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 custom 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-Class services including ESG, Security Consulting, Workplace Strategy, and Workplace Experience.
About the Role:
As a CBRE Chief Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring all building engineering operations run smoothly. This job is part of the Engineering and Technical Services job function. They are responsible for proving support, preventive maintenance, and repairs on equipment and systems.
What You’ll Do:
- Manage operations, assign work orders, and provide technical and procedural training of coworkers and subcontractors.
- Consult with clients to schedule preventive maintenance and other downtime to reduce business interruption and inconvenience.
- Formulate and implement a preventive maintenance program to ensure that building machinery and systems meet or exceed their rated life.
- Monitor building systems including fire alarms, HVAC, and plumbing to ensure the operation of equipment is within design capabilities and achieves environmental conditions prescribed by the client.
- Oversee and inspect the work performed by engineering staff.
- Confirm that work is complete, equipment is fully functional and client space is in prime working condition.
- Respond to emergency situations, summoning additional assistance as needed.
- Apply extensive and diversified knowledge of principles, advanced techniques, and theories to create unprecedented solutions.
- Showcase in-depth expertise in cutting-edge theories, techniques, and/or technologies within own function.
- Use experience and knowledge of all job areas within a function, practical experience in several functional areas or businesses, or concentrated knowledge of a particular discipline to coach and guide others.
- Lead by example and model behaviors that are consistent with CBRE RISE values. Negotiates with senior management, customers, regulators, or vendors to influence decisions of strategic importance. Anticipate potential objections, and persuade others, often at senior levels and of divergent interest, to adopt a different point of view.
- Drive the direction and resource allocation for programs, projects, or services.
- Significantly impact the design of policies and procedures. Provide moderate impact on the business direction through the development of innovative services or products.