Global Life Sciences Engineering Lead

Job Purpose

The Engineering Lead for the global life sciences account provides senior technical, strategic, and operational leadership across the EMEA portfolio, ensuring safe, compliant, resilient, and cost‑effective delivery of the account Technical Provision. The role is the senior technical authority and escalation point, accountable for technical strategy, leadership of Technical Lead SMEs, and CAPEX lifecycle investment planning, while also managing the federated model of Technical Leads and SMEs and ensuring regulatory compliance across a highly regulated pharmaceutical estate.

Key Tasks

Technical Leadership & Governance

• Act as the senior technical authority for the client account, setting and enforcing technical standards across all sites and regions.
• Provide functional leadership to existing Technical Lead SMEs ensuring clear role clarity, aligned priorities, and consistent application of engineering standards.
• Chair or sponsor technical governance forums, ensuring coordinated decision‑making across engineering disciplines, regions, and suppliers.
• Serve as final escalation for critical incidents, system failures, audit findings, and regulatory risks.
• Oversee Energy and Sustainability governance of the E&S provision, working with the assigned BSO to ensure delivery of agreed scope, reporting and visibility across stakeholders, and implementation of initiatives across operational teams.

People Leadership & Capability

• Provide formal leadership to senior technical resources (Technical Leads and SMEs) embedded within the account.
• Drive capability development, succession planning, and competency assurance across the technical community.
• Ensure consistent application of CBRE workforce development, competency verification, and technical training expectations – including TCCC and Competency Verification Programmes.

Operational Assurance & Compliance

• Ensure planning and communication of planned maintenance across all engineering systems in line with the client’s standards, statutory obligations, and CBRE policy.
• Lead responses to audits, inspections, and technical assurance reviews, ensuring timely closure of findings and sustainable corrective actions.

CAPEX Planning & Lifecycle Accountability

• Hold account‑level accountability for CAPEX planning, prioritisation, and governance, working with client stakeholders and CBRE leadership.
• Lead development of multi‑year CAPEX and lifecycle investment plans informed by asset condition, risk, obsolescence, and business criticality.
• Ensure CAPEX decisions are aligned to asset strategy, regulatory risk, operational resilience, and total cost of ownership.
• Sponsor technical input to business cases, investment proposals, and funding approvals, ensuring robust engineering justification and value management.

Financial & Commercial Oversight

• Support preparation of long‑term technical investment plans.
• Monitor engineering OPEX and CAPEX performance, identifying risks, trends, and optimisation opportunities.
• Provide technical leadership on supplier strategy, performance management, and commercial challenge where required.

Client & Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a trusted senior technical advisor to client stakeholders and the CBRE Account Leadership Team.
• Support productivity and effectiveness of technical teams through clear strategy, escalation management, and decision support.
• Build strong partnerships across CBRE Operations, QHSE, Energy, Projects, PMO, and Workplace Experience functions.

Scope & Complexity

• Multi‑country, EMEA‑wide client portfolio.
• Leadership of a federated technical model comprising Technical Directors, Technical Leads, SMEs, and specialist partners.

Success Measures (Role Outcomes)

• Consistent technical standards and risk management across all client sites.
• Clear leadership, alignment, and effectiveness of Technical Lead SMEs.
• Robust, defensible CAPEX planning aligned to asset risk and business priorities.
• Strong audit outcomes reducing technical risk exposure and improving asset resilience.
• Trusted advisor status with the client and CBRE senior leadership.

Person Specification

• Degree level or equivalent education.
• English proficiency – other European languages are a benefit.
• Proven technical team leadership.
• Proven capability working with teams for delivery of initiatives.
• Experience in client presentations.
• CAPEX planning experience.
• LCAM experience.
• Travel when required (across UK & EMEA).

Desirable

• CMMS capability and understanding.
• Experience with SMART FM.
• Experience with next‑generation maintenance innovation – e.g., predictive and reliability‑centered maintenance programmes.

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