Sr Data Center Electrical Engineer Technical Manager

CBRE Group, Inc.; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CBRE Group, Inc. is seeking a Technical Sr. Manager to lead a team responsible for mechanical operations, maintenance, energy management, and workforce development across facilities.

The role sits within Engineering and Technical Services, focusing on preventive maintenance, repairs, and building systems support for a portfolio of properties, with emphasis on collaboration with tenants and vendors.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of relevant experience.
• Experience in staffing, training, development, and performance management is preferred.
• Ability to convey performance expectations and handle problems.

Responsibilities

• Provide formal supervision and develop staff through coaching and evaluations.
• Coordinate daily team activities, set schedules, assign tasks, and mentor staff.
• Manage operations and maintenance for facilities and develop operating budgets.
• Recommend improvements for preventive maintenance and maintain maintenance/safety manuals.
• Serve as point of contact with contractors and tenants for maintenance efforts.
• Oversee building systems (fire safety, plumbing, HVAC, electrical) and stay current with tech trends.
• Maintain communication with tenants, clients, and vendors; drive new contracts.
• Respond to emergencies and ensure issue resolution; align actions with department goals.
• Lead by example to model CBRE RISE values and influence others in policy-driven directions.
• Identify and solve technical and operational problems within scope.

Skills

Staffing

Training

Coaching

Performance management

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

About the Role:

As a CBRE Technical Sr. Manager, you will manage 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. 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.

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor's Degree preferred with 5 - 8 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 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. Examples include Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.
• Extensive organizational skills and an advanced inquisitive mindset.