Engineering Ops Manager
CBRE GWS GmbH
Zürich
Key information
- Publication date:12 December 2025
- Workload:100%
- Contract type:Permanent position
- Language:English (Fluent)
- Place of work:Zürich
CBRE Global Workplace Solutions provides integrated facility management services on all continents with more than 60,000 employees. In Switzerland, the GWS division provides technical, infrastructural and commercial facility management services for clients from various industries.
For our growing Facility Management organization at a client in Zürich we are looking for a:
Engineering Ops Manager
Your main tasks:
- Provide formal supervision to employees. Monitor the training and development of staff. Conduct performance evaluations. 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.
- Assist team with operations and maintenance issues.
- Direct contractors, subcontractors, and engineers on the entire maintenance aspect.
- Supervise and manage the daily operation of facility controls and asset management systems.
- Enforce and merge customer engineering, maintenance standards, and requirements into the facility maintenance program and any configuration changes.
- Support preparation of annual operating budgets. Evaluate, forecast, and manage operations and maintenance costs for a specific location.
- Schedule maintenance activities complying with customer operational requirements.
- Support operational analysis of all engineering related performance metrics (KPIs).
- Drive continuous improvement and innovation. Support the undertaking of peer reviews, site assessments, and technical competence evaluations.
- Integrate with clients for reconfiguration, changes, and operational requirements.
- Lead by example and model behaviors that are consistent with CBRE RISE values. Influence parties of shared interests to reach an agreement.
- Apply knowledge of own discipline and how own discipline integrates with others to achieve team and departmental objectives.
- Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve day-to-day and moderately complex issues that may or may not be evident in existing systems and processes.
Your profile:
- Provide formal supervision to employees. Monitor the training and development of staff. Conduct performance evaluations. 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.
- Assist team with operations and maintenance issues.
- Direct contractors, subcontractors, and engineers on the entire maintenance aspect.
- Supervise and manage the daily operation of facility controls and asset management systems.
- Enforce and merge customer engineering, maintenance standards, and requirements into the facility maintenance program and any configuration changes.
- Support preparation of annual operating budgets. Evaluate, forecast, and manage operations and maintenance costs for a specific location.
- Schedule maintenance activities complying with customer operational requirements.
- Support operational analysis of all engineering related performance metrics (KPIs).
- Drive continuous improvement and innovation. Support the undertaking of peer reviews, site assessments, and technical competence evaluations.
- Integrate with clients for reconfiguration, changes, and operational requirements.
- Lead by example and model behaviors that are consistent with CBRE RISE values. Influence parties of shared interests to reach an agreement.
- Apply knowledge of own discipline and how own discipline integrates with others to achieve team and departmental objectives.
- Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve day-to-day and moderately complex issues that may or may not be evident in existing systems and processes.
What we can offer you:
- Open and innovative working environment with design options
- Regional and international development opportunities in a fast-growing company
- Wide range of internal and external training opportunities
- CBRE GWS as a global player in the service sector with well-known customers from a multinational environment
- Good framework conditions, such as at least five weeks of vacation, 40 hours a week, as well as an attractive pension fund solution.
Contact: Edwin Murray, Talent Acquisition Partner, +41 79 501 50 93
We look forward to receiving your application!
CBRE
Edwin Murray
Edwin Murray
