Job Title
Engineering ManagerJob Description Summary
Engineering Manager provides high-level leadership and direction to onsite multi-skilled teams and vendors to ensure the rigorous execution of data center operational standards. This role focuses on mentoring technical personnel, managing critical escalations, and fostering strong client relationships to ensure all performance targets and service level agreements are consistently surpassed.Job Description
About the Role:
- End‑to‑end operational accountability, consistently delivering SLA/KPI performance through structured governance and reporting
- Strong people and site leadership, building high‑performing operations and maintenance teams through effective hiring, development, and performance management
- Proactive resource, budget, and cost control, balancing workload, uptime, overtime, and contractual financial targets
- Robust operational risk and asset management, leading site reviews covering maintenance standards, lifecycle planning, Tier compliance, and single points of failure
- Disciplined maintenance delivery, ensuring planned and reactive works are executed via CMMS with strong asset and data governance
- Effective contractor and vendor oversight, ensuring quality, safety, compliance, and performance improvement through structured governance
- Integrated project and account management, coordinating client briefs, stakeholders, and scalable processes aligned with contractual requirements
About You:
- 7-10 years of relevant experience in critical engineering operations / project delivery
- At least 5 years experience in the operation of engineering services in Tier III or equivalent data centre or similar critical facility.
- Proven track record of similar roles
- Bachelor’s and advanced degree in Engineering management, construction management, civil engineering, mechanical or electrical engineering (or a related field).
- Achieved industry recognized professional qualification for Engineering, Data Centre Operations
- Proven track record of problem solving, critical thinking
- Proficiency in project / Operations management software (e.g., Project, Primavera, Procore), MCIM, Famis 360, BI dashboard tools and other relevant tools.
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;
Being part of a growing global company;
Career development and a promote from within culture;
An organisation 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
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, colour, 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 than just talking about it - we live it. If you want to live it too, join us.
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Skills Required
- 7-10 years of relevant experience in critical engineering operations / project delivery
- At least 5 years experience in the operation of engineering services in Tier III or equivalent data centre
- Bachelor's and advanced degree in Engineering management or related field
- Achieved industry recognized professional qualification for Engineering, Data Centre Operations
- Proficiency in project / Operations management software
Cushman & Wakefield Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cushman & Wakefield and has not been reviewed or approved by Cushman & Wakefield.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match is consistently referenced as part of the package. Feedback suggests this provides a solid baseline for long‑term savings across many U.S. roles.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off and company holidays are regularly highlighted and described as a meaningful part of the offering. Feedback suggests time‑off benefits add tangible value alongside base pay.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers, plus backup care and wellbeing resources, are described as available. These offerings indicate a supportive approach to family needs in many roles.
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What We Do
Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) is a leading global real estate services firm that delivers exceptional value for real estate occupiers and owners. Cushman & Wakefield is among the largest real estate services firms with approximately 53,000 employees in 400 offices and 60 countries. In 2019, the firm had revenue of $8.8 billion across core services of property, facilities and project management, leasing, capital markets, valuation and other services.
