Sr. Maintenance Manager

CBRE; Stone Mountain (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision

401k company matching

Paid time off and holidays

Company paid life insurance

Pet insurance

Paid parental leave

Job summary

CBRE is seeking a Senior Maintenance Manager to lead maintenance operations for a major client in the Georgia region. The role focuses on reliability, KPI adherence, and safety, while partnering with client leadership to ensure high-quality service delivery.

The SMM will mentor a team of Maintenance Managers, drive cost-effective budgeting, and optimize processes across the site network, fostering a safety-first culture and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial, Electrical, Mechanical, Civil or equivalent.
• 7+ years of leadership experience in a manufacturing or maintenance environment.
• 4+ years with maintenance of manufacturing equipment.
• Strong communication, presentation and analytical skills.
• Proficient with financial reporting, forecasting and budgeting.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor Maintenance and Area Maintenance Managers.
• Develop reliability plans to increase facility uptime.
• Ensure KPI compliance and safety standards.
• Manage budgets, contracts, and procurement.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition to recruit site leaders.
• Oversee vendor relationships and service delivery.

Skills

Leadership

Maintenance management

Budgeting

Safety compliance

Vendor management

Communication

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

MS Excel

MS Office

Job description

CBRE is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity

At CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS), safety is our top priority. We foster a safety-first culture where employees are empowered to perform at their best and return home safely every day. We’re looking for a skilled and forward-thinking Senior Maintenance Manager (SMM) to join our growing team as we work to service one of the world’s largest online retailers.

Read on to learn more!

About The Role

In this role, the SMM builds trusted relationships with client leadership and ensures maintenance operations consistently align with service level agreements and business objectives. The SMM plays a critical role in promoting a safe, compliant, and performance-driven work environment. This role provides operational and client leadership, overseeing maintenance performance, preventive maintenance execution, and KPI compliance while partnering closely with client leadership to ensure consistent service delivery, rapid resolution, and operational excellence across the region.

What You’ll Do

• Maintain a safety-first culture in which CBRE employees return home in the same condition in which they reported to work.
• Provide leadership to a team of Maintenance and Area Maintenance Managers.
• Develop and implement reliability plans that support increasing the uptime of the facility.
• Ensure compliance with standard process and procedures; trains, commissions equipment, collects, measures, and analyzes key performance indicators to improve processes and enhance customer experience.
• Lead vendor relationships to ensure sites are receiving world class service.
• Provide monitoring, auditing, and implementation of maintenance execution, and institutes and audits training drills across the network.
• Maintain accountability for budgets, capital planning and contract documents including RFPs, change order controls, purchase orders, and invoicing.
• Partners with Talent Acquisition to recruit, interview, and hire bar raising talent for site leadership roles.
• Lead/Support the performance of employees through mentoring and skill development to improve work performance and develop employee potential.
• Participate in corporate-sponsored programs & activities as required, including incident investigations, interviews, auditing, and assessment, etc.
• Monitor appropriate staffing levels and reports on utilization and deployment of human resources.
• Cultivate positive working relationships with our Client and Operations Maintenance team members.

What You’ll Need

• Bachelor's (BA/BS) degree in a technical field (Industrial, Electrical, Mechanical, Civil) or 2 years on Client account required.
• 7+ years’ experience leading and coaching employee performance in a manufacturing or maintenance environment. Must include experience in supervising hourly and salaried employees.
• 4+ years' experience working directly with the maintenance and upkeep of manufacturing equipment.
• Excellent communication, presentation, problem solving, and analytical skills.
• Advanced knowledge of financial terms and principles, as well as financial reporting, forecasting and budgeting
• Proficient Microsoft Office Suite experience (Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.)
• Expert level analytical and quantitative skills with experience in developing strategic solutions for a growing matrix-based multi-industry sales environment.
• Ability to read and interpret drawings, blueprints, and/or schematics.
• Knowledge of materials, methods, and tools used to perform maintenance and repair of manufacturing equipment.
• Working knowledge of predictive maintenance technologies, including thermography, vibration analysis, and airborne ultrasound.
• Proven knowledge of how to conduct repairs and preventive/predictive maintenance on electrical and mechanical equipment.
• Ability to travel up to 25% required.
• Ability to move up to 50lbs and physical requirements including stooping, standing, walking, and climbing stairs / ladders with or without reasonable accommodation.

CBRE Employee Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision
• Disability benefit program
• 401k company matching
• Paid time off and holidays
• Company paid life insurance
• Pet insurance
• Paid parental leave

Why CBRE?

We invest in our employees’ development. The core of our strategy is the view that development happens through three key activities: on-the-job learning, coaching, and formal training. We provide employees with resources that support them in developing skills to enhance performance in their current role as well as for future roles.

We offer competitive pay, a robust benefits package, wellness programs, and a workplace environment that embraces diversity. Come join our global network of professionals supporting client operations across CBRE. Looking for growth and career advancement? Upon completing six months of successful service, associates may explore career advancement opportunities within the organization!

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).