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Salary· 2x Ongoing Full-Time roles
· Location: Sydney
· Package includes salary ($120,859- $133,183), employer's contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading.
SINSW Sydney Office is a dynamic and exciting place to work. We provide a high-quality service to support schools across, maintenance, capital works, lease and licence, accommodation requirements and all areas of facilities and asset management.
About the role
The Group Leader manages and oversees the delivery of minor capital works and facilities management programs, in addition to providing operational input into the development of the annual capital works and facilities management programs. The Group Leader is also responsible for developing local project management protocols to ensure an effective working relationship between facilities management contractors, schools, and other stakeholders to deliver a range of programs and services.
For further information please to view the role description
About School Infrastructure
School Infrastructure NSW (SINSW) is delivering new school buildings, major upgrades and maintenance strategies to ensure every school-aged child has access to high quality education facilities at their local public school. This encompasses the largest investment in public education infrastructure in the history of NSW.
Benefits
- Flexible working arrangements, including - hybrid/work from home arrangements.
- 35 hour working week
- Competitive salary, salary sacrificing, employer’s contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading
- Flex Leave entitlements, generous holidays & leave conditions
- Opportunities for advancement and mobility across the Department to support your career growth
- Your approach is operational and tactical in ensuring facilities maintenance programs are successfully carried through.
- Your attention to detail is second to none where you will oversee the coordination of projects and that day-to-day operational issues are responded to in a timely manner.
- Throughout your career you have become no stranger to collaborating and building positive internal and external relationships with stakeholders to meet program deadlines, accommodation requests, development of lease and licence agreements and maintain all aspects of service delivery and management of issues.
- You thrive on delivering high level customer service to Schools.
Essential requirements of the role
- Current driver’s licence and willingness to travel across the assigned AMU area.
About the Department of Education
The Department of Education is the largest provider of public education in Australia, with nearly 100,000 employees across NSW in our schools and corporate offices. Our purpose is centred on the delivery of high-quality public education to two-thirds of the NSW student population.
For more information about the Department of Education, please visit
How to apply
When applying you will need to:
Attach a resume (maximum 5 pages) and a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) outlining how you meet the requirements and capabilities of this role as well as providing answers to the 2 pre-screening questions below:
Targeted Question 1
From your experience provide an example of how you managed a team in the delivery of a program of works and what was the outcome? (300 words maximum)
Targeted Question 2
SINSW is a high-volume high-pressure environment, from your experience provide an example of how you managed a contentious issue involving multiple stakeholders and what was the outcome? (300 words maximum)
Note: the selection process will include a range of assessment techniques to assist in determining your suitability for the role.
Successful candidates will be required to undertake pre-employment screening for this role which includes a National Criminal History Check.
As a condition of employment, successful candidates who have not previously worked for the department will be required to provide a current Working with Children Check (WWCC) Clearance number (for paid employment). This option would allow the WWCC to naturally expire without further communication needed with the employee. The employer obligations under the WWCC would apply for duration of the WWCC’s validity (up to 5 years).
Closing date 6 February 2024 at 11:59pm.
For role enquiries please contact Aaron Walsh at .
We welcome applications from all ages and genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse groups, the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees and people with disability. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better enable you to shine, please contact the Diversity and Inclusion Team ( ) or visit .”
A talent pool may be created through this recruitment process. A talent pool is a group of applicants who have been assessed and identified as suitable for this role, and who may be considered for a range of similar roles, including temporary, term or ongoing roles, over the next 18 months.
