AddressWho are we?
As one of Australia’s leading student accommodation providers, with properties in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, Iglu combines off-campus living with five-star hotel-style facilities for a diverse resident community. Cool design and warm hospitality are at the core of everything we do.
Innovative and dynamic, no two days at Iglu are ever the same. The culture is vibrant, fun and collaborative, with a key focus on customer service. We encourage personal and professional development in a welcoming and supportive atmosphere.
About the role
As Facilities Manager of our South Yarra property, you will be key to ensuring the property always reflects our promise of cool design, and our residents have the best experience possible once they move in. You will be responsible for the delivery of a first-class maintenance and repairs program while championing Work Health and Safety policies, services, training and advice.
Job tasks and responsibilities
- Develop and implement property specific Annual Maintenance Plans.
- Induction of external contractors and active management of their work.
- Ensure all residents' maintenance requests are actioned promptly and courteously.
- Provide day-to-day supervision and leadership to small in-house maintenance team.
- Keeping and monitoring inventory of spare parts and equipment.
- Ensuring Work Health & Safety policies and procedures are met and maintained across the properties.
- Deliver on all compliance and statutory requirements, including regular property audits.
- Ensure all residents' maintenance requests are actioned promptly and courteously.
- Ensuring Work Health & Safety policies and procedures are met and maintained across the properties.
- Attend to initial building defects and carry out the necessary repairs as required.
- Attend to typical handyman tasks like carpentry and cabinetry repairs, patching and painting repairs, landscaping tasks, whitegoods fault inspections and repairs, and various other tasks as the role and asset requires.
- Carry out daily checks of all base building plant operations to ensure the systems are running efficiently and generally in accordance with the intent of the asset's O&M manuals.
- Ensure all areas of the property are presentable including where repairs are carried out, the area is tidied up and/ or made good at the completion of works.
- Build and maintain positive resident rapport and working collaboratively with the team and other stakeholders.
- Deliver on all compliance and statutory requirements, including regular property audits
Skills and experience
- Minimum 3 years of experience as a Facilities Manager.
- Demonstrated contractor management skills.
- Experience in managing Building Compliance requirements.
- Ability to conduct minor repairs to the properties (carpentry, plumbing, mechanical repairs, painting etc.).
- Strong working knowledge of Work, Health & Safety legislation and practice
- Strong Technical and/or Trade background highly desirable.
- Experience in BMS operation desirable
Think you can demonstrate these talents? Then this could be the role for you. Get in touch!
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Agencies please note: recruitment for this position is being managed directly by Iglu. We will reach out to our preferred agency partners in the instance we require additional recruitment support. Your respect for this process is appreciated.
