Assistant Chief Building Engineer - Data Center

The Assistant Chief Building Engineer at CBRE delivers operational excellence, leadership, and technical oversight for a high-value, 100% uptime tiered data center. This critical role serves as the secondary leader for the site's engineering team, ensuring that all power, cooling, and safety systems operate without interruption.

• Lead Team & Drive Operational Excellence
• Supervise and mentor a dedicated shift team of critical environment technicians and engineers.
• Coordinate daily work schedules, assign maintenance tasks, and manage vendor activities on-site.
• Act as the primary backup to the Chief Building Engineer, stepping in to lead site operations in their absence.
• Rotational On-Call Site Support - Rotate being the initial escalation point of contact (POC), in a 24x7 structure, IAW the sites on-call policies and plan. Ensuring timely response, recovery and reporting is being adhered to.
• Ensure Training, Safety, and Compliance
• Enforce a zero-harm safety culture by maintaining strict compliance with OSHA, NFPA 70E, and CBRE safety guidelines.
• Deliver continuous technical training and drills to ensure the engineering team can respond flawlessly to any site emergency.
• Oversee safety programs, including Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), electrical safety, and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) compliance.
• Document Control: MOP, SOP, and EOP
• Develop, review, and approve Method of Procedure (MOP) documents for all critical and non-critical maintenance window activities.
• Maintain and update Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Emergency Operating Procedures (EOPs/ESOPs) to guarantee high-reliability execution.
• Audit procedural compliance to ensure zero human-error downtime during maintenance windows.
• In-Depth Infrastructure Maintenance & Repairs
• Manage hands-on maintenance, troubleshooting, and repairs of complex critical infrastructure.
• Oversee electrical systems, including medium/low voltage distribution, switch gear, UPS systems, central battery plants, and emergency diesel generators.
• Oversee mechanical systems, including chillers, cooling towers, CRAH/CRAC units, visual monitoring systems, and water treatment loops.
• Utilize EPMS and BMS systems to trend data, monitor site health, and preemptively identify equipment anomalies.
• Incident Management & Escalation
• Lead the immediate technical response to infrastructure anomalies, equipment alarms, or component failures to protect the critical load.
• Execute escalation pathways swiftly, notifying senior management and clients according to strict service level agreements (SLAs).
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA):
  Spearhead the post-incident investigation process to identify root causes and implement permanent corrective actions.
• Capital Planning, R&M, and Budgeting
• Partner with the Chief Engineer to manage the Repair and Maintenance (R&M) budget, ensuring cost-effective operations.
• Assess equipment life cycles and provide technical data to support long-term Capital Expenditure (Cap Ex) planning.
• Track parts inventory and critical spares to eliminate supply-chain lag for emergency repairs.