Address About the roleYou will play a vital role in ensuring that the council’s facilities are well-maintained, safe, and functional, providing a positive experience for the City’s customer and community – it’s residents and visitors.
Work type: Permanent full timeClassification: Band 8 ($115,035 - $127,911 pa plus super)
Key responsibilities include:
Develop and implement a comprehensive maintenance plan for council-owned facilities, including buildings, parks, recreation centres, community halls, and other public amenities.
Work closely with the Strategic Asset Management team to ensure that asset records are up to date and maintenance efforts are aligned to strategic priorities.
Collaborate with teams in the City Infrastructure directorate to identify opportunities to integrate Facilities Maintenance functions across various asset maintenance functions, to ensure consistent practices, streamline processes, share resources, and optimise maintenance activities across all council-owned assets.
Coordinate and undertake maintenance analysis, including responding to requests, determining responsibility for works, estimating costs and specifying the work required.
Oversee all aspects of facility maintenance, including scheduling, inspections, repairs, and preventative maintenance activities and after-hours response to ensure the timely completion of tasks and compliance with relevant regulations and standards.
About youTo be successful in this role, you will have a degree of diploma in facilities management, building or construction management, engineering or related discipline and relevant experience. Alternatively, a trade-based qualification with the required level of experience and skills will be considered.
Qualifications:
Certificate IV or Diploma in OH&S
Current Victorian Drivers Licence
Working with Children Check (Employee)
Essential Experience:
Demonstrated experience in Facilities Maintenance or asset management, preferably in a local government or similar complex environment.
Demonstrated experience in the use of judgement to enable quality decision making within complex multidisciplinary projects.
Demonstrated ability to build partnerships with a range of stakeholders (both external and internal including Councillors) to achieve optimal outcomes.
Strong leadership skills with a demonstrated record of managing diverse Facilities Maintenance teams.
Demonstrated high level of interpersonal, communications, consultation and negotiations skills.
Demonstrated experience in budget management and forecasting.
The health and safety of our people is our highest priority. It is our current policy to ask for your COVID-19 vaccination status. You have the right not to disclose your vaccination status, and successful candidates who are not vaccinated or do not want to disclose will go through a simple risk assessment process.
If this sounds like the role for you, then click apply now!
Create our future together at the City of Greater GeelongAt the City of Greater Geelong, we are committed to working together for a thriving community. We do this by delivering over 130 services to our rapidly growing population and working hard to protect and improve what it is that makes Greater Geelong on Wadawurrung Country such a great place to live, work and study.
We’re going through an exciting period of change that will help us serve our community better. From digital modernisation to the contemporary, sustainable office we've built in Central Geelong, now more than ever is a great time to join our team at the City of Greater Geelong.
Our Community is made up of diverse people from all walks of life, and it’s important to us that our workforce represents and celebrates this strength.
We encourage great people from all backgrounds to join us. We encourage authenticity, because inclusion makes us stronger.
If you’re excited about working together to create a Clever and Creative Greater Geelong, and joining a workplace where all people can thrive, then hit apply – we’d love to meet you!
We particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with diverse culture and linguistic backgrounds and people with disability.
A career with usCentral Geelong-based City employees are now based in our new Civic Precinct, Wurriki Nyal. Meaning ‘speak and talk together’ in local Wadawurrung language. Wurriki Nyal sets the benchmark for what a sustainable, inclusive and culturally safe workplace can be, including industry leading sustainability standards, a flexible and people-focused design, safe and inclusive spaces and public realm.
We’re committed to supporting better accessibility for our customers and our people. We encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments or additional support you may require during the recruitment process, as well as how this role can be flexible for you.
We offer:
salary sacrificing and novated lease options
cultural and ceremonial leave
study leave
paid parental leave (16 weeks primary and six weeks secondary) and superannuation payments on all 52 weeks primary parental leave
IVF, surrogate and miscarriage bereavement leave
training and career development opportunities
a healthy and safe environment
our employee wellbeing program
corporate membership rates at Swim Sport and Leisure facilities
unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning
Applications and EnquiriesClick the Position Description link to view more information about this position.
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Applications close Sunday 3 March 2024 at 11:55pm.
Enquiries: David Greaves | Manager City Works | 5272 4180 | DGreaves@geelongcity.vic.gov.au
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