Engineering Supervisor

Engineering Supervisor

Job ID: 213897

Posted: 11-Apr-2025

Service line: GWS Segment

Role type: Full-time

Areas of Interest: Engineering/Maintenance

Location(s): Nottingham - England - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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.

Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) is a division of CBRE uniquely positioned to provide a complete set of services to corporate occupiers of commercial real estate across EMEA. GWS is redefining ‘workplace’ because we believe every place of work can become a competitive advantage for our clients. Productivity, reliability, engagement, quality, brand — the workplace contributes to business results, whether it’s an office, a retail outlet, a laboratory, a data centre, a manufacturing environment or a virtual location.

Job Title: Engineering Supervisor

CBRE Global Workplace Solutions, leading global provider of integrated facilities and corporate real estate management, are recruiting a Lead Engineer to join the team located in Nottingham.

The successful candidate will be able to apply a risk-focused maintenance approach and operations of plant and systems in data centres/critical environments and general office environments.

Role Summary:

1. Provide leadership and supervision of an in-house team of engineering staff for a defined contract.
2. Ensure business policies and processes are effectively communicated and implemented within the site.
3. Ensure the provision of healthy and safe working conditions, and that both Client and Company health and safety policy and process are effectively implemented across both in-house and subcontractor’s activities.
4. Drive a culture of first-class customer service across your site, and ensure effective relationships are harnessed with key Client contacts.
5. Assist the Technical Manager to ensure the site is staffed by fully capable teams, ensuring post holders are competent, and that effective succession planning arrangements are in place.
6. Identify business risks and issues, adopting appropriate counter measures to minimise downtime and exposure for both the Company and Client.
7. Work with other operational Leads (Company and Client) to ensure the collaborative development of the business, effective teamworking, and support to colleagues.
8. Implement appropriate control measures, such as inspections, to ensure statutory, policy, and contractual commitments are met.
9. Provide leadership and guidance, advice, coaching and direct support, where required to deliver best practice selection, training, assessment and recognition/reward.
10. Promote and maintain the core Values of the Company.
11. Deliver effective business communication through advice, review, leadership and direct contribution to management and team meetings, briefings, consultation forums, correspondence, publicity, monthly and ad-hoc reporting and other publications, as appropriate.
12. Assist in financial planning and performance; including, the preparation of accurate budgets and forecasts, and annual operational and capital spend plans; effective Supervision of WIP, debt, cost reduction and contract growth, ensuring targets are met and exceeded.
13. Ensure that opportunities for the strategic development of the contract are developed, to deliver increased turnover and profitability through additional services and projects, and that contracts are re-won on re-tender.
14. Drive innovation and best practice, using knowledge, industry experience and advances in technology.
15. Support the Client to maintain their business’ continuity and physical security.
16. Support the development of workplace standards to create an agile and engaging working environment.
17. Responsible for driving engineers to complete work orders in real time to ensure time spent on problem assets are highlighted to the client.
18. Responsible for driving the tagging of work orders to assets to understand how many times problem assets are breaking down.
19. Responsible for driving engineers to condition assets every time they complete a ppm/reactive.
20. Responsible for driving engineers to raise corrective work orders off the back of ppms to understand how many parts are being replaced on problem assets.
21. Accountable for the correct issue and monitoring of ATW/Permit to work systems.
22. Responsible for ensuring the safe method of work practice (SMOWP) check sheet is completed for all sub-contractor activities.
23. Responsible for ensuring all PPE inspections are carried out and recorded.
24. Responsible for ensuring correct PPE is ordered as required and issue logs are maintained.
25. Responsible for ensuring all PPM / EW activities have site specific risk and method statements, communicated to site teams and recorded as read and understood.
26. Responsible for ensuring all site inductions are carried out and recorded for both sub-contractors and CBRE staff, inductions to be renewed yearly.
27. Responsible for ensuring tool lists are kept up-to-date and regular inspections carried out and recorded.
28. Responsible for ensuring vehicle inspections are carried out and recorded, all findings to be reported to manager.
29. Responsible for compiling small works quotations and ensuring webquote process adhered to and monitored.
30. Responsible for driving energy innovation and reduction.
31. Responsible for ensuring all provided hardware to team is functioning correctly and action any issues raised.
32. Responsible for ensuring plantrooms and workspaces are kept clean and tidy.
33. Responsible for day to day subcontractor management including checking RAMS, Competencies, permit issue and supervision of works.
34. Assist project team with project works on-site, liaison between project team manager and client stakeholders to ensure a One Team approach.
35. Act as a point of escalation for in and out-of-hours issues and incidents across your site. Responsible for ensuring COSHH processes and procedures are adhered to for site.
36. Responsible for compliance for contractual commitments, logbook maintenance, and all QHSE standards and procedures.
37. Responsible for ensuring Hazard spotting is undertaken by team and hazards recorded are of required standard.
38. Responsible for the Day-to-day supervision of all Integrated FM services in line with contractual SLAs and KPIs, including supervision of services delivered via the supply chain.

• Required: IOSH Managing Safely
• Required: 5 years supervisory experience
• Required: Experience in Supervising multiple staff
• Desirable: NEBOSH 3-day Award
• Desirable: C&G Legionella & (L8) Water Hygiene Role of the Responsible Person
• Desirable: ILM recognised people management qualification