Lead the Trades. Power the Performance. Keep Healthcare Running.

Drive safe, compliant and high-performing maintenance services across critical health facilities—leading skilled teams, managing assets and ensuring infrastructure performs when it matters most.

Job details

Your new role:

Reporting to the Maintenance Manager, you'll lead and coordinate multi-skilled trades, contractors and apprentices to deliver planned and reactive maintenance across plant, infrastructure and equipment. You'll ensure assets are safe, compliant and operating at peak performance—while managing contracts, guiding teams, improving workflows and partnering with stakeholders to deliver efficient, cost-effective services. With a strong focus on safety, quality and continuous improvement, you'll play a key role in maintaining essential health infrastructure and supporting reliable service delivery across Metro South Health.

About you:

You're a hands-on leader who thrives in complex environments—driving high-performing teams, ensuring compliance and delivering safe, reliable maintenance outcomes. You will bring:

• Proven experience leading multi-skilled trades teams at scale
• Strong knowledge of asset management, compliance and safety standards
• Confident communicator who builds trusted stakeholder relationships
• Solutions-focused with a sharp eye for efficiency and continuous improvement

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 Metro South Health:

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.

We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.

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.

• MS05682256 - Role Description (PDF)
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)