Senior Data Center Electrical & Facilities Manager

CBRE; Newark (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(K)

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Life insurance

Vision insurance

Job summary

CBRE is seeking a Technical Sr. Manager in Newark, NJ to lead mechanical operations, maintenance, energy management, and workforce development for a facility portfolio.

You will supervise staff, coordinate daily activities, and manage budgets while ensuring safe, reliable building systems and strong client communication. This role emphasizes leadership, mentorship, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree preferred with 5 - 8 years of relevant experience.
• Experience in staffing, training, development, coaching, mentoring, measuring, appraising, and rewarding performance and retention is preferred.
• Ability to lead the exchange of sensitive, complicated, and difficult information, convey performance expectations and handle problems.
• Leadership skills to motivate the team to achieve broad operational targets with impacts on own job discipline, multiple job disciplines, and department.
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office products.

Responsibilities

• 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. Develop operating and capital budgets.
• Recommend and implement improvements for preventive maintenance programs on an on-going basis. Create and maintain effective building-specific maintenance and safety procedure manuals.
• Point of contact for 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 latest technology trends.
• Maintain on-going communication with high profile tenants, clients, owners, facility management team and vendors.
• Drive the acquisition of new management contracts. Facilitate the development of as-built drawings.
• Respond to emergency situations (fire, evacuation, equipment failure etc.) and customer concerns.
• Apply a broad knowledge of the business, own discipline, and how own discipline integrates with others to achieve team and departmental objectives.
• Lead by example and model behaviors that are consistent with CBRE RISE values. Influence others to adopt a different point of view while being guided by policies and departmental plans.
• Identify and solve technical and operational problems of complexity.
• Understand and recognize the broader impact across the department.
• Improve and change existing methods, processes, and standards within job discipline.

Skills

Team leadership

Staff development

Performance coaching

Budgeting

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

CBRE is seeking a Technical Sr. Manager in Newark, NJ to lead mechanical operations, maintenance, energy management, and workforce development for a facility portfolio.

You will supervise staff, coordinate daily activities, and manage budgets while ensuring safe, reliable building systems and strong client communication. This role emphasizes leadership, mentorship, and continuous improvement.