Union Assistant Chief Engineer

CBRE; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in facility management is seeking a Union Assistant Chief Engineer in Chicago. The role involves guiding operations and ensuring maintenance of buildings and systems. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills, a proactive approach to problem-solving, and the ability to communicate complex ideas effectively.

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge in engineering and technical services.
• Ability to manage operations and train coworkers.

Responsibilities

• Manage shift operations and assign work orders.
• Develop preventive maintenance programs for machinery.
• Respond to emergency situations and perform repairs.

Skills

Leadership

Problem Solving

Communication

Job description

CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) | Local is a hard services-led, tailored facility management solution. We self-perform hard services while partnering with best-in-class soft service providers to offer bespoke facility and project management solutions to our clients. We focus on empowering our team with a high-level of downstream accountability resulting in an agile and efficient service delivery.

In addition to our core facility and project management capabilities, our platform offers direct access to our Best-in-Classservices, including ESG, Security Consulting, Workplace Strategy, and Workplace Experience.

About the Role:

As a CBRE Union Assistant Chief Engineer, you will guide operations, vendors, and subcontractors to maintain and repair buildings, industrial systems, vehicles, equipment, and grounds.

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:

• Follow codes, regulations, government agency, and Company directives related to operations and safety.
• Manage shift operations, assign work orders, and provide training to coworkers and subcontractors.
• Review monthly tenant service request summaries to pinpoint and correct recurrent operational problems.
• Develop a preventive maintenance program for machinery and systems.
• Inspect systems to ensure operation within normal parameters.
• Maintain inventory of supplies and tools, ordering necessary materials to complete all tasks.
• Schedule preventive maintenance and downtime to cut business interruption and inconvenience.
• Perform repairs, emergency, and preventive maintenance, completing maintenance and repair records as required.
• Respond timely to emergency situations, requesting extra help as needed.
• Apply advanced knowledge to seek and develop new, better methods for accomplishing both individual and department objectives.
• Showcase expertise in own job discipline and in-depth knowledge of other job disciplines within the organization function.
• Coach others to develop in-depth knowledge and expertise in most or all areas within the function.
• Lead by example and model behaviors that are consistent with CBRE RISE values. Anticipates potential objections and persuades others, often at senior levels and of divergent interest, to adopt a different point of view.
• Impact the achievement of customer, operational, project, or service objectives across multi-discipline teams. Work is guided by functional policies which impact the design of procedures and policies.
• Contribute to new products, processes, standards, and/or operational plans in support of achieving functional goals.
• Communicate difficult and complex ideas with the ability to influence.