AddressWe are looking for a Maintenance & Grounds Supervisor to join the team at Cardinal Freeman Retirement Village located in Ashfield. With a small team of Maintenance and Grounds Officers reporting to you, you’ll be organising, managing, and overseeing a range and variety of day-to-day maintenance requirements in the village, ensuring the continued comfort, safety and happiness of our residents residing across the 318 units and 40 serviced apartments.
A permanent, full-time position, Monday to Friday, 8am – 4pm.
About the role:
In this key role, you’ll oversee the maintenance team and supervise and deliver appropriate and efficient maintenance of the village, creating and sustaining a safe environment for residents. Supporting the Village Manager in contractor management, ensuring contractors sign in and abide by all WH&S practices and legislation, issuing work permits where relevant. In addition, but not limited to;
- Prioritise and action resident maintenance requests submitted in line with agreed timeframe expectations
- Build and maintain strong relationships with residents, through delivery of outstanding service
- Build and maintain effective work relationships with all team members and contractors at the village
- Assist with general building maintenance and repairs as required
- Coordinate and manage external contractors undertaking maintenance or ad hoc repairs
- Manage regular maintenance and upkeep
- Deliver preventative maintenance including: smoke alarms, air conditioners, hot water units, gutters, pergolas
- Coordinate a preventative maintenance program by external contractors including electrical test and tag, mechanical ventilation, auto-door servicing, lift services, footpath safety and fire safety services
- Undertake basic administrative tasks associated with maintenance
About you:
A great opportunity for someone who is passionate about what they do, enjoys variety, engaging with a wide range of people and people management. You will still be hands on, so utilising your maintenance skills.
- You’ll bring with you, your maintenance experience, and a wide variety of general handy skills, from either the aged care, retirement living, facilities or hospitality industry or similar
- Experience in team management or supervising or had experience in overseeing other team members that may not have necessarily reported to you directly
- Confident, great communicator and engaging and interacting with residents and team will be your strength, as well as your ability to build and maintain effective relationships externally
- High attention to detail and adherence to Work, Health and Safety
- Take pride in consistently delivering a high quality of work
- Basic computer skills to manage minimal administration including emails
- Current valid driver’s licence to be able to use the work ute during work hours
Be part of the newly branded Levande. Levande is one of Australia’s largest retirement living providers with 10,000 residents and 58 retirement villages, (formerly owned by Stockland).
The Stockland Retirement Living business has been acquired by EQT Infrastructure. This means that any applications for vacant positions advertised for the Retirement Living business will be processed by EQT Infrastructure, and any successful applicants will be employed by EQT Infrastructure's new retirement services business, Australian Retirement Services Pty Ltd (ABN 80 087 648 691) (‘ARS’). We will handle information you provide us in your application in accordance with our Privacy Policy, available [here], and will disclose relevant application information to EQT Infrastructure for processing. Please note that ARS and its related entities are not associated with Stockland Corporation Ltd (ABN 43 000 181 733) and its corporate group ('Stockland'), and Stockland does not take any responsibility for any obligations of, or materials or information provided by, ARS.
