Technical Officer Works – Facilities Maintenance Apply now Job no: 498883
Work type: Permanent Full Time
Classification: Band 7 ($100,064 - $110,990 pa)
Categories: Building Services, Trades & Labour, Property & Procurement
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.
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.
Diploma Work Health and Safety (minimum qualification cert 4 will be considered).Ability to effectively analyse and specify building maintenance works in terms of current technology.3+ years' Experience in a supervisory/manager role with ability to supervise and negotiate with trades and building service contractors.Understanding of the purpose of and ability to utilise (building) Asset Management Systems.Sound understanding of Building management systems and the role they play with operating buildings.Ability to prepare written reports, specifications, letters and memos to a standard that meets the purpose of those documents.Current Victorian Drivers Licence.Current Working with Children Check employee (wwcc).If this sounds like the role for you, then click apply now!
Child Safety Responsibilities
We are committed to being a child-safe organisation and have zero-tolerance for child abuse. We have specific policies, procedures, and mandatory training in place to support employees, volunteers, and contractors to achieve and adhere to these commitments. Please read our Child Safe Standards Management Policy .
Diversity and InclusionAt the City we want a workforce that reflects the community we live in. We welcome and embrace everyone, all people with their own unique experiences, and support and encourage all our employees to do their best work, have equal access to opportunities and a just working environment. For this reason, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from First Nations people, people with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, from the LGBTQIA+ community, people with disability and people of all genders, ages and diverse experience.
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 optionscultural and ceremonial leavestudy leavepaid parental leave (16 weeks primary and six weeks secondary) and superannuation payments on all 52 weeks primary parental leaveIVF, surrogate and miscarriage bereavement leavetraining and career development opportunitiesa healthy and safe environmentour employee wellbeing programcorporate membership rates at Swim Sport and Leisure facilitiesunlimited access to LinkedIn Learning Applications and Enquiries Click the Position Description link to view more information about this position.
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