape how the work is planned.

Row of white commercial HVAC units on a rooftop
Commercial HVACService, maintenance, controls, retrofit, and replacement support.
Architectural drawings laid out on a desk
DocumentationClear scope and records support better building decisions.

Family Company Values

The leadership standard shows up in how the work is handled.

A family company should not mean smaller expectations. It should mean closer accountability, better continuity, and a stronger reason to protect the client relationship.

01Direct accountabilityClients should know who is responsible, where the scope stands, and what the next step is.
02Practical recommendationsRepair, maintain, optimize, retrofit, or replace based on condition, risk, cost, uptime, and maintainability.
03Long-term relationshipsThe goal is not a single transaction. It is a service relationship that becomes more useful as building knowledge grows.
04Field-informed leadershipManagement decisions are strongest when they reflect the actual building, access, controls, schedule, and service history.

How Leadership Connects To Delivery

The management team’s role is to keep service, scope, and accountability connected.

Commercial HVAC outcomes depend on practical coordination. Leadership helps keep service history, maintenance planning, BAS visibility, retrofit scope, electrical coordination, startup, TAB, and closeout moving in the same direction.

Service

Active issues need fast clarity.

Service response should identify symptoms, measurements, likely causes, remaining risk, and next steps without unnecessary ambiguity.

Maintenance

PM should build useful records.

Maintenance history should support repair planning, equipment prioritization, seasonal readiness, and capital budget decisions.

Controls

BAS visibility affects decisions.

Schedules, alarms, trends, sensors, and sequences help separate equipment problems from operating or control problems.

Assessment

Condition drives capital planning.

Facility assessments help rank risk before owners spend capital on the wrong asset first.

Retrofit

Execution needs field judgment.

Access, phasing, electrical fit, controls integration, shutdowns, startup, TAB, and closeout need leadership attention.

Relationship

The client should know who is accountable.

Good leadership reduces handoffs, improves communication, and keeps decisions tied to the client’s building priorities.

Getting The Right Attention

Route the issue by what the building needs from leadership.

Use the right starting point to give leadership and operations enough context to respond cleanly.

Service escalationActive building issue

Send address, equipment served, symptoms, alarm status, tenant impact, access limits, and timing needs.

Capital planningRepair, retrofit, or replace

Send equipment list, age, service history, photos, budget window, shutdown limits, and decision criteria.

Bid / project supportPlans, specs, or TI scope

Send RFP, drawings, due date, walkthrough notes, phasing requirements, exclusions, and contact path.

RelationshipPortfolio or facility planning

Send site list, recurring issues, PM expectations, reporting needs, asset priorities, and service standards.

Industrial cooling towers on a commercial rooftop
Work With C.E. MechanicalSend the active issue, building context, or project scope.

Work With C.E. Mechanical

Talk with a team that stays accountable after the first conversation.

Whether the need is service, preventive maintenance, building automation, assessment, retrofit, tenant improvement, or replacement planning, C.E. Mechanical can help route the next step.