Chief Engineer
About the job
- At least 7 years of related experience, especially as a Chief Engineer, Assistant Chief Engineer, or similar.
- People management experience leading a team.
- Universal CFC EPA certification.
- Experience using Microsoft Office, including Word, Outlook, Excel, and Teams.
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds.
- Comfort using ladders up to 30 feet tall.
- Ability to frequently climb, bend, kneel, lift, and/or drive.
- Strong customer service and communication skills.
- Must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
- Oversee the maintenance and continuous operation of all building systems.
- Supervise and manage engineers and maintenance staff, including hiring, training, coaching, and personal development.
- Create and routinely update a documented plan covering preventive, predictive, and reactive maintenance procedures.
- Participate regularly in client-facing and property team communications.
- Lead and manage the engineering budget and participate in the overall operating budget process.
- Assist in developing a capital improvement plan.
- Select, schedule, supervise, and direct contractors, and monitor and document their performance.
- Respond effectively to emergencies and service calls.
- Lead and organize ongoing technical, safety, and operational process training programs and procedures.
- Perform other duties as requested by the property management team and/or client.
- Class A office commercial property experience.
- Trade school education, union training, military service, or college.
About the company
JLL provides global real estate and investment management services for corporations, governments, financial institutions, and property owners. It helps clients buy, sell, lease, and manage properties, while offering advisory work, property management, leasing, capital markets, workplace strategy, sustainability, and technology solutions; revenue comes from service fees, commissions, and management fees on assets under management. It differentiates itself as a large, integrated, globally operated platform with end-to-end coverage across property types and markets, plus a focus on ethical practices and sustainability. The goal is to help clients manage and invest in real estate more effectively through comprehensive advisory and execution services and by growing assets under management.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Chicago, Illinois
Founded
1999
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What believers are saying
- Q2 2026 revenue reached $6.9 billion, up 11%, with Advisory up 21%.
- Data center leasing momentum lifted Q2 2026 advisory growth in the U.S., Japan, and UK.
- Sarah Pollard joined October 1, 2026 to expand EMEA financial services and data centers.
What critics are saying
- JLL closed its UK planning division on October 5, 2026, cutting at least 25 roles.
- Persistent restructuring follows nearly 150 UK job cuts in 2025, signaling margin pressure.
- AI commoditization can erase advisory pricing, collapsing JLL's fee advantage across global leasing.
What makes Jones Lang LaSalle unique
- JLL's Accelerate 2030, launched March 12, 2026, unifies data, AI, and client delivery.
- Paul Morgan's September 16, 2026 COO role centralizes operations across JLL's platform.
- 10Twelve won Deer Valley East Village retail leasing on September 24, 2026.
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Benefits
401(k) plan
Comprehensive Medical, Dental & Vision Care
Paid parental leave
Paid Time Off
Company Holidays
401(k) plan with matching company contributions
Health Insurance
Flexible Work Arrangements
Gym Membership
Health Insurance
Private Health Insurance Discounts
Employee assistance program
Novated Lease for EV Cars
Wellness Program
Social Club
Parental Leave
Family Planning Benefits
Fertility Treatment Support
Reference to flexible work arrangements
Paid Holidays
Paid Time Off
Hybrid Work Options
Remote Work Options
Paid Vacation
Sabbatical Leave
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JLL appoints former Meta leader Sarah Pollard to drive EMEA growth. JLL has appointed Sarah Pollard as Division President, Work Dynamics EMEA, to lead the firm's Financial Services, Public Institutions, and Data Centres divisions in EMEA and drive continued growth across these high-priority sectors. In her role, Pollard will be accountable for service delivery and growth across her divisions in alignment with JLL's Global Industry Leads. She will report to Sue Asprey Price, CEO, EMEA Work Dynamics & Global Head of Portfolio Services, and will join the Work Dynamics EMEA Board. Based primarily across JLL's London offices, Pollard will initially lead Financial Services and Public Institutions, with accountability for the Data Centres division transferring to her at the end of November. The appointment comes as JLL's EMEA business continues to grow and client needs become increasingly sophisticated across both sectors. JLL's latest EMEA Mid-Year Data Centre Report identified record growth across the region, with FLAP-D markets on track to deliver approximately 453 MW in 2026 - roughly tripling 2020 volumes - while live capacity reached 3.8 GW. The sector is currently experiencing its most significant geographic transformation in a decade, driven by AI-scale power requirements and grid constraints in established markets. Meanwhile, JLL's Future of Work Survey 2026 reveals that global financial services organisations are navigating unprecedented complexity around AI adoption and portfolio strategy. The sector shows the widest range of AI maturity of any industry, with 29.8% still bystanding while 18.3 per cent have reached the optimising stage. With 67.1 per cent planning office expansion and 38.9 per cent naming rental increases a top occupancy cost driver - the highest of 15 industries surveyed - financial services clients require sophisticated guidance as they commit to space on longer horizons while AI's impact on footprint remains unresolved. Pollard's extensive real estate leadership experience will help address these challenges and opportunities, with a background in global operations, client strategy, and high-performing team leadership across some of the world's most demanding technology and financial services environments. Pollard joins JLL from Meta, where she most recently served as Global Head of Central Operations, leading complex, multi-regional operational frameworks for one of the world's most sophisticated real estate portfolios. Prior to Meta, Pollard spent four years at Amazon in senior global and regional leadership roles, where she drove strategic real estate initiatives across multiple markets. She also previously spent over two years with JLL EMEA Work Dynamics, after having held senior strategy and operational roles at BNP Paribas Real Estate, Regus, Johnson Controls, and Barclays, building a proven track record of aligning portfolio and workplace strategies to clients' business objectives and leading high-performing, multi-disciplinary teams. Pollard said of her appointment: "I'm excited to be rejoining JLL at such a dynamic time for the business. Having spent recent years working at the forefront of global real estate operations with Meta and Amazon, I've seen firsthand the value of having built experience on both the client and supply side. That perspective allows me to understand clients' needs and challenges in ways that strengthen how we build partnerships and deliver strategic solutions at scale. "What attracted me back to JLL was the opportunity to lead a business within a world class organisation whose values I am aligned to. JLL's integrated platform and deep sector expertise position the firm uniquely to support clients as their requirements become more complex. My immediate focus is to leverage my client side and operational experience to ensure we have the frameworks in place to set the business and its customers up for continued success." Asprey Price commented: "We are thrilled to welcome Sarah back to JLL at such an important moment for our business. Her experience leading global real estate operations at Meta and Amazon - two of the world's most sophisticated and fast-moving organisations - gives her a unique perspective on the complexity our largest clients are navigating. Combined with her proven ability to align real estate strategies with complex business objectives, she is perfectly positioned to lead these critical divisions as we deliver our Accelerate 2030 strategy." She added: "Sarah's deep understanding of how to scale operations while maintaining excellence in delivery will be invaluable as our clients' needs become increasingly sophisticated. In financial services, clients are making expansion commitments while navigating AI-driven transformation, and in data centres, operators are securing capacity in an increasingly competitive landscape shaped by unprecedented infrastructure growth. Her leadership will be instrumental in ensuring we deliver the depth of sector expertise and coordinated solutions our clients expect." Facilities & Estates Management Live 2026 * 20-21 October, Business Design Centre, London * 3 CPD seminar theatres, 100+ suppliers, zero cost to attend The facilities and estates landscape is evolving fast. Keeping up with new regulations, sustainable practices, and workplace technologies requires the right insights and connections. That is why you need to be at Facilities & Estates Management Live. 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JLL to shut UK planning department. JLL is set to close its UK planning division, putting the 25-strong team at risk of redundancy. The property consultancy said in a statement that it had made "the difficult but necessary decision" to propose that some roles within the business are made redundant. JLL's planning team spans at least 25 members, with employees in offices in London, Bristol, Manchester, Leeds and Edinburgh. The team is led by Raoul Veevers, head of planning UK, including London and the South East, who joined from Cluttons in 2022. Joanna Gabrilatsou is head of regional planning and town planning and is based at JLL's Manchester office. She has been with the firm since 2011. JLL's statement read: "We are always reviewing our business to ensure that the delivery of our services meets our strategic priorities and client needs. "This has resulted in the difficult but necessary decision to propose that some roles within the business could be made redundant. "We have strong leadership and teams and remain confident in our ability to deliver continued value for our clients in the market." JLL's former UK chief executive Stephanie Hyde, departed in April last year, with Matt Richards promoted to the role. He previously served as chief executive of capital markets for EMEA. In May of that year, JLL made nearly 150 roles redundant within its UK property and asset management arm. Knight Frank recently announced its own redundancy consultation, which it expects to affect less than 3% of its UK workforce. Headcounts across the 10 agencies remained virtually level across the top 10, with only 307 employees added year on year to a combined workforce of more than 23,000.
AI data centre boom strains power grids, fuels battery storage investment race. Surging AI and data centre demand is straining global power grids, pushing tech firms and investors toward battery storage and direct renewable energy acquisitions to secure reliable electricity, according to JLL. JLL, a professional services firm specialising in real estate and investment management, has outlined how artificial intelligence and data centre expansion are affecting global power markets, citing both infrastructure constraints and investment implications. A decades-long trend of stable or declining electricity demand has reversed. North American data centre capacity is projected to nearly double from 57 GW to 109 GW by 2030, while hyperscalers have committed $200 billion in capital expenditure for 2026 alone - a 51% increase from 2025. According to JLL's global Energy & Infrastructure Advisory platform, securing power infrastructure has become a key constraint in the expansion of AI-related computing capacity. Grid infrastructure emerges as primary constraint. Transmission infrastructure, originally designed for large, centralised power stations, is struggling to accommodate a decentralised influx of new renewable energy sources. This has created grid congestion in primary markets across the U.S., Europe and Asia Pacific. Despite the record capital expenditure figures cited above, interconnection queues for new renewable projects now extend to four years or more in some regions, with certain areas forced to pause new connections entirely. These dynamics are playing out at different speeds across key markets. In the U.S., interconnection reform and merchant power exposure are reshaping deal structures. In Europe, regulatory frameworks are evolving unevenly across member states. In APAC, data centre build-out is outpacing grid planning in several markets, according to JLL. Battery storage positioned as infrastructure solution. Battery energy storage systems are being used as infrastructure to manage grid constraints and renewable energy intermittency. JLL's Energy & Infrastructure Advisory advised on the disposal of a 395MW/790MWh operational battery energy storage system (BESS) portfolio in the UK, which JLL describes as the largest operational sale in Europe to date and says it established a new pricing benchmark for the market. The transaction earned JLL three awards at the 2026 Tamarindo Energy Storage Investment Awards, including Financial Advisor of the Year and M&A Deal of the Year. Regional dynamics drive partnership models. Grid access challenges are prompting collaboration between energy developers and data centre operators across global markets. Some technology companies are becoming direct participants in the energy market, with some acquiring operating renewable assets outright to secure power supply. In one example, a Bitcoin miner in Texas purchased an operating wind farm that JLL was marketing, in order to secure its power infrastructure. JLL says this demonstrates that energy users are willing to pay above market rates for reliable power supply. According to JLL, investment opportunities extend beyond traditional power generation to assets that provide flexibility and certainty in constrained markets. The firm says power access has evolved from an operational consideration to a factor affecting asset viability and valuation.
Deer Valley East Village taps JLL's 10Twelve to lead retail leasing for Village's commercial core. Boutique retail platform to curate 70+ shops, restaurants and dining experiences across 180,000+ square feet, with initial openings targeted for the 2028/2029 ski season. Deer Valley East Village // Sept 24, 2026 PARK CITY, Utah - Extell Development Company has selected JLL, and its boutique retail leasing platform 10Twelve, to lead retail and restaurant leasing for Deer Valley East Village, the first new alpine village built in North America in more than 40 years. 10Twelve will curate a collection of 70+ shops, restaurants and dining experiences across more than 180,000 square feet of commercial space, withDeer Valley East Village's retail and commercial openings targeted to coincide with the 2028/2029 ski season. Deer Valley East Village is set at the base of Deer Valley Resort's expanded terrain in the Wasatch Mountains overlooking the Jordanelle Reservoir. The next milestone in the mixed-use development, anticipated in late 2027, will bring online the East Village Lodge which will house Deer Valley Skier Services, the Four Seasons Resort and Residences Deer Valley Residence Tower, and initial commercial spaces, establishing the pedestrian plaza, resort access and five-star hospitality that will define the village. The following phase will coincide with the start of the 2028 ski season and include the opening of the Four Seasons Resort and Residences Deer Valley Hotel tower, Waldorf Astoria Deer Valley Resort and Residences, the first phase of Cormont residences, Marcella at Deer Valley, a residential neighborhood comprising 144 on-mountain home sites and 50 townhomes anchored by two on-mountain private lodges, and the majority of the retail and dining experiences within the village core. The remaining residential and retail is expected to be completed by 2030 thus marking the full build-out of Deer Valley East Village. 10Twelve will work closely with Deer Valley East Village's ownership and development partners to design a merchandising strategy and tenant mix tailored specifically to Deer Valley East Village that pairs national and regional retailers with emerging, localand experiential concepts intended to feel distinct to the mountain setting and aligned with the destination's five-star positioning. "Deer Valley East Village represents a rare opportunity to help define the retail and dining identity of a world-class mountain destination from the ground up. Our team is working with Extell to blend nationally recognized brands with emerging and localconcepts that reflect what makes Deer Valley East Village special. This is about creating a destination that becomes a lasting, welcoming part of the community fabric, something residents and visitors alike make their own." - Molly Morgan, Managing Director, 10Twelve, Retail Leasing Advisory at JLL. The retail and dining program is designed to serve residents, hotel guests and day visitors alike, complementing a broader amenity program that includes North America's largest ski beach and 60,000 square feet of recreation space. Commercial spaces are woventhroughout the pedestrian village core, anchoring the experience around the community ice rink, outdoor amphitheater and ski beach. That vibrancy extends beyond winter, where the village is programmed for year-round activity, with summer activations throughoutthe village core, live music in the outdoor amphitheater, and access to more than 50 miles of interconnected hiking and biking trails. "Deer Valley East Village was intentionally built to be a place people want to be all twelve months a year. It's been designed so that time spent in the village is just as much a part of the alpine lifestyle as the time spent on the mountain. Our food, beverageand retail program is central to the destination's character, it's what turns the village from a place you pass through into a place you live, gather and come back to time again. Partnering with 10Twelve gives us a curatorial partner who understands how tobuild a tenant mix with real identity, rather than simply filling square footage, and that's exactly the standard this village is held to." - Peter Peterson, Deer Valley East Village Senior Vice President, Food, Beverage & Entertainment Nationally, 10Twelve works across 58 projects representing approximately 9 million square feet, specializing in identifying and attracting a dynamic mix of national, emerging, regional and local retailers, restaurants and experiential concepts distinctive totheir markets. The Deer Valley East Village assignment adds one of the most closely watched new-build mountain destinations in North America to that portfolio. ABOUT DEER VALLEY EAST VILLAGE Deer Valley East Village, developed by Extell Development Company, is the premier new residential address in North American mountain real estate. The first new alpine ski village in North America in over 40 years, Deer Valley East Village sits at the base ofDeer Valley Resort's expanded terrain in the Wasatch Mountains above the Jordanelle Reservoir, 40 minutes from Salt Lake City International Airport via freeway. Deer Valley East Village is strongly focused on recreation, and the ski mountain is operated bythe renowned Deer Valley Resort. Nearly 1,700 private residences span the full ownership spectrum: luxury ski condominiums, branded hotel residences, gated townhomes, and private estate lots with golf club membership. Residential and commercial developmentpartners include Reef Capital Partners and Dart Interests. The village is anchored by world-class hospitality brands; Four Seasons, Waldorf Astoria, Grand Hyatt Deer Valley, with other eminent global brands as well as it includes notable emerging brands likeMarcella and Cormont at Deer Valley. The village's planned amenity program includes North America's largest ski beach, 60,000 square feet of recreation, and over 70 shops, restaurants and cafés. Deer Valley East Village represents both a lifestyle purchaseand a long-term investment in one of the world's most celebrated ski destinations. For more information, visit deervalleyeastvillage.com. ABOUT 10TWELVE 10Twelve is a boutique retail leasing platform within JLL focused on creating compelling, differentiated destinations through strategic merchandising and thoughtful tenant curation. Combining deep retail expertise, local market intelligence and the scale and resources of JLL, 10Twelve collaborates with owners and developers to develop and execute leasing strategies tailored to each property, its market and the customers it serves. Working across 58 projects representing approximately 9 million square feet nationwide, the team specializes in identifying and attracting a dynamic mix of national, emerging, regional and local retailers, restaurants and experiential concepts that are distinctive to their markets and aligned with each asset's positioning. Through strategic merchandising and tenant mix curation, 10Twelve helps clients strengthen asset positioning, enhance the customer experience and drive long-term value. JLL (NYSE:JLL) is a leading global commercial real estate services and investment management company with annual revenue of $26.1 billion, operations in over 80 countries and a global workforce of more than 112,000 as of June 30, 2026. For over 200 years, clients have trusted JLL, a Fortune 500(R) company, to help them confidently buy, build, occupy, manage and invest across a variety of industries and property types, including office, industrial, hotel, multi-family, retail and data center properties. Driven by our purpose to shape the future of real estate for a better world, we help our clients, people and communities SEE A BRIGHTER WAY. Powered by rich global datasets and leading technology capabilities, we provide coordinated, end-to-end delivery of real estate services for a broad range of global clients who represent a wide variety of industries. Through LaSalle Investment Management, we invest for clients on a global basis in both private assets and publicly traded real estate securities. For further information, visit jll.com.
People moves: Chhavi Nayak, JLL. September 24, 2026 Why Chhavi Nayak returned to JLL to lead Data Centre deals. Chhavi Nayak joins JLL UK as Senior Director - Data Centre Transactions, with years of experience across Deloitte and JLL India JLL UK has strengthened its infrastructure and real estate advisory capabilities with the appointment of Chhavi Nayak as Senior Director - Data Centre Transactions. In her new role, she will lead transactional strategy and support client growth across the UK data centre sector. Returning to familiar ground. Chhavi made the move to JLL in August 2026 after spending three years and nine months as a Senior Manager at Deloitte UK. However, the corporate real estate firm is not fresh ground for her. She previously spent nine years at JLL India. During that time, she served as Director - Product Implementation and Sales - Flexible Spaces, where she managed national sales and acted as the single point of contact for the business's largest global product launch in 2019. Driving transaction growth. "Coming back to the world of data centres and JLL feels very special," Chhavi said on LinkedIn. "From my early years in infrastructure, to nine years at JLL India, where my data centre journey began, followed by an enriching 3+ years at Deloitte UK, this feels like a meaningful continuation of a journey that brings together many of the experiences, relationships and perspectives built along the way." Chhavi will work alongside Paul Foreman and the wider infrastructure group, operating out of JLL's 1 Broadgate office in London. "There is a truly talented and brilliant group of people across the team," Chhavi added, "and it will be a pleasure to contribute, collaborate and build on the great work already underway."