Senior Regional Operations Manager
The Senior Regional Manager – Facilities Management / Soft Services is a senior leadership role accountable for the delivery, stabilization, and growth of integrated soft services across a highly distributed, multi-country Defense Sector portfolio. This role establishes the region’s operating strategy and provides ownership of custodial and broader soft-service lines across large strategic facilities and smaller or limited-coverage locations, ensuring consistent service quality, contractual compliance, and client satisfaction during significant account expansion. Working with executive leadership, the position directs short- and long-term financial and mission-critical operational goals, implements processes that support varying business units, produces sustainable growth, and minimizes risk.
This senior-level appointment combines hands-on startup leadership with strategic account-level program management—mobilizing new sites, standing up operating platforms, and stabilizing performance while building the governance, financial discipline, client relationships, and growth pipeline needed for long-term portfolio expansion. The successful candidate operates with significant autonomy, represents the organization at senior client levels, and is positioned to assume broader account leadership as the portfolio matures.
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Primary Job Functions
· Own regional delivery of integrated soft services, including custodial/janitorial, grounds, waste and recycling, pest control, window and high-level cleaning, mailroom and logistics support, and other occupant-facing FM services. · Establish and enforce cleaning standards, frequencies, scopes of work, operating policies, practices, security measures, and quality expectations aligned with industry benchmarks, client specifications, and contractual requirements. · Coordinate with hard services, EHS, technical FM, internal stakeholders, and client representatives to deliver seamless integrated facilities management experience across all locations. · Oversee operations in regulated and security-sensitive environments, including controlled-area access, escorted work, secure material handling, and adherence to client, government, and internal compliance requirements. · Lead startup, transition, mobilization, go-live, hypercare, and stabilization activities for new facilities while maintaining performance across existing locations. · Build and execute site-readiness plans covering incumbent staffing, recruiting, onboarding, background screening, badging and access, equipment and technology procurement, chemical and consumable readiness, SDS/chemical conversion, secure storage, and day-one operating routines. · Align staffing, organizational design, material efficiency, equipment, technology, and facility requirements with the account business plan and long-term vision; direct post-go-live metrics, escalation routines, sign-off criteria, and baseline-condition documentation. · Drive labor planning, work loading, staffing optimization, and subcontractor/vendor coordination across varied facility types. · Manage regional P&L performance, budgets, labor models, cost-control initiatives, cost estimates, staffing requirements, and vendor performance; identify and implement processes and technologies that improve the use of resources, materials, and labor. · Implement standardized operating procedures, KPIs, SLAs, escalation pathways, quality-audit programs, and communication protocols; use CMMS, workforce management, and reporting platforms to provide data-driven performance reporting to executive leadership and clients. · Lead, coach, and develop site managers, supervisors, and regional teams; identify training needs, sustain training across all levels, and build bench strength and succession depth. · Serve as the senior client-facing regional leader, managing site, regional, and functional stakeholder relationships and representing the organization in governance meetings and business reviews. · Reinforce safety culture, near-miss and good-catch reporting, and frontline recognition across all locations. · Prepare the region for service-line and geographic expansion, including grounds, security coordination, logistics support, and minor facility services; partner with business development on pricing, solutioning, and bid-pipeline activity.
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Education, Experience and Certification |
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Working Conditions
· Work is performed across offices, client-site, and active facilities environments, including regulated and security-sensitive locations. · The role requires hands-on, in-the-field leadership during mobilization, transition, go-live, and stabilization periods. · Must be able to work effectively in high-visibility, mission-critical, and time-sensitive environments. |
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Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
· Advanced operations management, business planning, project management, regulatory compliance, business growth and expansion, and financial and cost control capabilities. · Strong financial acumen, including P&L ownership, budget development, labor modeling, cost estimating, and vendor performance management. · Working knowledge of soft-services quality systems, safety and chemical-management requirements, CMMS, workforce management, and reporting technology. · Executive presence and senior client-facing communication, with the ability to balance strategic account planning and tactical field execution. · Strong people-management, coaching, training, talent-development, succession-planning, and matrix-leadership capability. · High operational discipline, attention to detail, business and commercial acumen, and a growth-oriented mindset. · Calm, structured decision-making in high-pressure environments, with the capacity and ambition to assume broader account leadership over time. |
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Financial Responsibilities |
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Yes — Owns regional P&L performance, budgets, labor models, cost estimates, cost controls, staffing requirements, and vendor performance. |
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People Management |
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Yes — Leads, coaches, and develops site managers, supervisors, and regional teams across multiple locations. |
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Travel Requirements |
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Yes — Extensive travel across the region is required, particularly during transition, startup, and stabilization phases. |
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Disclaimer |
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CBRE Government Services is thrilled at the opportunity for you to apply to one of our roles. The base salary range for this position is $150,000- $180,000. This position may also be eligible for a wide range of competitive benefits that can include but not limited to: medical, well-being, financial planning and short-term incentives benefits.
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