About the Role:
Step into a high-impact leadership role at CBRE as the Assistant Chief Building Engineer in Bellevue, WA.
In this day-shift position supporting a premier Class A office property in Bellevue, you'll guide daily operations, shape preventative maintenance strategies, and lead a talented team to keep state-of-the-art facilities operating flawlessly. You'll have the opportunity to influence major decisions, champion innovation, and drive continuous improvement across a dynamic, multi-discipline environment.
If you're a hands-on technical expert who thrives on solving complex problems and coaching others, this role offers the perfect blend of challenge, autonomy, and career growth within CBRE.
What You'll Do:
- Manage shift operations, assign work orders, and provide training to coworkers and subcontractors
- Review monthly tenant service request summaries to pinpoint and correct recurrent operational problems
- Develop a preventative maintenance program for machinery and systems
- Inspect systems to ensure operation within normal parameters
- Maintain inventory of supplies and tools, ordering necessary materials to complete all tasks
- Schedule preventative maintenance and downtime to cut business interruption and inconvenience
- Perform repairs, emergency, and preventative maintenance, completing maintenance and repair records as required
- Respond timely to emergency situations, requesting extra help as needed
- Apply advanced knowledge to seek and develop new, better methods for accomplishing both individual
- and department objectives
- Showcase expertise in own job discipline and in-depth knowledge of other job disciplines within the organization function
- Coach others to develop in-depth knowledge and expertise in most or all areas within the function
- Lead by example and model behaviors that are consistent with CBRE RISE values
- Anticipate potential objections and persuade others, often at senior levels and of divergent interest, to adopt a different point of view
- Impact the achievement of customer, operational, project, or service objectives across multi-discipline teams
- Work is guided by functional policies which impact the design of procedures and policies
- Contribute to new products, processes, standards, and/or operational plans in support of achieving functional goals
- Communicate difficult and complex ideas with the ability to influence
What You'll Need:
- High School Diploma, GED, or trade school diploma with 5-8 years of job-related experience. In lieu of a diploma, a combination of experience and education will be considered. Valid Driver's License required.
- Prior shift manager or supervisory experience preferred
- Meet the physical requirements of this role including stooping, standing, walking, climbing stairs/ladders, and the ability to lift/carry heavy loads of 50 lbs. or more
- The innovative mentality to develop methods that go beyond existing solutions
- Ability to solve unique problems using standard and innovative solutions having a broad impact on the business
- Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Outlook, and experience working in a CMMS.
- Expert organizational skills with an advanced inquisitive mindset
- Highly sophisticated math skills. Ability to calculate somewhat complex figures such as percentages, fractions, and other financial-related calculation
CBRE carefully considers multiple factors to determine compensation, including a candidate's education, training, and experience. The minimum salary for the Assistant Chief Engineer position is $50 per hour and the maximum salary for the Assistant Chief Engineer position is $58 per hour. The compensation that is offered to a successful candidate will depend on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. This role will provide the following benefits: 401(K), Dental insurance, Health insurance, Life insurance, and Vision insurance.
