Sr Facilities Manager (Denver, CO)

CBRE; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

CBRE is seeking a Sr Facilities Manager to oversee operations and maintenance for healthcare facilities across Colorado, Kansas, and Utah. You will lead a distributed team, ensure regulatory compliance, and drive cost-saving initiatives while maintaining high standards of service.

The role emphasizes onsite leadership, vendor management, and collaboration with executive stakeholders to advance capital projects and operating budgets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred with 10 years of relevant experience.
• Facility management certification preferred.
• Authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.
• Strong administrative and documentation expertise.
• Experience leading, coaching, and mentoring facility staff.
• Experience managing regulatory compliance in healthcare facilities.

Responsibilities

• Oversee a large portfolio of hospitals, clinics, and medical office buildings.
• Maintain onsite presence at least 50% of the time with travel.
• Lead environmental health and safety protocols across the portfolio.
• Direct maintenance programs for HVAC, electrical, plumbing, and life safety.
• Mentor and supervise facility managers and onsite staff.
• Manage vendor contracts, quotes, and procurement.
• Monitor budgets and identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Prepare updates for executive stakeholders.

Skills

Staffing

Training

Coaching

Mentoring

Performance management

Regulatory compliance

Leadership

Administrative skills

MS Office

Financial calculations

Education

Bachelor's degree

Facility management certification

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

About the Role

As a CBRE Sr Facilities Manager, you will manage comprehensive building operations and maintenance functions across a complex portfolio of healthcare facilities across Colorado, Kansas and Utah. You will be responsible for ensuring high-performance facility standards, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence while providing strategic leadership to a distributed team.

This job is a part of the Facilities Management functional area which focuses on all aspects of the operations of a set of assets, providing support to the Property Managers regarding all repairs and investment plans.

What You'll Do

• Oversee a large portfolio of hospitals, clinics, and medical office buildings across Colorado, Utah, and Kansas.
• Maintain an onsite presence at least 50% of the time, including one week of travel per month to facilities outside of the Denver market, with remote work flexibility when not traveling.
• Conduct frequent site inspections to verify adherence to local, state, and federal healthcare facility regulations.
• Direct environmental health and safety (EHS) protocols across the portfolio.
• Manage technical maintenance programs for HVAC, electrical, plumbing, and life safety systems.
• Mentor, train, and provide formal supervision to facility managers and onsite technical staff.
• Optimize daily team operations and work order workflows to ensure timely resolution and high-quality service delivery.
• Manage vendor contracts, service agreements, and procurement processes, including reviewing price quotes for parts, services, and labor.
• Monitor portfolio budgets, ensure fiscal discipline, and identify proactive cost-saving opportunities.
• Recommend operational efficiencies, infrastructure repairs, and capital improvement projects.
• Act as the primary point of contact for executive-level stakeholders, leading updates and addressing complex facility issues.
• Prepare and manage high-profile capital projects, operating budgets, and detailed variance reporting.
• 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 10 years of relevant experience. In lieu of a degree, a combination of experience and education will be considered. Valid driver's license required. Facility Management certification preferred.
• 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.
• Must live in the Denver, CO area.
• Strong administrative and documentation expertise.
• Proven record of managing facility compliance and regulatory standards.
• 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.
• Intermediate math skills. Ability to calculate complicated figures such as percentages, fractions, and other financial-related calculations.
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Why CBRE?

• When you join CBRE, you become part of the global leader in commercial real estate services and investment that helps businesses and people thrive. We are dynamic problem solvers and forward-thinking professionals who create significant impact. Our collaborative culture is built on our shared values - respect, integrity, service and excellence - and we value the diverse perspectives, backgrounds and skillsets of our people. At CBRE, you have the opportunity to chart your own course and realize your potential. We welcome all applicants.

Applicant AI Use Disclosure

• We value human interaction to understand each candidate's unique experience, skills and aspirations. We do not use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to make hiring decisions, and we ask that candidates disclose any use of AI in the application and interview process.