AddressJob Title
Facilities Manager
Summary
Job Description
About the Asset
Working in a high-performance team and reporting to a Senior FM. Your role is onsite at a flagship A Grade commercial office property of circa. 29,000 m2 located a short walk from St Leonards Railway station. The state-of-the-art building was completed in 2020 and provides critical accommodation over 9 office levels for a key NSW Gov. agency. On behalf of the landlord, you will oversee all technical and non-technical services ensuring the building is optimally managed to provide a high standard of amenity and customer satisfaction.
Job Description Summary
The purpose of the Facilities Manager role is to manage this flagship asset diligently and proactively, ensuring a consistent standard and best practice approach in the delivery of Facilities Management services. Your relationship skills in managing client engagement and communication will provide a positive customer outcome. The Facilities Manager is expected to foresee and take proactive management of issues to mitigate and escalate any potential risks. This role will contribute to the consistent and best practice approach to account delivery across this client portfolio, following contractual obligations and C&W policies.
About the role:
The role requires you to be onsite 5 days a week
To take ownership of the asset on behalf of owner
Managing all hard and soft services and equipment in the building
Understand importance of planned preventative maintenance and able to identify any gaps in the services
Manage site operations, including scheduled and ad-hoc works, to ensure continuity of property services with minimum disruption to client business operations
Manage and control budget and cost expenditure to contractual requirements for facilities management operations, for both preventative and reactive maintenance works at nominated sites
Monitor and implement asset management and ensure all preventative maintenance services are captured and delivered in accordance with environmental and safety guidelines / legislative requirements and site asset requirements
Conduct property condition audits as per contract requirements
Identify and support implementation of cost saves, innovation, and best practice
Ensure that safety measures and systems are implemented in accordance with relevant legislation, policy, compliance, and customer safety requirements
Identify hazards and conduct risk assessments for the tasks associated with the works
Proactively conducts regular stakeholder meetings to drive engagement, collaboration, and continual improvement through shared learnings
With a focus on client experience, effectively manage all client, landlord and supplier partner relationships
Manages the budget and financial performance of the portfolio
Provides input into annual FM budget preparation and quarterly forecasts
About You:
Minimum 5 years' experience as a Facilities Building Manager with responsibility for non-technical and technical services - commercial office building experience highly desirable.
Knowledge of building services systems and software relevant to commercial property
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Strong client focus and customer experience mindset essential
Trade qualified with minimum of 4 years' experience or equivalent highly desirable.
Excellent attention to detail skills
Excellent time management skills
Why join Cushman & Wakefield?
As one of the leading global real estate services firms transforming the way people work, shop and live working at Cushman & Wakefield means you will benefit from being part of a growing global company. Career development and a promote from within culture. An organization committed to Diversity and Inclusion We're committed to providing work-life balance for our people in an inclusive, rewarding environment. We achieve this by providing a flexible and agile work environment by focusing on technology and autonomy to help our people achieve their career ambitions. We focus on career progression and foster a promotion from within culture, leveraging global opportunities to ensure we retain our top talent. We encourage continuous learning and development opportunities to develop personal, professional and technical capabilities, and we reward with a comprehensive employee benefits program.
We have a vision of the future, where people simply belong. That's why we support and celebrate inclusive causes, not just on days of recognition throughout the year, but every day. We embrace diversity across race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or persons with disabilities or protected veteran status. As part of our ongoing commitment to RAP, Aboriginal or Torres Strait Island Islanders are highly encouraged to join us! (For AUS only) We ensure DEI is part of our DNA as a global community - it means we go way beyond than just talking about it - we live it. If you want to live it too, join us.
As an equal opportunity employer, Cushman & Wakefield encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and female candidates to apply. Cushman & Wakefield promotes safety at all times.
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