Job ID: 265297
Posted: 12-Mar-2026
Service line: GWS Segment
Areas of Interest
* Data Centers
* Engineering/Maintenance
* Facilities Management
Location(s)
* Sydney - New South Wales - Australia
About Us – CBRE Data Center Solutions
* CBRE Data Center Solutions (DCS) is a global leader in delivering integrated real estate, facilities, and technology solutions across the entire data centre lifecycle.
* Our team brings deep expertise across all DCS service lines, combining capital markets insight with technical excellence to unlock value for data centre owners, occupiers, and investors worldwide.
About The Role
As a CBRE Data Center Manager, you will manage the team responsible for providing preventative maintenance and repair services for a client facility or specialized portions of a mixed use facility.
This job is part of the Critical and Technical Services job function. They are responsible for technical maintenance services in critical client environments.
What You'll Do
* Provision of leadership and guidance, advice, coaching and direct support, where required to deliver best practice selection, training, assessment, recognition/reward and appraisal systems.
* 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.
* Create a learning environment on the site by providing the appropriate training and development planning for each member of CBRE staff, ensuring basic training needs are delivered, employees are fully competent to undertake their roles, and can reach their full future potential.
* Talent manage staff to ensure an appropriate training plan and career progression is identified.
* Ensure that across the services we provide for CBRE's Client on‐site (CE and FM) effective and efficient systems are in place to plan the work ahead, manage the work daily on the ground, communicate the issues around the work to the key stakeholders and measure our performance at completing work on time and the performance of our staff.
* Effectively lead management related activities including regular management meetings; development of operational procedures; fostering of good relationships with the Client providing services of the highest standards.
* Be overall responsible for the day‐to‐day management of the Data Centre Critical Environment Operations team within the specified sites.
* Manage annual contract budgets and accounts, producing site‐related financial, activity and other statistical information and reports as requested, and provide input into regular management reports and budget submissions and reviews.
* Be the point of contact during significant events or multi‐discipline technical escalations occurring within the specified sites.
* As necessary, participate in any business continuity plans the team may be involved in.
* Ensure data centre operations and CBRE business policies and processes are complied with at your sites, effectively communicated, implemented and adhered to within the contract.
* Ensure provision of healthy and safe working conditions and that both Client and CBRE health and safety policies and processes are effectively implemented across both CBRE and subcontractors' activities and are regularly reviewed.
* Ensure optimum staffing structures operate across contracts efficiently and support peaks and troughs in workload, and disaster recovery.
* Ensure post holders are fully competent, and that effective succession planning arrangements are in place, monitoring staff retention rates and ensuring staff training & development plans are produced and implemented.
* Ensure all absences are fully covered by suitably trained and experienced staff to ensure full 24/7 coverage.
* Ensure appropriate control systems are in place to meet statutory, policy and contractual commitments.
* Ensure customer focus within all areas of operational activities, and maintain effective relationships with key Client contacts, ensuring contractually agreed SLAs and KPIs within the Scope of Works (SOW) are met and necessary record retention demonstrates adherence.
* Plan and schedule all maintenance subcontractors' works and repairs, ensuring all accounts and documentation associated with these subcontractors are current and up to date on a monthly basis.
* Ensure all subcontractors deliver a quality and competent service and that all contractual obligations are met.
* Reach out to and liaise with global peers to ensure consistency across the accounts and compliance with Client's policy standards and best practice.
* Manage and deliver repairs and minor project works, as required, within the data centre.
* Promote and maintain the core values of CBRE.
* Ensure the professional image of CBRE is presented on site at all times.
* Manage other tasks as directed by Client.
What You'll Need
* Managerial experience as Facility Manager or Contract Manager within a critical environment.
* Must understand all the associated safety code related requirements relative to providing the service, including experience with Health & Safety Risk Assessments and Control Measures.
* Experience maintaining critical & temperature‐controlled environments.
* Detailed understanding and experience of the electrical and mechanical systems used in a data centre environment, including feeders, transformers, generators, fuel systems, switchgear, UPS systems, battery banks, ATS/STS units, PDU/PMM units, air handling units, chilled water systems, fire alarm systems and fire suppression systems (pre‐action sprinklers).
* Prior experience managing large‐scale outsourced contracts (values in excess of $5 million annually).
* Prior operations management experience including team management, work scheduling and performance reviews.
* Prior exposure to maintenance scheduling and subcontractor management and supervision.
* Strong understanding of ticketing or workflow management systems and tools.
* Experience managing escalation and emergency issues.
* Experience in vendor management, ability to manage and monitor progress to ensure objectives are achieved for outsourced support and projects.
* Familiarity with ISO/FISMA audit processes and documentation.
* Practical experience must include recruitment and line‐management/supervisory experience.
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