Regional Technical Services Manager
- AB, Canada
- Calgary, AB, T2P 0L4, Canada
Full-time
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Job details
- Job type
- Full-time
- Experience
- Experience: 10+ years of progressive experience in technical services, engineering, or building operations within commercial real estate.
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Regional Technical Services Manager
Calgary, AB | Calgary Place
The Opportunity
The Technical Services lead provides technical expertise and ensures compliance across building operations integrity, environmental health and safety, regulatory requirements, risk management, and operational excellence. The role promotes proactive maintenance, innovative technologies, and data-driven performance management to enhance operational effectiveness and reliability. Partnering closely with Property Management, Sustainability, Construction Services, and Asset Management to develop a strategic roadmap of capital projects and improvements that address critical needs and maximize long-term asset value. This role ensures that all BGO properties in Alberta operate consistently at or above market standards as defined by the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) and Rental Housing Canada (RHC), and in accordance with national regulatory requirements.
This is an onsite position located in Calgary, AB.
What You Will Do
- Asset & CAPEX Management: Oversee building systems, lifecycle planning, capital projects, and value optimization.
- Strategic Leadership: Provide regional technical leadership across building operations, MEP systems, compliance, risk management, and asset performance, and leveraging technology to drive operational excellence, data-driven decision-making, and continuous improvement.
- Operational Excellence: Drive proactive, predictive, and technology-enabled maintenance strategies.
- Emergency Preparedness: Lead emergency response, fire safety, and business continuity programs.
- Compliance & Risk: Ensure regulatory, environmental, health & safety, and fire/life safety compliance.
- Digital Transformation: Leverage Visitt and smart-building technologies to improve maintenance and reliability.
- Communication & Engagement: Standardize best practices and drive regional alignment through effective stakeholder communication.
Who You Are
Key Qualifications
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- Education: Degree in Engineering, Building Science, Facilities Management, or a related discipline (or equivalent experience).
- Experience: 10+ years of progressive experience in technical services, engineering, or building operations within commercial real estate.
- Licences / Certifications Professional designation (P.Eng, PMP, CFM, or similar) considered an asset
- Strong knowledge of multi-residential, office, retail, and industrial building systems.
- Demonstrated experience in capital planning, regulatory compliance, and risk management.
- Experience with Microsoft Suite, Yardi, AI, Property Technology and Building systems
Other Skills and Behaviours
- Strategic Thinking: Integrates technical, financial, operational, and risk considerations to support long-term decisions.
- Problem Solving: Analyzes complex issues, identifies root causes, and develops practical solutions while providing calm, decisive technical leadership.
- Collaboration: Partners effectively across teams and functions to achieve shared goals.
- Communication & Influence: Clearly communicates technical information and drives decisions and adoption.
- Continuous Improvement: Promotes efficiency, reliability, innovation, and technology-enabled operations.
- Accountability: Takes ownership and delivers results while maintaining high standards for safety, compliance, and performance.
- Police Clearance– A criminal verification check is required for employment.
Who We Are
BGO is a global leader in real estate investment management, partnering with more than 750 institutional clients to invest in and manage high-quality real estate across office, industrial, residential, retail, and hospitality sectors. With a presence in 28 cities across 12 countries, BGO combines deep local expertise with global reach to unlock value in real estate markets worldwide. As part of SLC Management and Sun Life, BGO brings the strength, scale, and trusted expertise of one of the world's leading financial services organizations.
For more information, please visit www.bgo.com
Why Join Us
At BGO, you'll be part of a collaborative team that values your growth, supports your success, and empowers you to make a meaningful impact. We offer a competitive total rewards package, including comprehensive benefits and an annual discretionary bonus. You'll work in a supportive, team-oriented environment with access to ongoing learning, mentorship, and professional development opportunities to help you grow your career.
Thinking About Applying?
At BGO, we recognize that each employee’s unique experiences, perspectives, and viewpoints strengthen our ability to create and deliver the best value to our clients, partners and stakeholders/investors and therefore we strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientations and life experiences to apply.
BGO is committed to equitable hiring practices and we welcome the opportunity to discuss accommodation and ensure fairness and equity in our hiring process. If you require accommodation, please email us at accessibility@bgo.com and include: Job posting #, your name and your preferred method of contact.
We thank all applicants for their interest in employment with BGO, however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Application Deadline: we will be accepting applicants for this role until November 18, 2026
More about this job
Responsibilities
Lead regional technical services for Alberta properties, overseeing building systems, lifecycle and capital planning, compliance, risk management, emergency preparedness, and operational performance. Promote proactive maintenance, smart-building technology, consistent regional practices, and collaboration with property, sustainability, construction, and asset management teams.
Requirements
Requires a degree in engineering, building science, facilities management, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience, and at least 10 years of progressive experience in technical services, engineering, or commercial real estate building operations. Candidates should have knowledge of multiple property types and experience in capital planning, compliance, and risk management; a professional designation such as P.Eng, PMP, or CFM is an asset.
Skills
- Building Operations
- Capital Planning
- Capital Project Management
- MEP Systems
- Regulatory Compliance
- Risk Management
- Proactive and Predictive Maintenance
- Emergency Response
- Fire and Life Safety
- Business Continuity
- Smart-Building Technologies
- Data-Driven Decision-Making
- Stakeholder Communication
- Building Systems
- Strategic Leadership
- Continuous Improvement
Benefits
- Comprehensive Benefits
- Annual Discretionary Bonus
- Learning and Professional Development Opportunities
- Mentorship
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Management & Leadership
- Engineering
- Environmental & Sustainability
- Construction
Keywords
- Commercial Real Estate
- Building Operations
- Building Systems
- MEP Systems
- Asset Management
- Capital Planning
- CAPEX
- Lifecycle Planning
- Capital Projects
- Regulatory Compliance
- Risk Management
- Environmental Health and Safety
- Fire and Life Safety
- Emergency Preparedness
- Business Continuity
- Proactive Maintenance
- Predictive Maintenance
- Smart-Building Technologies
- Visitt
- Yardi
- Microsoft Suite
- Artificial Intelligence
- Property Technology
- BOMA
- Rental Housing Canada
- P.Eng
- PMP
- CFM
- Building Science