Senior Engineering Operations Lead

CBRE; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global real estate services firm in London seeks a Senior Engineering Operations Lead to oversee mechanical and electrical operations. This role involves managing a team, ensuring maintenance standards, and improving operational efficiencies. Candidates should have relevant experience, leadership skills, and a Bachelor's degree. The position offers a full-time contract.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of relevant experience preferred.
• Ability to guide the exchange of sensitive information.
• Experience in staffing, mentoring, and performance appraisal.

Responsibilities

• Provide formal supervision to employees and oversee recruiting.
• Coordinate and manage the team's daily activities efficiently.
• Drive continuous improvement, peer reviews, and site assessments.

Skills

Leadership skills

Excellent client relationship skills

Extensive organizational skills

In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Membership of an Engineering related professional body

Job description

Senior Engineering Operations Lead

Job ID

231175

Posted

28-Jul-2025

Service line

GWS Segment

Role type

Full-time

Areas of Interest

Engineering/Maintenance

Location(s)

London - England - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

About the Role:

As a CBRE Engineering Ops Manager, you will manage a team responsible for implementing, coordinating, and managing all mechanical and electrical operations for a facility, campus, or portfolio of buildings.

This job is part of the Engineering and Technical Services job function. They are responsible for providing support, preventive maintenance, and repairs on equipment and systems.

What You’ll Do:

• Provide formal supervision to employees. Monitor the training and development of staff. Conduct performance evaluations. 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.

• Assist team with operations and maintenance issues.

• Direct contractors, subcontractors, and engineers on the entire maintenance aspect.

• Supervise and manage the daily operation of facility controls and asset management systems.

• Enforce and merge customer engineering, maintenance standards, and requirements into the facility maintenance program and any configuration changes.

• Support preparation of annual operating budgets. Evaluate, forecast, and manage operations and maintenance costs for a specific location.

• Schedule maintenance activities complying with customer operational requirements.

• Support operational analysis of all engineering related performance metrics (KPIs).

• Drive continuous improvement and innovation. Support the undertaking of peer reviews, site assessments, and technical competence evaluations.

• Integrate with clients for reconfiguration, changes, and operational requirements.

• Lead by example and model behaviors that are consistent with CBRE RISE values. Influence parties of shared interests to reach an agreement.

• Apply knowledge of own discipline and how own discipline integrates with others to achieve team and departmental objectives.

• Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve day-to-day and moderately complex issues that may or may not be evident in existing systems and processes.

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor's Degree preferred with 3-5 years of relevant experience. In lieu of a degree, a combination of experience and education will be considered.

• Membership of an Engineering related professional body i.e. CIBSE/ IEE preferred.

• Experience in the areas of staffing, selection, training, development, coaching, mentoring, measuring, appraising, and rewarding performance and retention preferred.

• Ability to guide the exchange of sensitive, complicated, and difficult information, convey performance expectations and handle problems.

• Leadership skills to motivate team impact on quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of the job discipline and department.

• Excellent client relationship skills.

• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office products. Examples include Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.

• Extensive organizational skills with a strong inquisitive mindset.

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EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

We are an equal opportunities employer and do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.

ABOUT CBRE

CBRE is the world’s leading commercial real estate services firm with offices located around the globe. CBRE currently employs roughly 80,000 people worldwide, with 2,500 working in the UK. The Company’s core services include property sales, leasing and management, facilities and project management, investment management and, research and consulting. In central London, CBRE advises on more commercial property than any other adviser and across the United Kingdom with offices in Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Jersey, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, and Southampton.

CBRE, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer (Women/Minorities/Persons with Disabilities/US Veterans)