Key Role
This is a critical leadership position in the Facilities Management team. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the site's assets are maintained to deliver optimal availability, reliability and compliance with operational requirements and regulatory obligations.
The Position:
* Responsible for ensuring availability and reliability of central energy plant and all hospital services by following a risk based preventive maintenance program focused on reliability centred maintenance.
* Develop maintenance plans, schedules and implement best practice workflow systems and processes that ensure the site(s) and assets are maintained to meet operational requirements and meet obligations in relation to Australian Standards, manufacturers' recommendations, private hospital licensing and all relevant regulatory and legislative requirements.
* Asset management, job planning and coordination for all preventive maintenance, project and shutdown jobs.
* Monitoring of Building Management Systems (BMS) to ensure optimum performance of Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) across the hospital and actions on alarms.
* Capture plant breakdowns, and actions from plant checks in Maintenance Enterprise Exchange (MEX) and follow up for corrective action.
* Maintain records to support evidence of various activities performed by the Facilities department to support audits.
* Assist the Combined Facilities Manager in preparation of maintenance strategies, Job scopes and service agreements.
* Continuously improve Preventive Maintenance tasks and frequency in line with equipment criticality and cost optimization.
* In conjunction with the Combined Facilities Manager Services, ensure regular team meetings are held with caregivers within the department.
* Assist the Combined Facilities Manager Services in the development of annual budgets, routine capital budgets, asset replacement plan and long-term capital planning.
* Ensure compliance with work programs and regulations, Group policies, building regulations, regulatory and licensing bodies, local authority by-laws, health, safety and welfare regulations, and fire regulations.
This leadership role requires possession of a suitable trade qualification supported by proven experience in a similar position. You will bring extensive knowledge of building codes and Australian Standards, along with sound expertise in hospital engineering and building services.
Strong communication skills are critical, including the ability to cultivate stakeholder partnerships and maintain reliable professional networks.
The ideal candidate will have highly developed analytical skills, with a proven capacity to resolve complex technical issues, support after-hours operations, and respond to call-outs as required.