William Gray
Algonquin,IL
Summary
Oversight of all aspects of regional portfolio, facilities with experience in the ability to lead and manage people and operations. Management of business seeking to maximize capacity and identifying opportunities to enhance productivity, service levels and profitability. Demonstrated effective leadership while directing and coordinating with strong understanding of the critical business process, manufacturing, and distribution.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Facilities, Director
CBRE
- Maintain P&L for $15 million of business for multiple clients
- Developed, implemented and monitored facility maintenance plans to ensure proper upkeep of buildings and grounds.
- Oversaw the installation, repair and maintenance of building systems such as HVAC, electrical, plumbing, carpentry and other equipment and develop relationship with key customer stakeholder/s and serve as an escalation point for issues
- Drive growth plans of all contracts, identifying opportunities and introducing opportunities to clients
- Initiate introductions to enable account service line growth, retention and drive year on year leveraged growth
- Led full member team to include Account Leads, Facilities Managers, Contract support, Engineers.
Regional Manager, Facilities
CBRE
01.2014 - 01.2021
- Corporate leadership for facility operations for Fortune 100 client a portfolio 4.2M sqft including all aspects of commercial facilities, corporate and manufacturing environments, along with critical facilities to include data/call centers
- Executed day-to-day operational activities for regional business bringing in $10m in yearly revenue.
- Cultivated and maintained solid partner relationships to drive mutually beneficial collaboration and bottom-line profits.
- Reduced financial discrepancies by managing P&L to remain under budget with on-time project completion.
- Planned and led team meetings to review business results and communicate new and ongoing priorities.
Sr Manager, Facilities
CBRE
01.2011 - 01.2014
- Oversee the Facility Operations activities for a Fortune 100 client including 1+ million square feet in both high level corporate and manufacturing environments
- Developed and implemented strategies to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and increase productivity.
- Coordinated with internal departments to ensure successful execution of projects according to timeline and budget constraints.
- Collaborated with cross-functional team members to build and execute development plans.
- Provide direction to a team of Facilities managers Provide comprehensive facilities support to the centralized managers for complete building, property, and maintenance thereof, including but not limited to full budgetary responsibility for items with depreciative value, asset life cycle analysis, reactive and proactive maintenance programs, including preventative and predictive maintenance.
Manager, Facilities
CBRE
01.2009 - 01.2011
Education
Some College (No Degree) - Diesel Mechanics Technology
Lincoln Tech
Chicago, ILSkills
- Designed and implemented programs for continuous improvement
- Driven results to Key Performance Indicators
- Knowledge of contracts and contract administration
- Cost savings planning and execution
- Budget Administration and planning
- Reviewing and analyzing financial variance reporting
- Strong focus on customer relationships
- Strong leadership skills
- Strong troubleshooting and problem resolution
- Operating efficiencies
- Safety culture focused
- Strong technical skills with all platforms and applications
- Operational Management
- Multi-Million Dollar P&L Management
- Asset Control
- New Business Development
- Operations
- Operations Management
- Strategic Development
Timeline
Regional Manager, Facilities
CBRE
01.2014 - 01.2021
Sr Manager, Facilities
CBRE
01.2011 - 01.2014
Manager, Facilities
CBRE
01.2009 - 01.2011
Facilities, Director
CBRE
Some College (No Degree) - Diesel Mechanics Technology
Lincoln Tech
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