Critical Facility Manager
CBRE GWS Sweden AB · Borlänge · Tills vidare · Deadline 2026-11-13
CBRE GWS Sweden AB is hiring a **Critical Facility Manager** to lead technical maintenance services for an established Sweden-based data center operator. Working **on-site at the client location**, the manager oversees preventative maintenance, repairs, configuration management, and facility infrastructure installations within agreed SLA and MSA standards. Key responsibilities include daily team coordination, scheduling, task delegation, hiring, performance reviews, and staff coaching. The position also entails managing the client relationship, preparing method statements and risk assessments, verifying data hall routines and equipment deployments, and resolving both daily and moderately complex operational issues. Candidates are ideally expected to have a **bachelor's degree with 3–5 years of relevant experience**, though an equivalent combination of education and experience is accepted. Prior experience in staffing, team development, performance evaluation, and retention is preferred. Applicants must possess strong leadership and organizational abilities, solid troubleshooting skills, and an in-depth working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications such as Word, Excel, and Outlook.
About the Role: As a CBRE Critical Facility Manager, you will manage the team responsible for providing preventative maintenance and repair services to an established Sweden based data center operator at the client location. 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:
- Provide formal supervision to employees. Monitor the training and development of staff. Conduct performance evaluations and coaching. Oversee the recruiting and hiring of new employees.
- Coordinate and manage the team's daily activities. Establish work schedules, assign tasks, and cross-train staff. Set and track staff and department deadlines. Mentor and coach as needed.
- Manage the relationship with the client while working with other stakeholders to meet all MSA requirements.
- Responsible for ensuring the completion of configuration management, work orders, preventative maintenance, and repairs within the agreed SLA timeframe.
- Resolve unforeseen circumstances that occur and inform the client or Sr. management when needed.
- Verify facility infrastructure equipment installations are within the agreed SLA timeframe.
- Check daily routine cleanup of the data halls and review findings.
- Confirm all deployments are installed to applicable internal, manufacturer, and industry standards.
- Ensure that all records are updated following any changes made. Ensure that documentation is also kept up to date for all applicable processes.
- Prepare Method Statements and Risk Assessments and present to Sr. management.
- Lead by example and model behaviors that are consistent with CBRE RISE values. Influence parties of shared interests to reach an agreement.
- Apply knowledge of own discipline and how own discipline integrates with others to achieve team and departmental objectives.
- Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve day-to-day and moderately complex issues which may or may not be evident in existing systems and processes.
What You'll Need:
- Bachelor's Degree preferred with 3- 5 years of relevant experience. In lieu of a degree, a combination of experience and education will be considered.
- Experience in the areas of staffing, selection, training, development, coaching, mentoring, measuring, appraising, and rewarding performance and retention preferred.
- Ability to guide the exchange of sensitive, complicated, and difficult information, convey performance expectations and handle problems.
- Leadership skills to motivate team impact on quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of the job discipline and department.
- Indepth knowledge of Microsoft Office products. Examples include Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.
- Extensive organizational skills with a strong inquisitive mindset.
Why Join CBRE?
- Be part of a high-performing team in a critical environment
- Work with advanced data center infrastructure
- Be part of a collaborative, supportive, and high-performance culture
- Collaborative and safety-focused workplace