Facilities Manager

CBRE Group, Inc.; Cork; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

CBRE Group, Inc. in Cork seeks a Facilities Manager to lead technical operations, coordinate with vendors, and oversee maintenance programs.

You will manage safety compliance, asset data, and critical systems, while driving cost efficiencies and reliable building performance. The role requires strong communication, hands-on technical knowledge, and the ability to respond to after-hours incidents.

Qualifications

• Fluent English in speaking and writing.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in a similar role.
• Strong technical knowledge in building systems.
• Experience with building technical systems (BMS, HVAC, UPS, generators, fire protection).
• Understanding of Irish electrical regulations and HSA guidelines.
• Ability to work under pressure and respond to critical failures (out of hours).
• Excellent verbal and email communication skills.
• Team-oriented with cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end facility technical operations and act as escalation point.
• Coordinate with vendors, project teams, and occupancy services.
• Develop and manage preventive maintenance and asset replacement plans.
• Inspect and audit suppliers and critical systems to prevent downtime.
• Ensure compliance with health, safety, and regulatory requirements.
• Respond to critical incidents and outages, including after-hours support.
• Maintain up-to-date logbooks and documentation.
• Drive cost efficiencies and reliable building performance.

Skills

Fluent English

Stress tolerance

Adaptability

Teamwork

Communication

Ownership

F-Gas regulations knowledge

Electrical regs knowledge

Technical knowledge

Tools

BMS

HVAC systems

UPS

Generators

Vesda

Job description

Key Accountabilities

• Facilities Manager cooperates with Hard Services Vendors, project team, maintenanceand operations, suppliers oversight, purchases, and occupancy services. Technical Coordinator isproviding supervision and guidance to all technical aspects of building technical infrastructure in openspaces and especially in its technical areas like laboratories and IDF rooms
• · Close cooperation with vendors suppling technical services to the facilities infrastructure to
• ensure required standard of performance
• · Negotiate technical contracts to optimize delivery and cost savings
• · Confirm the accurancy of vendor invoices
• · Cooperation with client to avoid any problems during maintenance and technical projects
• realisation
• · Proactive acting to prevent any obstacles when technical project in progress
• · Proactive acting to prevent problems that may arise with the facilities hardware
• · Anticipate faults and minimize the possibility of their occurrence
• · Inspections and audits of suppliers
• · Inspections with technicians of technical infrastructure and critical systems to prevent any
• unplanned downtime or failures
• · Create annual Planned Preventative Maintenance plan and maintain it in proper and accurateway
• · Assuring PPMs of critical systems are done accordance with the law regulations
• · Reporting defects using internal tools to create tickets
• · Creating long range high value asset replacement plan based on their current usage
• · Warranty keeping and processing
• · Keep list of high value assets up to date
• · Cooperate with Health and Safety department provide suppliers technical related
• documentation and procedures: Logbooks, H&S Authorization and Permits to work
• · Seek ways to reduce utilities costs
• · Seek and implement new solutions which keep the facility safe from downtime and failure
• · Close cooperation with Security Team to ensure highest standard
• · Assuring all action after Security PPMs are taken care of and system is running seamlessly
• · Ensure all technical documentation is in place and in accordance with legal requirements
• · Provide data to keep logbooks up to date and complete
• Manage and conduction black building tests (helping with conduction)
• · Management of Purchase Orders · Assuring all technicians having proper certifications to conduct their works
• · Identify areas where refurbishments are needed and motivate budgets
• · Ensure all tickets for the site are updated regularly and in a professional manner
• · Assist in the procurement of vendors and services as required
• · Conduct regular health and safety audits to ensure all safety procedures are in place and working properly
• · Maintain premises in neat and good working conditions at all times
• · Cooperate with Health and Safety department to arrange various initiatives
• · Needs to react from time to time in critical failure situations (out of hours).
• · Take full end-to-end ownership of the facility’s technical operations, acting as the primary point of escalation for all technical emergencies and business continuity threats
• · Lead critical incident responses (e.g., power outages, UPS/Chiller failures, VESDA alarms), ensuring immediate reaction, mitigation, and conducting comprehensive Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to prevent reoccurrence.
• · Conduct comprehensive daily, monthly, and quarterly site walks and audits of both internal facilities and external suppliers to ensure highest standards of FM service delivery and H&S compliance.

Requirements

• · Fluent English in speaking and writing
• · Job related experience is required - minimum 3 years in similar role
• · Strong technical knowledge in general
• · Knowledge about building technical systems (BMS, Electric Power, Electrical maintenance, UPSes, Generators, HVAC systems, Vesda, Fire Protection) · Past experience of redesigning/ enlarging office space (as a member of a project team, or onsit
• · Stress tolerance and working well under pressure
• · Open minded approach to new knowledge
• · Ability to cooperate with people of different levels inside/outside the company and to interact with team to reach team goals and business objectives
• · Excellent quality of verbal and e-mail communicatio
• · High level of ownership, accountability, and readiness to act as an on-call escalation point for critical faults outside standard working hours
• · Working knowledge of EU/Irish F-Gas regulations and EPA compliance requirements regarding critical cooling infrastructure (supervisory level, holding personal F-Gas cert is not required but considered an asset).
• · Familiarity with Irish Electrical Regulations (I.S. 10101:2020) and HSA (Health and Safety Authority) guidelines.