Regional Energy & Maintenance Manager

Institutional Mixed-Use Portfolio | Downtown Toronto

Flagship Luxury Residential & Hospitality Portfolio

Role Overview

The Regional Energy & Maintenance Manager (REMM) provides senior technical and operational leadership across an institutional-quality mixed-use portfolio, anchored by one of Downtown Toronto’s most prominent luxury residential and hospitality communities. This role is accountable for asset reliability, building systems performance, maintenance execution, and maintenance-driven capital delivery. The REMM serves as the regional technical authority and escalation point for critical building systems, life-safety risk, and operational standards, ensuring long-term asset integrity, resident experience, and value preservation.

Responsibilities

• Regional oversight of maintenance operations for luxury residential, amenity, commercial, and assets.
• Ensure reliability, uptime, and performance of HVAC, electrical, plumbing, life safety, elevators, access control, parking, and envelope systems.
• Ownership of preventive maintenance strategy, CMMS governance, and data integrity.
• Senior escalation point for complex failures, after‑hours emergencies, and life‑safety incidents.
• Operational ownership and optimization of Building Management Systems (BMS) and a Computerized Maintenance Management System.
• Leadership of maintenance-driven capital projects and system renewals, including Life Cycle Projects.

Implementations

• Vendor, contract, and service‑level agreement (SLA) management.
• Budget ownership, cost control, and lifecycle planning.
• Regulatory compliance, safety leadership, and risk mitigation.
• Leadership, development, and performance management of regional maintenance teams.
• Oversight of enterprise BMS platforms (e.g., Siemens, Honeywell, Schneider, Delta).
• Approval of control sequences, setpoints, schedules, and alarm thresholds.
• Monitoring of system trends and alarms to proactively identify inefficiencies and failure risk.
• Coordination of BMS contractors for programming changes, upgrades, and commissioning.
• Use of BMS and metering data to support energy optimization and capital planning.
• Enforcement of cybersecurity protocols and access controls.
• Planning and execution of equipment replacements, system upgrades, and amenity renewals.
• Review of technical designs, scopes of work, commissioning plans, and project close‑out documentation.
• Contractor performance management, change control, and risk mitigation.
• Establishment and enforcement of vendor SLAs, quality standards, and safety compliance.

Energy, Safety & Compliance

• Support portfolio-wide energy efficiency and sustainability initiatives.
• Bill management including energy logging, tracking, monitoring, analysis, and reporting.
• Perform energy audits and draft energy audit reports.
• Review maintenance and operating schedules to identify energy‑saving opportunities and develop action plans.
• Project implementation and delivery of energy‑saving initiatives.
• Measurement, verification, reporting and maintenance of a project registry for all energy‑related projects.
• Create Strategic Energy Management Plan following current templates.
• Oversight of safety programs, audits, and incident investigations.
• Coordination of regulatory inspections and corrective actions.

Leadership Profile

• 8–12+ years of progressive experience in facilities, building operations, or maintenance leadership.
• Experience with high‑rise luxury residential, hospitality, or complex mixed‑use environments.
• Strong technical background in HVAC systems, building controls, and integrated building systems.
• Demonstrated capital planning and project management capability.
• Executive‑level communication and stakeholder management skills.

Credentials

• Must hold a Certified Energy Manager (CEM) certification.
• Trade certification (HVAC, Electrical, or Plumbing).
• PMP or formal project management training.
• BMS / controls certification or formal training.
• Safety certifications (First Aid, WHMIS, confined space).