FM Engineering Ops Manager - Remote w/ Travel

FM Engineering Ops Manager - Remote w/ Travel

Job ID

283214

Posted

29-Jun-2026

Service line

GWS Segment

Role type

Full-time

Areas of Interest

Engineering/Maintenance

Location(s)

Irvine - California - United States of America, Los Angeles - California - United States of America, Riverside - California - United States of America, San Bernardino - California - United States of America, San Diego - California - United States of America, Santa Ana - California - United States of America

About the role

Are you a hands-on engineering leader who thrives on driving performance, building strong teams, and optimizing complex facilities?

As an FM Engineering Operations Manager, you'll take ownership of engineering operations across a portfolio of facilities-leading high-performing teams, driving operational excellence, and delivering best-in-class service to our clients.

This is an opportunity to influence strategy, elevate building performance, and play a key role in shaping the success of critical infrastructure.

What you'll do

• Provide formal supervision to employees. Monitor the training and development of staff. Conduct performance evaluations and mentor. Oversee the recruiting and hiring of new employees.
• Coordinate and manage the team's daily activities. Establish work schedules, assign tasks, and cross-train staff. Set and track staff and department deadlines. Mentor and coach as needed.
• Manage operations and maintenance for assigned facilities. Develop operating and capital budgets.
• Recommend and implement improvements for preventive maintenance programs on an ongoing basis. Build and maintain effective building-specific maintenance and safety procedure manuals.
• Point of contact for maintenance efforts with outside contractors, tenant finish personnel and technicians.
• Oversee all building systems including fire/life safety, plumbing, HVAC, and electrical issues. Must remain current with the latest technology trends.
• Maintain ongoing communication with high profile tenants, clients, owners, facility management team and vendors.
• Drive the acquisition of new management contracts. Facilitate the development of as-built drawings.
• Respond to emergency situations (fire, evacuation, equipment failure etc.) and customer concerns.
• 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.
• Additional responsibilities as required.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's Degree preferred with 5 - 8 years of relevant experience. In lieu of a degree, a combination of experience and education will be considered.
• 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 balance problems.
• Leadership skills to motivate the team to achieve broad operational targets.
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office products. Examples include Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.

Why CBRE?

We are guided by the needs of the cities we inhabit, the communities we build and the world we thrive in!

• Benefits start 1st of the month: Medical, dental vision, PTO, 401k, holiday pay, and much more!
• Internal advancement available after 6 month mark
• Competitive Pay

DISCLAIMERS

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future

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.

• California Residents: CBRE carefully considers multiple factors to determine compensation, including a candidate's education, training and experience. The salary range is $110,000 - $123,000 + Bonus per annual. The compensation offered to a successful candidate will depend on the candidate's skills, qualifications and experience.

Equal Employment Opportunity: CBRE has 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 recruitingaccommodations@cbre.com or via telephone at +1 866 225 3099 (U.S.) and +1 866 388 4346 (Canada).

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