Lead Maintenance Excellence in a Major Health Facility

Oversee skilled trades teams and contractors to deliver safe, compliant and high-quality maintenance across critical health infrastructure, ensuring facilities remain safe, functional and reliable for patients and staff.

Job details

Your new role:

In this leadership role, you will coordinate maintenance operations and lead a multi-skilled team to ensure health facility infrastructure and assets are safe, compliant and operating efficiently.

• Lead, supervise and coordinate internal trades, apprentices, assistants and contractors delivering planned and reactive maintenance across plant, infrastructure and equipment.
• Ensure assets are compliant with statutory requirements, codes and Queensland Health policies through effective testing, maintenance and asset management practices.
• Provide expert advice on asset condition, maintenance strategies and infrastructure planning in collaboration with facility stakeholders.
• Manage contractor performance, LOTO processes, compliance registers and operational systems to support safe, efficient service delivery.
• Drive team performance, safety culture and continuous improvement initiatives while supporting operational planning and on-call maintenance coverage.

About you:

You are a skilled maintenance leader who can guide teams, manage complex assets and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver safe, reliable facility operations.

• Experienced leader of multi-disciplinary trades teams in complex environments such as hospitals, large facilities or critical infrastructure.
• Strong communicator with the ability to build relationships and influence diverse internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated knowledge of asset management, maintenance planning, compliance requirements and risk management.
• Technically skilled in a building trade discipline (e.g., plumbing, carpentry, painting or similar) with experience overseeing plant and equipment maintenance.
• Committed to safety, continuous improvement and delivering high-quality, cost-effective maintenance services in a busy public sector environment.

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What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

About the Assets and Infrastructure Division

Metro South Maintenance Services are the incumbent maintenance provider for Metro South Health Hospitals and Health Service (MSH) Facilities, with the primary objective to manage the corrective and preventative maintenance for all MSH infrastructure and facilities. Metro South's asset management objectives define the approach for delivering maintenance outcomes and the role of Maintenance management in supporting the achievement of the organisational objectives.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• MS03678409 Role Description (PDF)
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)