Jobs at Cushman & Wakefield

Lead and supervise a finance team providing FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, and month-end accounting for client financials. Ensure compliance, improve workflows, manage team performance, onboard new scope, and use AI/data analytics to streamline processes for facilities-related projects.

Oversee construction and development projects from setup through completion, managing scope, cost, schedule, risk, contractors, vendors, procurement, contracts, and client relationships. Develop project charters, execution plans, master schedules, and cost analyses; lead client meetings and construction implementation. Support operational readiness, business development, best-practice development, and team mentoring while ensuring project objectives and quality standards are met.

Leads engineering and maintenance staff while overseeing commercial building systems, including HVAC, electrical, plumbing, fire/life safety, energy management, preventive maintenance, budgets, vendors, contractors, compliance, and emergency response. Develops maintenance procedures, training, documentation, and safety programs. The role includes approximately 50% operating engineer duties, potential shift work, and on-call responsibilities.

Leads strategic transaction management and execution for complex corporate real estate portfolios. Develops market optimization strategies, negotiates transactions, oversees brokerage and cross-functional teams, manages client relationships, and delivers financial analyses, business cases, reporting, and portfolio recommendations. Drives governance, process improvements, technology and AI enablement, and team development while ensuring consistent execution and measurable client outcomes.

Develops energy-saving, decarbonization, water, and emissions-reduction strategies for commercial and industrial buildings. Performs ASHRAE Level I and II energy audits, supports retro-commissioning, evaluates HVAC and building systems, calculates savings and ROI, prepares technical reports, and assists with utility incentives and ESG initiatives. The role involves client consultation, project management, technical presentations, business development, interdisciplinary collaboration, and travel up to 12 days per month.

Develops energy, water, carbon, and decarbonization strategies for commercial real estate clients. Leads energy audits, identifies efficiency and emissions-reduction measures, calculates savings and ROI, prepares cost estimates, supports retro-commissioning and utility incentives, and consults on HVAC, energy modeling, building automation, lighting, and sustainable design. Produces technical reports and presentations, manages client projects, supports business development, and helps advance ESG initiatives.

Manage workplace design projects from concept through construction, leading and mentoring design professionals, overseeing timelines, budgets, standards, resources, quality reviews, and client relationships. Develop workplace standards and provide expertise in space planning, interiors, FF&E, lighting, acoustics, ergonomics, and construction documentation. Coordinate architects, engineers, and vendors while ensuring designs meet client goals, safety requirements, applicable codes, and project budgets.

Leads interior design for complex commercial real estate projects, managing the full design process from concept through construction documentation. Produces space plans, presentations, drawings, and specifications; coordinates consultants and vendors; reviews deliverables; gathers stakeholder requirements; and supports project goals, budgets, and occupant outcomes.

Operate, maintain, and repair mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems for commercial properties. Perform preventive and corrective maintenance on HVAC, boilers, chillers, pumps, cooling towers, and controls; conduct safety and life-safety inspections; respond to emergencies; document work; and perform general property repairs, housekeeping, and energy management tasks.

Leads a regional project management service line, overseeing client relationships, financial management, design, planning, construction, vendors, risk, and project execution. Manages multidisciplinary staff, develops talent, ensures contractual and regulatory compliance, oversees capital improvement programs across multiple sites, and supports strategic direction. Requires strong project management, consulting, communication, financial reporting, budgeting, scheduling, and corporate real estate expertise.

Own enterprise-wide greenhouse gas accounting across Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions. Collect and validate activity data, perform emissions calculations, maintain emission factors and methodologies, ensure audit-ready documentation, support third-party assurance, and improve sustainability data systems. Analyze emissions trends to inform decarbonization strategies while partnering with controllership, procurement, real estate, and sustainability teams.

Maintain and repair mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and HVAC systems across assigned properties. Perform preventive and corrective maintenance, safety and life-safety inspections, respond to emergencies, document work, and support energy management and general property repairs. May work shifts, be on-call, and handle heavy physical tasks.

Lead transaction management strategy and execution for large, complex client portfolios. Drive market optimization, negotiations, financial analysis, and portfolio recommendations. Manage brokerage resources, direct reports, and cross-functional partners to execute complex transactions, governance, reporting, playbooks, and AI-enabled process improvements that deliver measurable client outcomes and occupancy cost savings.

Manage day-to-day transaction activity for a portfolio of corporate real estate clients, including negotiations, documentation, financial analysis, revenue tracking, process standardization, client presentations, team onboarding and oversight, and coordinating legal review and site visits to implement strategic real estate plans.

Provide transaction coordination and client service for corporate real estate portfolios: manage lease expirations, prepare negotiation summaries and reports, support documentation for leases/purchases/subleases, coordinate commissions and revenue entries, update TM systems (Fusion/CoStar/REFLEX), and perform portfolio reporting and administrative tasks.

Leads project controls for complex capital projects, coordinating cost estimating and schedule workstreams. Interfaces with clients, analysts, and schedulers; identifies cost and schedule risks; supports reporting and delivery oversight; and ensures compliance with project controls standards. Requires expertise in cost and schedule management software, strong communication skills, and experience across design, construction, and testing phases in a complex matrixed environment.

Drafts, negotiates, and manages high-volume commercial contracts, including technology, vendor, agency, real estate, and engagement agreements. The role assesses and mitigates contractual risks, ensures compliance with legal and internal policies, advises business clients, supports training, and improves contracting workflows, templates, and operational processes. It also collaborates with attorneys and promotes effective use of AI in legal operations.

Assists the Project Manager with planning and delivering commercial development projects across design, construction, FF&E, technology, move management, and occupancy. Prepares scopes, budgets, schedules, reports, meeting minutes, purchase orders, and project files. Coordinates architects, engineers, contractors, subcontractors, and vendors while maintaining client relationships and ensuring project goals, deliverables, costs, and timelines are managed effectively.

Manages facility management and tenant improvement programs for client accounts, property portfolios, or large facilities. Leads meetings, budgets, timelines, reporting, governance, data validation, invoices, change orders, and program enhancements. Coordinates with clients, account managers, property teams, and facility personnel while supervising analysts or coordinators as needed. Requires strong knowledge of corporate real estate, construction, leases, facilities operations, financial tracking, and workplace technology systems.

Leads complex, high-risk enterprise initiatives from planning through closeout, managing scope, schedules, budgets, risks, quality, vendors, and stakeholder expectations. Presents decision-ready recommendations to executives and steering committees, maintains financial forecasts, ensures governance compliance, and mentors project managers. Coordinates technical and business teams across data platforms, integrations, and enterprise applications while improving PMO standards and delivery maturity.