Technical Officer Works – Facilities Maintenance

About the role
In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining of a portfolio of city owned building assets. The role will ensure that the buildings remain compliant and maintained in accordance with expectations as set out by relevant legislations, service manager and asset owner.
Work type: Permanent full time
Classification: Band 7 ($100,064-$110,990 pa plus super)
Key responsibilities include:

• Responsible for ensuring a safe workplace for contractors working on council assets at your direction.
• Manage councils building assets, ensuring the buildings are fit for purpose.
• Respond to requests, determine responsibility for works, estimate costs and specify the work required.
• Implement works required including obtaining quotes, assessing tenders, raising work orders, managing site access, ensuring compliance with regulations and standards, supervising works and seeking authorization of payments.
• Responsible for the creation of a program of planned works for each year, with a clear long-term plan in place for each facility.
• Responsible for management of the Essential Safety Measures and preparation of annual report within the building portfolio.

About you
To be successful in this role, you will have a Degree qualification and/or Trade qualification with several years' experience in the field or lessor formal qualifications with extensive experience in a similar position and a sound understanding of the relevant OH&S legislation and staff/contractor management.
Essential Experience:

• Ability to effectively analyse and specify building maintenance works in terms of current technology.
• Ability to supervise and negotiate with trades and building service contractors.
• Understanding of the purpose of and ability to utilise (building) Asset Management Systems.
• Ability to prepare written reports, specifications, letters and memos to a standard that meets the purpose of those documents.
• Current red/white card - basic construction induction card.
• Current Victorian Drivers Licence.
• Current Working with Children Check employee (wwcc).

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 Geelong
At 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 us
Central 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 Enquiries
Click the Position Description link to view more information about this position.
Enquiries: Neal Taylor | Coordinator Facilities Maintenance | 0466682374 |
Click the Apply button to submit your application or find out more about this opportunity. If we can assist you with any reasonable adjustments in order to submit your application for this role, please contact the Talent Acquisition team via email at careers@geelongcity.vic.gov.au noting your preferred method of communication and contact details and a member of the team will be in touch.
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Advertised: 15 Dec 2023 7:00 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time
Applications close: 10 Jan 2024 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time