EMEA Engineering Lead

CBRE Group, Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CBRE Group, Inc. is seeking an EMEA Engineering Lead to oversee mechanical operations, maintenance, energy management, and workforce development for facilities within a portfolio.

You will supervise staff, manage budgets, and coordinate with contractors and tenants to ensure asset uptime and lifecycle. You will lead cross-functional teams, drive preventive maintenance improvements, and mentor staff while aligning with CBRE RISE values and departmental plans.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred; combination of experience considered in lieu of a degree.
• Chartered Engineer status preferable but not essential.
• Experience in fast-paced blue chip corporate environments and critical facilities.
• Ability to convey performance expectations and handle problems in a matrix environment.
• Leadership to motivate teams to achieve operational targets across disciplines.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Outlook).

Responsibilities

• Provide formal supervision to employees; conduct performance evaluations and coaching.
• Coordinate and manage daily activities; set work schedules and deadlines.
• Manage operations and maintenance for assigned facilities; develop budgets.
• Recommend improvements for preventive maintenance and safety manuals.
• Act as point of contact for outside contractors and tenant finish personnel.
• Oversee building systems including fire/life safety, plumbing, HVAC, and electrical.
• Maintain communication with tenants, clients, owners, and vendors.
• Drive acquisition of new management contracts and develop as-built drawings.
• Manage engineering incidents and stakeholder management.
• Apply knowledge of the business to achieve department objectives.
• Lead by example in CBRE RISE values; influence others while following policies.
• Identify and solve technical and operational problems; understand broader impact.
• Improve methods, processes, and standards within the discipline.

Skills

Leadership

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Budgeting

MS Office

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

About the Role:

As a CBRE EMEA Engineering Lead you will manage the team responsible for all mechanical operations, maintenance, communications, energy management, and workforce development programs for a facility, campus, or portfolio of buildings.

This job is part of the Engineering and Technical Services job function.They are responsible for operating and maintaining all MEP and life safety systems to maintain asset uptime and lifecycle.

What You’ll Do:

• Provide formal supervision to employees. Monitor the training and development of staff. Conduct performance evaluations and coaching. Oversee the recruiting and hiring of new employees.
• Coordinate and manage the team's daily activities. Establish work schedules, assign tasks, and cross-train staff. Set and track staff and department deadlines. Mentor and coach as needed.
• Manage operations and maintenance for assigned facilities. Develop operating and capital budgets.
• Recommend and implement improvements for preventive maintenance programs on an on-going basis. Create and maintain effective building-specific maintenance and safety procedure manuals.
• Point of contact for maintenance efforts with outside contractors, tenant finish personnel and technicians.
• Oversee all building systems including fire/life safety, plumbing, HVAC, and electrical issues. Must remain current with latest technology trends.
• Maintain on-going communication with high profile tenants, clients, owners, facility management team and vendors.
• Drive the acquisition of new management contracts. Facilitate the development of as-built drawings.
• Manage and respond to all engineering incidents including leading technical recovery and stakeholder management.
• Apply a broad knowledge of the business, own discipline, and how own discipline integrates with others to achieve team and departmental objectives.
• Lead by example and model behaviors that are consistent with CBRE RISE values. Influence others to adopt a different point of view while being guided by policies and departmental plans.
• Identify and solve technical and operational problems of complexity.
• Understand and recognize the broader impact across the department.
• Improve and change existing methods, processes, and standards within job discipline.

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor's Degree preferred with 5 - 8 years of relevant experience. In lieu of a degree, a combination of experience and education will be considered. Chartered Engineer status will be preferable but not essential.
• Experience of working in a fast-paced blue chip corporate environment and critical facilities, and able to operate in a matrix environment.
• Ability to lead the exchange of sensitive, complicated, and difficult information, convey performance expectations and handle problems.
• Leadership skills to motivate the team to achieve broad operational targets with impacts on own job discipline, multiple job disciplines, and department.
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office products. Examples include Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.
• Extensive organizational skills and an advanced inquisitive mindset.

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