Engineering Operations Manager

CBRE; Michigan City (IN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CBRE is seeking an Engineering Ops Manager to lead a team responsible for all mechanical and electrical operations across a facility, campus, or portfolio. The role emphasizes supervision, maintenance, and KPI-driven performance of critical systems.

The successful candidate will coordinate daily activities, manage budgets, and drive continuous improvement while ensuring safety and adherence to standards. A Bachelor's degree is preferred with 3–5 years of relevant experience and professional body

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree preferred with 3-5 years of relevant experience.
• Membership of an Engineering related professional body (e.g., CIBSE/IEE) preferred.
• Experience in staffing, training, development, coaching, and performance management preferred.
• Ability to convey sensitive information, set expectations and address problems.
• Leadership to motivate team impact on quality, efficiency and effectiveness.
• Excellent client relationship skills.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Outlook).
• Extensive organizational skills with an inquisitive mindset.

Responsibilities

• Provide formal supervision to employees and conduct performance evaluations.
• Coordinate and manage the team's daily activities and schedules.
• Assist team with operations and maintenance issues.
• Direct contractors, subcontractors, and engineers on maintenance.
• Supervise daily operation of facility controls and asset systems.
• Enforce and merge standards into the facility maintenance program.
• Support annual operating budgets and forecast O&M costs.
• Schedule maintenance activities aligning with customer requirements.
• Support operational analysis of KPIs across engineering.
• Drive continuous improvement and peer reviews.
• Integrate with clients for changes and operational needs.
• Lead by example and model CBRE RISE values.
• Apply discipline knowledge to achieve team objectives.
• Identify and resolve day-to-day and moderately complex issues.

Skills

Leadership

Staffing

Client relations

Communication

Organizational skills

MS Office

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree

Engineering body membership

Job description

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.

Equal Employment Opportunity: CBRE is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity. We have a long-standing commitment to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, veteran status, political belief, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Candidate Accommodations: CBRE values the differences of all current and prospective employees and recognizes how every employee contributes to our company’s success. CBRE provides reasonable accommodations in job application procedures for individuals with disabilities. If you require assistance due to a disability in the application or recruitment process, please submit a request via email at [e-mail] or via telephone at [phone] (U.S.) and [phone] (Canada).