Job Title
Facilities Engineer
Job Description Summary
Role Purpose
The Facilities Engineer will be responsible for the day-to-day technical operations and engineering management of an owned building, ensuring that all base-building engineering services are operated safely, reliably, efficiently and in accordance with statutory, client and company requirements.
The role will lead and manage a team of technicians and specialist contractors, ensuring effective delivery of planned preventative maintenance (PPM), reactive maintenance, asset lifecycle management, statutory compliance, energy efficiency and engineering projects.
The Facilities Engineer will take ownership of the building's engineering infrastructure and ensure that asset performance, maintenance standards and operational risks are proactively managed throughout the asset lifecycle.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
1. Technical Operations & Building Services
- Take overall technical responsibility for the building's base-building engineering services.
- Manage and supervise the onsite technical team, ensuring clear allocation of responsibilities, effective shift coverage and high service standards.
- Ensure reliable operation of critical and non-critical building systems, including:
- HVAC and mechanical systems
- Chillers, boilers and pumps
- Electrical systems, LV/MV systems and DRUP generators
- BMS and controls
- Fire and life-safety systems
- Lifts and vertical transportation
- Building management systems
- Water supply, drainage and plumbing
- Emergency power and UPS systems, where applicable
- Other building infrastructure and MEP systems.
- Monitor plant and equipment performance and identify potential failures before they impact building operations.
- Maintain strong relationships with landlords, managing agents, specialist contractors and service providers.
2. Preventative Maintenance (PM)
- Own and manage the building's PM programme, ensuring 100% completion of planned maintenance within agreed timelines, subject to approved exceptions.
- Review PM schedules and ensure maintenance frequencies are aligned with OEM /AMD Global recommendations, statutory requirements, risk assessments and asset criticality.
- Monitor PM quality rather than focusing solely on completion percentages.
- Ensure all maintenance activities are accurately recorded in the CMMS.
- Review recurring failures and identify opportunities for preventative or predictive maintenance.
- Challenge poor contractor performance and implement corrective actions where required.
3. Asset Management & End-of-Life (EOL) Planning
- Maintain an accurate and up-to-date asset register for all building engineering systems.
- Develop and maintain an Asset Lifecycle / End-of-Life (EOL) Plan.
- Identify ageing, obsolete, high-risk and underperforming assets.
- Assess asset condition, remaining useful life, reliability and operational risk.
- Develop business cases and CAPEX proposals for asset replacement and major refurbishment.
- Establish appropriate replacement priorities based on:
- Asset condition
- Criticality
- Failure history
- Availability of spare parts
- Energy performance
- Safety and compliance
- Total cost of ownership.
- Maintain a rolling 3–5 year asset replacement and capital planning forecast.
4. Compliance, Safety & Risk Management
- Ensure all engineering activities comply with applicable legislation, statutory requirements, company policies and client standards.
- Maintain all statutory inspection and certification programmes.
- Ensure permits, risk assessments and method statements are implemented appropriately.
- Support internal, client and regulatory audits.
- Identify engineering risks and maintain appropriate mitigation plans.
- Lead investigations into significant equipment failures, incidents and service interruptions.
- Ensure all technicians and contractors follow safe working practices.
5. Team Leadership & Development
- Lead, coach and develop the onsite technician team.
- Establish clear performance expectations and accountability.
- Plan technician training and competency development.
- Ensure technicians are appropriately trained and authorised for their assigned activities.
- Conduct regular toolbox talks, technical briefings and performance reviews.
- Build a culture of ownership, safety, accountability and continuous improvement.
- Ensure adequate technical coverage during normal operations, planned maintenance and emergencies.
6. Contractor & Vendor Management
- Manage specialist engineering contractors and service providers.
- Ensure contractors deliver services in accordance with contractual SLAs, KPIs and agreed scopes.
- Review contractor performance, PPM quality, documentation and compliance.
- Support procurement and contract management activities, including scope development and technical evaluation.
- Challenge unnecessary costs and identify opportunities for cost optimization without compromising safety or service quality.
7. Energy & Sustainability
- Monitor building energy consumption and identify opportunities for optimization.
- Work with the Facilities Manager and sustainability teams to identify energy-saving initiatives.
- Optimize HVAC, lighting, BMS and other energy-consuming systems.
- Support energy audits and implementation of energy conservation measures.
- Track savings and validate the performance of implemented initiatives.
8. Emergency & Business Continuity/CERT responsibilities
- Support the development and implementation of building emergency response procedures.
- Conduct periodic testing of emergency systems and business continuity arrangements.
- Be actively involve in the Company Emergency Response (CERT) team member as the Site Incident Controller(SIC) for XAP Building.
- Accountable for the managing the Risk Assessment and compliance approval of the service providers including OEM vendors at site.
- To conduct safety induction course for the new joiners.
- Responsible of the safe & healthy environmental related scope of work.
- Be a member of the Company Emergency Response Team (CERT) with the role of Site Incident Controller (SIC)
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- 100% PPM compliance within agreed service windows.
- Zero overdue statutory inspections/certifications.
- Reduction in repeat equipment failures and reactive maintenance.
- Improved asset reliability and availability.
- Accurate and current asset register.
- Effective implementation of asset EOL and lifecycle plans.
- Timely closure of engineering corrective actions.
- Contractor SLA/KPI compliance.
- Reduction in energy consumption and operational costs where applicable.
- Zero avoidable safety incidents arising from engineering activities.
- High technician competency, engagement and performance.
- Accurate and timely CMMS reporting.
INCO: “Cushman & Wakefield”
