Regional Lead Facilities Engineer (MENA) Karachi

About the Role:

CBRE GWS is a leading global provider of integrated facilities and corporate real estate management. We are recruiting a Regional Lead Facilities Engineer (Middle East and & North Africa) to join the team.

The successful candidate will be responsible for providing technical oversight and operational support to the Regional Engineering Manager and Technical Manager in the delivery of critical engineering services to the Citi regional satellite data centers and Tech rooms.

This position will act as technical interface between client engineering, client critical infrastructure projects and CBRE engineering teams for complex activities and will ensure best in class standard of engineering delivery to the client across critical assets and operations.

The role will require completion of specified planned critical and statutory works which are deemed to require technical manager support.

The role will be required to support abnormal operating conditions in critical space and ensure mitigation measures are identified and actioned to avoid any impact on client business operations.
The role requires a strong regional technical and statutory competence and drive to comply with all Health and Safety policies and standards.

The Position will also provide subject matter expertise and engineering lead support to for the delivery and operation of critical data centers plus other critical facilities regionally.

This role is a central resource for Critical Systems Engineering and Critical Facilities Management:

What You will Do:

Critical Facilities Operations:

• Manage overall service delivery in Strategic and Satellite data canters and other Critical Facilities, provide support in the management of other critical systems located in facilities throughout the region.
• Participate in the development of and regionally maintain corporate standards for maintenance of critical equipment and operation of facilities
• Maintain an inventory of critical components for use in sharing best practices, expediting repairs through leveraged parts positioning
• Conduct regular reviews of existing operations to ensure maintenance and operating standards and environments are adequate for each facility
• Identify common failure scenarios based upon installed base of similar components and configurations of equipment, focused to pre-empt outages with similar precedents across Citi and industry
• Review all new capital and renovation projects within the region with respect to operational requirements
• Coordinate operations of Critical Facilities and systems within the region with FM and Sustainability teams to identify opportunities and incorporate best practices
• Assist in the development of an inventory of critical components for use in sharing best practices; expedite repairs through leveraged parts positioning
• Conduct regular reviews of existing operations to ensure maintenance, operating standards, and environments are adequate for each facility.
• Identify common failure scenarios based upon an installed base of similar components and configurations of equipment, focused to pre-empt outages with similar precedents across region and the industry.

Change Management

• Oversee use of change control procedure for critical systems invasive maintenance and changes to ensure proper business level and CRS - CTI coordination is met, coordinate with other non-facilities changes and events in critical environments
• Review change management policy utilization across the regional facilities management teams and ensure strict adherence to policy
• Manage regional escalation and approval method for emergency changes and events
• Act as the region's top-level CBRE CRS approver class in existing change management applications
• Review change management schedules across facilities to ensure that production/cob paired facilities do not have coinciding work schedules
• Work with the global team to develop metrics on maintenance durations and outages to review comparable operations and ensure windows are adequately scheduled.
• Act as advocate on behalf of regional site managers in scheduling required maintenance and repairs.
• Assist in the ongoing development of regional change control procedure for critical systems invasive maintenance and changes to ensure proper business level and Citi Technology Infrastructure (CTI) coordination is met.
• Act as an advocate on behalf of site managers in scheduling required maintenance and repairs.

Strategy and Planning

• Act as CBRE - CRS owner for the planning, development, and execution of critical facilities strategies.
• Maintain as-built documentation and load conditions up to date for critical systems based upon operations inventory and data
• Develop critical sites space, power, and cooling capacity plan and strategy in coordination with MEA and regional TI teams.
• Identify future risks and shortages in capacity in time to develop coordinated plans for hardware placement and potential expansion
• Coordinate with Citi Critical Facilities team & GDCS team to identify and measure consolidation opportunities
• Act as advocate for hardware consolidation, providing proper metrics to facilitate the business case in terms of facility capital expenditure avoidance and other energy/operational savings
• Identify need and initiate critical systems capital projects where required due to space/power constraints or the condition of existing equipment and environments.
• Manage right-sizing of infrastructure and right placement of facilities/hardware to ensure just-in-time capacity is available without adding risk of delays to business/CTI projects
• Attend TI and business hardware planning meetings to ensure CRS preparedness for upcoming projects
• Maintain industry awareness of future hardware trends and their potential impact on facilities
• Identify future risks and shortages in capacity in time to develop coordinated plans for hardware placement and potential expansion.

Outage Reporting / Incident Response

• Take responsibility for CRS incident escalation and coordinate all cross-business/function communications regionally
• Participate in technical response team to provide 24/7 remote support of all complex situations and outages
• Manage CBRE - CRS executive level communication with respect to incidents and events for the region
• Develop and manage the regional process for preliminary, ongoing, and final incident reports, postmortems, CAP plans, and audit grade documentation
• Identify root cause and share failure analysis across teams to ensure similar conditions are proactively addressed
• Participate/lead technical response team to provide 24/7 remote support of all complex situations and outages.
• Travel to outage location where necessary to provide post-mortem technical analysis and support of the corrective action plan development.
• Coordinate with regional teams on executive-level, business and ARR related communications with respect to outages and incidents.
• Review and provide assistance in developing preliminary, ongoing, and final incident reports, postmortems, CAP plans, and audit grade documentation.
• Identify root cause and share failure analysis across teams to ensure similar conditions are proactively addressed.

Governance (Audit and Risk Control)

• Cross-reference inventory of equipment against manufacturers' notices and industry alerts, and internal incidents for at-risk hardware and systems architecture
• Take ownership stake for the open critical systems environments audit issues, resolve through coordination with regional staff and critical systems operations, incident, and D&C teams.
• Utilize CBRE global policies and documentation in responding to internal and external audits of critical systems environments, participate in the audit process
• Review business and TI infrastructure risk assessments to ensure proper facilities installations and operating standards are in place to meet requirements
• Review existing policies, standards, and procedures for D&C, operations, change management, and incident response to ensure effectiveness and adequacy
• Identify risks associated with inventory of equipment against manufacturers' notices and industry alerts, and internal incidents for at-risk hardware and systems architecture
• Take ownership stake for all open critical systems environments audit issues, resolve through coordination with regional staff and critical systems operations, incident, and D&C teams.
• Assist in the development of policies and documentation to be used in responding to internal and external audits of critical systems environments.
• Provide reviews of business and TI infrastructure risk assessments to ensure proper facilities installations and operating standards are in place to meet Citi requirements
• Review existing policies, standards, and procedures for operations, change management, and incident response to ensure effectiveness and adequacy
• Participate and/or coordinate desktop and site (where required) pre-audits for planned external audits. Act as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) in matters related to the existing site(s) technical engineering infrastructure providing data for CS and the Project Design Teams in all matters relating to existing asset/system connectivity, location, designed and installed capacity, operational restrictions, as fitted data.
  

What You'll Need

Education

• A minimum of 5 years of relevant, diverse professional experience managing engineering and operational management of mission critical facilities within a financial services or large corporate environment.
• Preferably Electrical engineer with experience of both electrical and mechanical systems, A degree or equivalent in Electrical, Mechanical Building Services or associated engineering discipline is must.
• Clear technical understanding of Critical Facilities operations and excellence.
• Experience in management of internal and external technical resources.
• Significant experience in identifying facility requirements, opportunities, and trends in emerging technology.
  

Skills & Competencies

• Excellent communications, advanced written and verbal skills, with an emphasis on the ability to relate to peers and senior management in a professional manner.
• Strong interpersonal skills: an ambitious, enthusiastic, conscientious, and confident professional with all-around best-in-class leadership and management skills, with an ability to negotiate, influence, and motivate.
• A reputation for excellence in this field coupled with a down-to earth pragmatism and collaborative style to which colleagues and customers respond well.
• Time management and prioritization, planning and organizing, with strategic agility.
• Highly customer-focused, with exceptional Customer Relationship Management skills.
• Excellent training and presentation skills.
  

Knowledge

• Knowledge and awareness of the facilities management industry, critical environments and core life safety infrastructure
• Data Centre operational experience
  

Experience

• Practical experience in working with supply partners to deliver a seamless, integrated service
• Delivery exceptional customer experience and the possess the ability to communicate effectively at all levels
  

Aptitude

• Reliable and conscientious
• Able to work on their own initiative.
• Good customer liaison skills
• Have a can-do attitude and flexible approach to meet work commitments
• Ability to work within a tam environment whilst maintaining leadership for safe operating practice and technical oversight
• Pro-active in achieving the highest standard of operation
• Well-presented and approachable manner
  

Circumstances

• The individual must be willing to undertake EMEA travel as the role/business requires
  

Core Competencies

• Reacting to unplanned events in the critical space and change in priorities
• Drive control and quality control
• Safe system and work control system closeout
• Demonstrate a good understanding and be technically competent in all building services, in particular - UPS's, transfer switches, PLC systems, water treatment, refrigeration systems and HV/LV electrical infrastructure
  

Why CBRE

When you join CBRE, you become part of the global leader in commercial real estate services and investment that helps businesses and people thrive. We are dynamic problem solvers and forward-thinking professionals who create significant impact. Our collaborative culture is built on our shared values - respect, integrity, service and excellence - and we value the diverse perspectives, backgrounds and skillsets of our people. At CBRE, you have the opportunity to chart your own course and realize your potential. We welcome all applicants.

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