Global Technical Director

CBRE Global Workplace Solutions is a leading global provider of integrated facilities and corporate real estate management. We are currently recruiting a Global Technical Director.

The Technical Director is responsible for providing strategic direction to achieve hard-services operational excellence throughout CBRE’sport folio on the account. The role forms part of the Senior Leadership Team and contributes to the overall strategic roadmap to enable success and growth. This includes setting the Technical Strategy, leading the Technical Team in developing technical processes, assisting with site compliance processes,mentoring, growing the engineering knowledge of the account teams and building,developing and maintaining the global technical network.

They also, where appropriate drive consistency, operational alignment and knowledge sharing across regions and promote the correct implementation of rules and procedures for safe working.

The goal is to maintain excellent technical standards and compliance for the account, by implementing asset management strategies, conducting technical compliance updates and reviews, and ensuring risks are proactively managed to ensure uninterrupted operations.

• Promote and advance a critical engineering mindset to ensure efficient and safe operation and maintenance of engineering systems to achieve 100% plant availability and uptime.
• Establish risk management protocols to ensure uninterrupted operations.
• Establish and maintain Incident Management protocols including reporting, Root Cause Analysis, mitigation/elimination plans and lessons learned.
• Collaborate with Regional Technical Managers and site and country leads to ensure that all sites meet their technical statutory requirements and the requirements of the SFG
  20 maintenance standard.
• Create and lead the technical community network, acting as a technical authority to provide leadership, guidance and support to country teams as needed.
• Manage the technical stakeholder relationship between CBRE and the group technical leadership.
• Govern Technical Standards Documentation (MOP, SOP, EOP, BCP, etc.).
• Design and implement and Technical Needs Assessments, produce gap analysis reports, and oversee the development of training plans to ensure all teams are competent and legally compliant according to their technical infrastructure and local legislation.

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience as a Technical Director or Senior Operational Leader within a technical environment.
• Knowledge of industrial and production environments, data centers or large server rooms, critical M&E systems, and complex HV and LV systems.
• High level of competency and understanding of Critical Environment electrical infrastructures.
• Comprehensive understanding of HVAC systems and plant operations within production or mission critical environments.
• Global experience of managing technical systems and working with managerial and operations personnel in varying geographical regions.
• Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) from a four-year college or university and a minimum of eight to twelve years of related experience and/or training, including five years of experience at the management level.
• Degree-level qualification in mechanical and electrical engineering is highly desirable.
• Qualifications in Reliability Engineering is desirable.
• Have a positive and proactive approach to work and are able to work own initiative and as part of a large account team.

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