BU Technical Manager
Job ID 218562
Posted 13-Jun-2025
Service line GWS Segment
Role type Full-time
Areas of Interest Data Centers, Engineering/Maintenance, Executive Management, Facilities Management
Location(s) London - England - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Job Title: Business Unit Technical Manager
Business Sector: CBRE Data Centre Solutions
Location: London (East and surrouding areas)
Company Profile
CBRE is the global leader in real estate services and leverages the industry's most powerful knowledge base to meet the commercial real estate needs of its clients worldwide. Our vision is to be the preeminent, vertically integrated, globally capable real estate service firm. Globally, we employ over 70,000 employees and operate in 48 countries.
Purpose of the Job
CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) has a clear vision. Our key strategic goals involve putting our clients first, investing in top talent, delivering operational excellence and constant innovation.
Due to continued growth, we are recruiting for a Business Unit Technical Manager to join an established Data Centre division supporting with multiple accounts (predominately in East London, with one site in Surrey).
Successful candidates will have a proven track record in mechanical and electrical maintenance engineering and excellent interpersonal skills. You will be electrically qualified with a proven track record (preferably) operating in Data Centre Environments.
Key Responsibilities
The duties of this role will include:
Provide onsite operations teams and clients with technical SME support.
Drive operational excellence across all data centres.
Promote risk management culture and lead the adoption and ongoing compliance with the DCS Shield program including CBRE risk management processes.
Proactively develop and implement risk reduction strategies to minimise risk and maximise uptime, ensuring risk registers and effective mitigations plans are in place.
Asset management focussing on asset data quality, FMRs and optimising maintenance strategies.
Incident management including root cause analysis / post problem reviews and producing incident reports and lessons learned documentation.
Act as Senior Authorised Person for HV / LV and confined space.
Undertake technical compliance audits and reviews.
Produce regular and ad hoc internal and external technical reports as required.
Mentor contract based technical managers, engineering operations managers and account leads in ensuring engineering best practice is adopted across the business unit.
Lead apprenticeship and technical training programs to enhance the development and competency of operational teams.
Provide technical SME support to project and business development teams.
Liaise and work in partnership with the QHSE team.
Engage with the business unit leadership team to support the business unit growth strategy.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
We are an equal opportunities employer and do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.