Engineering Supervisor

Selly Park, Birmingham
CBRE Local UK

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 center, 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 Midlands.

The successful candidate will be able to apply a risk-focused maintenance approach and operations of plant and systems in student accommodation buildings including central plantrooms and local plant near flats.

Role Summary:

• This role will be partially on the tools, carrying out maintenance and reactive breakdown repairs, roughly 50% of the time in your given trade, for the remaining part, you will manage and oversee the below
• Provide leadership and supervision of an in-house team of engineering staff for a defined contract.
• 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.
• Drive a culture of first-class customer service across your site, and ensure effective relationships are harnessed with key Client contacts.
• 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.
• Identify business risks and issues, adopting appropriate counter measures to minimise downtime and exposure for both the Company and Client.
• Work with other operational Leads (Company and Client) to ensure the collaborative development of the business, effective teamworking, and support to colleagues.
• Implement appropriate control measures, such as inspections, to ensure statutory, policy, and contractual commitments are met.
• Provide leadership and guidance, advice, coaching and direct support, where required to deliver best practice selection, training, assessment and recognition/reward.
• 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.
• Drive innovation and best practice, using knowledge, industry experience and advances in technology.

Site Specific Duties:

• Responsible for driving engineers to complete work orders in real time to ensure time spent on problem assets are highlighted to the client.
• Responsible for driving the tagging of work orders to assets to understand how many times problem assets are breaking down.
• Responsible for driving engineers to condition assets every time they complete a ppm/reactive.
• 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.
• Accountable for the correct issue and monitoring of ATW/Permit to work systems.
• Responsible for ensuring the safe method of work practice (SMOWP) check sheet is completed for all sub-contractor activities.
• Responsible for ensuring all PPM / EW activities have site specific risk and method statements, communicated to site teams and recorded as read and understood.
• Responsible for driving energy innovation and reduction.
• Responsible for ensuring plantrooms and workspaces are kept clean and tidy
• Responsible for day-to-day subcontractor management including checking RAMS, Competencies, permit issue and supervision of works.
• Assist project team with project works on-site, liaison between project team manager and client stakeholders to ensure a One Team approach.

Experience Required:

• Required: technical qualification in AC or combustion commercial heating
• Required: time served experience in given trade above, at least 5 years
• 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