Director

Job Title

Director

Job Description Summary

The Director of Facility Operations will oversee the strategic management and daily operations of the facility, ensuring a safe, efficient, and well-maintained environment.

Job Description

About the Role

1. Provide leadership for the engineering team in the local market; setting up a local engineering leadership team from property-level engineers to assist with implementation of the overall national engineering platform.
2. Coordinate and plan at least quarterly engineering meetings in the local market, providing training materials/topics necessary to ensure industry and National Engineering process requirements compliance.
3. Assist with development, implementation, and monitoring of technical programs, and policies and procedures as required by both National Operations and Engineering.
4. Work with Property Managers and Chief Engineers to help implement and coordinate requirements such as safety, quality assurance, sustainability, energy management, Energy Star, C&W engineering disciplines, and combined energy and water tracking tools as centrally located under Asset Services/GOS/Engineering on C&W Connect.
5. Assist in the development of property/system specific technical and administrative training of property on-site engineering personnel.
6. Work with building engineers and operations staff to establish and implement preventative maintenance programs in order to reduce equipment downtime, maintain property system integrity, maximize efficiency and minimize operating costs while protecting the properties' assets.
7. Provide effective and prompt responses to requests from managers, tenants, and clients.
8. Establish and maintain a network of consultants/pre-qualified service providers to provide assistance and expertise to the field in matters beyond the expertise of operations staff (i.e. MEP design Engineer of record, Environmental, Structural, and Architectural).
9. Assist in scope definition, contract negotiations, and bid reviews for service and capital replacement projects.
10. Provide direction and consultation to the operating staff for HVAC, MEP systems, Fire & Life Safety systems, Automation, Security, and OSHA compliance.
11. Ensure compliance with the web-based training platform.
12. Assist with responses to RFPs and RFIs, participate in new business presentations, account transitions, and site assessments.
13. Provide leadership and direction for the implementation of other corporate initiatives.
14. Conduct physical property, mechanical, electrical, and system assessments as needed or requested.
15. Conduct limited site inspections in accordance with the guidelines presented in the national Engineering platform.
16. Recruitment activities in the local market to identify candidates and top talent. Maintain a database of qualified candidates for possible opportunities.

Why join Cushman & Wakefield?

As one of the leading global real estate services firms transforming the way people work, shop, and live, working at Cushman & Wakefield means you will benefit from:

1. Being part of a growing global company;
2. Career development and a promote from within culture;
3. An organization committed to Diversity and Inclusion.

We're committed to providing work-life balance for our people in an inclusive, rewarding environment.

We achieve this by providing a flexible and agile work environment by focusing on technology and autonomy to help our people achieve their career ambitions. We focus on career progression and foster a promotion from within culture, leveraging global opportunities to ensure we retain our top talent. We encourage continuous learning and development opportunities to develop personal, professional, and technical capabilities, and we reward with a comprehensive employee benefits program.

We have a vision of the future, where people simply belong.

That's why we support and celebrate inclusive causes, not just on days of recognition throughout the year, but every day. We embrace diversity across race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, or persons with disabilities or protected veteran status.

We ensure DEI is part of our DNA as a global community - it means we go way beyond just talking about it - we live it. If you want to live it too, join us.

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