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Sr. Maintenance Manager

CBRE

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Compensation
$184–192K/yr
Location
Desert Hot Springs, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Senior Maintenance Manager provides operational and client leadership for maintenance operations, overseeing performance, preventive maintenance, KPI compliance, and service delivery across a region. The role leads maintenance managers, develops reliability plans, manages vendor relationships and budgets, and promotes a safe, compliant work environment. It also partners with client leadership and Talent Acquisition to support staffing, performance development, and operational improvement.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Employee Leadership, requiredEmployee Coaching, requiredMaintenance Equipment Upkeep, requiredCommunication, requiredPresentation, requiredProblem Solving, requiredAnalytical Skills, requiredFinancial Reporting, requiredForecasting, requiredBudgeting, requiredMicrosoft Office Suite, requiredStrategic Solutions, requiredDrawing Interpretation, requiredBlueprint Interpretation, requiredSchematics Interpretation, requiredMaintenance Repair, requiredPredictive Maintenance, requiredThermography, requiredVibration Analysis, requiredAirborne Ultrasound, requiredPreventive Maintenance, requiredElectrical Equipment Repair, requiredMechanical Equipment Repair, requiredLifting 50 Pounds, requiredStooping, requiredStanding, requiredWalking, requiredClimbing Stairs and Ladders, required

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Technical Field or 2 Years on Client Account, required7+ Years Leading Employee Performance, required4+ Years Maintenance Equipment Experience, requiredSupervising Hourly and Salaried Employees, requiredAdvanced Financial Knowledge, requiredExpert Analytical and Quantitative Skills, requiredMaterials and Methods Knowledge, requiredTravel Up to 25%, required

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave

Full job description

CBRE is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity

At CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) , safety is our top priority. We foster a safety-first culture where employees are empowered to perform at their best and return home safely every day. We’re looking for a skilled and forward-thinking Senior Maintenance Manager (SMM) to join our growing team as we work to service one of the world’s largest online retailers.

**Read on to learn more!  **

About the Role

In this role, the SMM builds trusted relationships with client leadership and ensures maintenance operations consistently align with service level agreements and business objectives. The SMM plays a critical role in promoting a safe, compliant, and performance-driven work environment. This role provides operational and client leadership, overseeing maintenance performance, preventive maintenance execution, and KPI compliance while partnering closely with client leadership to ensure consistent service delivery, rapid resolution, and operational excellence across the region.

What ** You’ll ** Do

  • Maintain a safety-first culture in which CBRE employees return home in the same condition in which they reported to work.

  • Provide leadership to a team of Maintenance and Area Maintenance Managers.

  • Develop and implement reliability plans that support increasing the uptime of the facility.

  • Ensure compliance with standard process and procedures; trains, commissions equipment, collects, measures, and analyzes key performance indicators to improve processes and enhance customer experience.

  • Lead vendor relationships to ensure sites are receiving world class service.

  • Provide monitoring, auditing, and implementation of maintenance execution, and institutes and audits training drills across the network.

  • Maintain accountability for budgets, capital planning and contract documents including RFPs, change order controls, purchase orders, and invoicing.

  • Partners with Talent Acquisition to recruit, interview, and hire bar raising talent for site leadership roles.

  • Lead/Support the performance of employees through mentoring and skill development to improve work performance and develop employee potential.

  • Participate in corporate-sponsored programs & activities as required, including incident investigations, interviews, auditing, and assessment, etc.

  • Monitor appropriate staffing levels and reports on utilization and deployment of human resources.

  • Cultivate positive working relationships with our Client and Operations Maintenance team members.

What ** You’ll ** Need

  • Bachelor's (BA/BS) degree in a technical field (Industrial, Electrical, Mechanical, Civil) or 2 years on Client account required.

  • 7+ years’ experience leading and coaching employee performance in a manufacturing or maintenance environment. Must include experience in supervising hourly and salaried employees.

  • 4+ years' experience working directly with the maintenance and upkeep of manufacturing equipment.

  • Excellent communication, presentation, problem solving, and analytical skills.

  • Advanced knowledge of financial terms and principles, as well as financial reporting, forecasting and budgeting

  • Proficient Microsoft Office Suite experience (Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.)

  • Expert level analytical and quantitative skills with experience in developing strategic solutions for a growing matrix-based multi-industry sales environment.

  • Ability to read and interpret drawings, blueprints, and/or schematics.

  • Knowledge of materials, methods, and tools used to perform maintenance and repair of manufacturing equipment.

  • Working knowledge of predictive maintenance technologies, including thermography, vibration analysis, and airborne ultrasound.

  • Proven knowledge of how to conduct repairs and preventive/predictive maintenance on electrical and mechanical equipment.

  • Ability to travel up to 25% required.

  • Ability to move up to 50lbs and physical requirements including stooping, standing, walking, and climbing stairs / ladders with or without reasonable accommodation.

CBRE Employee Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision

  • Disability benefit program

  • 401k company matching

  • Paid time off and holidays

  • Company paid life insurance

  • Pet insurance

  • Paid parental leave

Why CBRE?

We invest in our employees’ development. The core of our strategy is the view that development happens through three key activities: on-the-job learning, coaching, and formal training. We provide employees with resources that support them in developing skills to enhance performance in their current role as well as for future roles.

We offer competitive pay, a robust benefits package, wellness programs, and a workplace environment that embraces diversity. Come join our global network of professionals supporting client operations across CBRE. Looking for growth and career advancement? Upon completing six months of successful service, associates may explore career advancement opportunities within the organization!

CBRE carefully considers multiple factors to determine compensation, including a candidate’s education, training, and experience. The minimum salary for the Sr. Maintenance Manager position is $184,308.80 annually [or $88.61 per hour] and the maximum salary for the Sr. Maintenance Manager position is $192,483.20 annually [or $92.54 per hour]. The compensation that is offered to a successful candidate will depend on the candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience.

Equal Employment Opportunity: CBRE is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity. We have a long-standing commitment to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, veteran status, political belief, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Candidate Accommodations: CBRE values the differences of all current and prospective employees and recognizes how every employee contributes to our company’s success. CBRE provides reasonable accommodations in job application procedures for individuals with disabilities. If you require assistance due to a disability in the application or recruitment process, please submit a request via email at [email protected] or via telephone at +1 866 225 3099 (U.S.) and +1 866 388 4346 (Canada).

CBRE, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer (Women/Minorities/Persons with Disabilities/US Veterans)

How this job compares

Set against the 1,053 open Maintenance Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$184–192K/yr
  • California median$102–127K/yr56 salary ranges
  • US median$98–126K/yr526 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $188K, is 66% above the California median midpoint ($114K) — in the top quarter of Maintenance Manager salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 66 open Maintenance Manager jobs in California and 1,053 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 7 years of experience — more than three in four Maintenance Manager postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 812 postings).
Education
155 of the 1,053 open Maintenance Manager jobs (15%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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