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Maintenance Assistant

Job ID

253300

Posted

19-Dec-2025

Service line

GWS Segment

Role type

Full-time

Areas of Interest

Facilities Management

Location(s)

San Diego - California - United States of America

**Global Workplace Solutions (GWS)—** Local is a hard services-led, tailored facility management solution. We self-perform hard services while partnering with best-in-class soft service providers to offer custom facility and project management solutions to our clients. We focus on empowering our team with a high level of downstream accountability, resulting in agile and efficient service delivery.

In addition to our core facility and project management capabilities, our platform offers direct access to our Best-in-Class services, including ESG, Security Consulting, Workplace Strategy, and Workplace Experience.

About the Role:

As a CBRE Maintenance Assistant, you will perform basic maintenance tasks. This includes vendor escorting, preventative maintenance, and repair duties. We’re looking for a dependable and hands-on Maintenance Assistant to support everyday facilities tasks and light maintenance at our commercial properties in San Diego. This role helps keep our spaces functional, and manufacturing ready—inside and out.

This job is part of the Maintenance function. They are responsible for providing world-class customer service to the clients and visitors of a designated building.

What You’ll Do:

+ Escort various vendors/third party contractors during visits to the property for work on equipment, engineering spaces, and shared areas.

+ Perform light repairs and upkeep across the facility, including:

+ Painting walls and floors in mechanical rooms

+ Touch-up painting in office spaces

+ Refinishing and painting outdoor picnic tables and site furnishings

+ Conduct regular walkthroughs to identify minor repair needs

+ Assist with general cleaning and tidying of facility-controlled areas

+ Support the Facilities team with seasonal projects and special tasks

+ Communicate any issues or supply needs to the Lead Technician

+ Perform physical tasks such as loading, unloading, and moving materials.

+ Organize inventory of storage rooms to ensure contents are stocked.

+ Respond to employee desk moves and equipment relocation.

+ Follow government and company regulations related to building operations and work safety.

+ Complete general labor work as assigned. This includes office furniture repairs, replacing ceiling and carpet tile, and ad hoc requests.

+ Complete Work Orders in the client’s CMMS.

+ Help maintenance staff, engineers, and company vendors with special projects as needed. Review work upon completion of a project to ensure all deliverables are achieved.

+ Answer common inquiries or complaints from clients, co-workers, and/or supervisor.

+ Use existing procedures to solve straightforward problems while having a limited opportunity to exercise discretion.

+ Impact through clearly defined duties, methods, and tasks are described in detail.

+ Deliver own output by following defined procedures and processes under close supervision and guidance.

What You’ll Need:

+ High School Diploma or GED with up to 2 years of job-related experience. In lieu of a diploma, a combination of experience and education will be considered. Certifications/licenses as may be required by local or state jurisdictions.

+ Meet the physical requirements of this role including stooping, standing, walking, climbing stairs/ladders, and the ability to lift/carry heavy loads of 50 lbs. or more.

+ Ability to follow basic work routines and standards in the application of work.

+ Communication skills to exchange straightforward information

+ Working knowledge of Microsoft Office products. Examples include Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.

+ Strong organizational skills with an inquisitive mindset.

+ Basic math skills. Ability to calculate simple figures such as percentages, discounts, and markups.

Why CBRE?

When you join CBRE, you become part of the global leader in commercial real estate services and investment that helps businesses and people thrive. We are dynamic problem solvers and forward-thinking professionals who create significant impact. Our collaborative culture is built on our shared values — respect, integrity, service, and excellence — and we value the diverse perspectives, backgrounds and skillsets of our people. At CBRE, you have the opportunity to realize your full potential.

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Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.

CBRE carefully considers multiple factors to determine compensation, including a candidate’s education, training, and experience. The minimum salary for this position is $45,000 annually and the maximum salary for the position is $50,000 annually. The compensation that is offered to a successful candidate will depend on the candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience.

**Equal Employment Opportunity:** CBRE has 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 GWS

CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) works with clients to make real estate a meaningful contributor to organizational productivity and performance. Our account management model is at the heart of our client-centric approach to delivering integrated real estate solutions. Each client is entrusted with a dedicated leader and is supported by regional and global resources, leveraging the industry's most robust platform. CBRE GWS delivers consistent, measurably superior outcomes for our clients at every stage of the lifecycle, and across industries and geographies.

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