Engineering Operations Manager

CBRE; Morrisville (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

CBRE is seeking an Engineering Ops Manager to lead a team responsible for mechanical and electrical operations across facilities. You will oversee maintenance, budgets, and performance metrics while ensuring safety and reliability of building systems.

The role demands strong leadership, stakeholder collaboration, and hands-on guidance in operations and maintenance. On-site work at a CBRE facility with cross-functional coordination is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred with 3–5 years of relevant experience.
• Experience in staffing, coaching, mentoring, and performance management is preferred.
• Strong leadership skills to motivate a team and improve quality, efficiency, and effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Supervise staff, conduct evaluations, and support recruiting and hiring.
• Schedule and coordinate daily activities; set deadlines and train staff.
• Direct contractors and engineers on maintenance aspects and safety requirements.
• Oversee facility controls and asset management systems.

Skills

Leadership

Staffing & Development

Client relationship management

Microsoft Office

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

Tools

Microsoft Office

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.

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).