Location: Werribee, VIC
Duration: Up to 6 months
Rate:$43 per hour + Super
About the Role:
Reporting to the relevant facilities management team, you will play a key role in coordinating maintenance activities, contractor management, and asset inspections to ensure council facilities remain safe, compliant, functional, and fit for purpose.
Key Responsibilities
- Facilitate site condition audits across designated property portfolios
- Coordinate maintenance works across council facilities
- Supervise contractors and service providers to ensure quality service delivery within agreed timeframes
- Undertake minor repairs and adjustments where appropriate and safe to do so
- Respond to maintenance requests and ensure works are accurately logged and tracked through council systems
- Manage administration of work tasks and financial invoicing requirements
- Liaise with building operators, tenants, contractors, and stakeholders to minimise disruption during maintenance activities
- Monitor contractor performance and service quality to achieve value-for-money outcomes
- Investigate building-related issues and prepare reports and recommendations
- Support compliance with building regulations, Essential Safety Measures (ESM), asset management standards, and statutory requirements
- Assist with maintenance planning and contribute to annual budget preparation
- Previous supervisory experience within facilities, building maintenance, or property services environments
- Strong understanding of Essential Safety Measures (ESM) compliance requirements
- Experience coordinating contractors across multiple concurrent maintenance activities
- Experience conducting building and asset audits, including maintaining accurate records and documentation
- Strong stakeholder engagement, negotiation, and communication skills
- Intermediate Microsoft Office Suite skills
- Substantial experience using Building Maintenance Systems, Financial Systems, Asset Management Systems, and Maintenance Management Systems
- Ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively across a diverse property portfolio
- Essential Safety Measures (ESM): Your understanding of ESM requirements and how you have ensured compliance in previous roles.
- Contractor Coordination: Experience managing contractors across multiple maintenance works and projects.
- Building & Asset Audits: Experience conducting audits and the methodologies used for record management and documentation.
- Stakeholder Management: Strategies you have used to influence, negotiate, and achieve successful outcomes with various stakeholders.
If you have a strong facilities maintenance background and are looking for your next opportunity within local government, we'd love to hear from you.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
At Chandler Macleod, we are committed to fostering a diverse workforce where everyone is welcome. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, women, neurodiverse, people living with a disability and the LGBTIQA+ community.
You can read more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion at https://www.chandlermacleod.com/diversity-and-inclusion.
