Technical Manager

CBRE; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 420,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

CBRE seeks a Technical Manager to oversee mechanical operations and maintenance for a portfolio of buildings. You will lead a facilities team, develop budgets, and coordinate with contractors, tenants and vendors to ensure reliability and safety.

You will guide staff development, mentor the team, implement preventive maintenance, and stay current with building systems and technology trends. This role demands leadership and strong organizational skills in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree preferred with 3-5 years of relevant experience.
• Experience in staffing, selection, training, development, coaching, mentoring, measuring, appraising, and rewarding performance and retention preferred.
• Ability to guide the exchange of sensitive information and convey performance expectations.
• Leadership skills to motivate team and improve quality and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Provide formal supervision to employees. Monitor training, development, evaluations, and coaching; oversee recruitment.
• Coordinate and manage the team's daily activities; set schedules, assign tasks, cross-train staff, track deadlines.
• Manage operations and maintenance for facilities; assist in operating and capital budgets.
• Implement improvements for preventive maintenance programs and maintain manuals.
• Coordinate maintenance with contractors, tenant finish personnel, and technicians.
• Oversee building systems including fire/life safety, plumbing, HVAC and electrical; stay updated on tech trends.
• Guide ongoing communication with tenants, clients, owners, facility management, and vendors.
• Facilitate acquisition of new management contracts and maintain as-built drawings.
• Respond to emergencies and customer concerns.
• Lead by example and model CBRE RISE values.
• Apply cross-disciplinary knowledge to achieve team objectives.
• Identify and resolve day-to-day and moderately complex issues.

Skills

Leadership

Staff mentoring

Coaching

Communication

Project management

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

About The Role

As a CBRE Technical Manager, you will assist with the management of 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 providing support, preventive maintenance, and repairs on equipment and systems.

About The Role

As a CBRE Technical Manager, you will assist with the management of 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 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 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. Assist in the development of operating and capital budgets.

• Implement improvements for preventive maintenance programs on an ongoing basis. Maintain effective building-specific maintenance and safety procedure manuals.
• Coordinate 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 the latest technology trends.

• Guide ongoing communication with tenants, clients, owners, facility management team, and vendors.
• Facilitate the acquisition of new management contracts and maintain as-built drawings.
• Respond to emergency situations and customer concerns.
• 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.
• 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.
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office products. Examples include Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.
• Extensive organizational skills with a strong inquisitive mind.

Why CBRE

When youjoin CBRE, you become part of the global leader in commercial real estateservices and investment that helps businesses and people thrive. We are dynamicproblem solvers and forward-thinking professionals who create significantimpact. Our collaborative culture is built on our shared values — respect,integrity, service and excellence — and we value the diverse perspectives,backgrounds and skillsets of our people. At CBRE, you have the opportunity tochart your own course and realize your potential. We welcome all applicants.

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We valuehuman interaction to understand each candidate's unique experience, skills andaspirations. We do not use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to make hiringdecisions, and we ask that candidates disclose any use of AI in the applicationand interview process.