
Cushman & Wakefield
A global commercial real‑estate firm delivering services from leasing to asset and facilities management.
EMEA Technical Operations Manager
Oversees EMEA facility technical ops, asset management, safety, compliance, and cost control.
Job Highlights
About the Role
The EMEA Technical Operations Manager provides regional leadership and technical oversight for facilities and engineering services across AMD’s EMEA portfolio. The role ensures safe, compliant, cost‑effective, and high‑quality delivery of technical services through strong asset management, vendor performance, financial control, and client engagement. Acting as a trusted technical advisor, the manager supports Facility Managers, drives continuous improvement, and ensures regulatory and contractual compliance across all sites. The manager maintains accurate asset registers, lifecycle models, and maintenance programs, ensures statutory and regulatory compliance, leads risk assessments and high‑risk work approvals, and manages hard‑services vendors throughout EMEA. They support budgeting, CAPEX planning, and act as the primary technical point of contact for clients, delivering data‑driven reporting and driving service innovation. Additionally, they mentor technical teams, support environmental and operational issues, and oversee safe operation of plant and critical spaces. • Maintain accurate EMEA asset registers, lifecycle models, and maintenance programs. • Ensure statutory, regulatory, and contractual compliance, including audits and corrective actions. • Provide technical leadership to Facility Managers with SOPs, ESOPs, MOPs, and JSAs. • Lead risk assessments, incident investigations, and approve high‑risk work activities. • Manage hard‑services vendors: performance reviews, audits, tenders, and competency assurance. • Verify vendor health & safety, insurance, training, certifications, and regulatory compliance. • Support budgeting, forecasts, monthly cost reviews, and cost‑control initiatives. • Develop and maintain a five‑year rolling CAPEX plan with lifecycle costing. • Serve as primary technical liaison for clients across EMEA, delivering data‑driven reports. • Drive continuous improvement, service innovation, and cost‑reduction projects. • Lead, mentor, and develop high‑performing technical teams and upskill Facilities Management staff. • Oversee environmental and operational issues, conduct site inspections, and ensure safe plant operation.
Key Responsibilities
- ▸asset management
- ▸regulatory compliance
- ▸risk assessment
- ▸vendor management
- ▸capex planning
- ▸technical reporting
What You Bring
Candidates require an engineering qualification in building services, mechanical, or electrical disciplines and at least five years in a technical management role. Proven experience managing large, multi‑site office portfolios across EMEA, strong knowledge of health & safety, risk management, statutory compliance, and asset lifecycle management, as well as vendor and financial control, is essential. The role demands client relationship skills, willingness to travel across EMEA, and flexibility in working hours.
Requirements
- ▸engineering qualification
- ▸technical management
- ▸portfolio management
- ▸health safety
- ▸risk management
- ▸asset lifecycle
Work Environment
Onsite