Essential Safety Services Manager

1 month ago

Melbourne, Australia Harris HMC Full time

Lead and grow a new, dynamic Essential Safety Services (ESM) team.
- Be part of a supportive, values-driven team with a small-business feel.
- Continuous learning opportunities to sharpen skills and grow professionally.

Essential Services Manager

**_ About Us_**

Harris HMC is a privately owned, integrated construction and services group, delivering high quality projects and services to the commercial construction industry since 1984. The groups’ end to end capability covers the full asset lifecycle with our three divisions, Construction, Services, and Group Services, specialising in the construction, refurbishment and maintenance of diverse structures and facilities across metropolitan and regional Victoria. We are a large company with a small business culture - real people with true dedication to meeting our commitments and building long term partnerships.

**_ The Opportunity_**

Join us in striving for excellence as part of our Top 1% vision.

Harris HMC have an exciting opportunity to lead and grow a new and dynamic team as our Essential Safety Services Manager. You will be responsible for managing a small but growing team of technicians, playing a pivotal role in establishing and growing in-house services, including Test and Tag, portable fire equipment checks, first aid inspections, and more. The ESM team forms part of our established Services division of over 100 staff specializing in commercial electrical services and building fabric maintenance and projects. This is an exciting opportunity to shape a high-performing team and drive the delivery of essential safety services to both existing and new clients.

**Reporting to the Operations Manager you will**:

- Oversee daily workloads of the ESM team, ensuring seamless client and site liaison
- Be accountable for service delivery and financial outcomes of all ESM team projects
- Support team members to ensure efficient and high-quality job completion
- Drive business growth through sales, leveraging our existing client base and exploring new opportunities
- Develop growth strategies and contribute to business planning
- Assist in tender preparation and submissions
- Recruit, onboard and train new team members as needed
- Provide detailed client reporting and manage invoicing using our job management system (Aroflo)

**To excel in this role, you’ll bring**:

- Strong experience with test and tag services
- Basic Fire services experience such as fire extinguisher / fire blanket testing
- Strong sales skills, someone who is eager to play a key part in growing the ESM team
- Excellent organisational skills to manage the team’s workload and priorities effectively
- Proficient IT skills for preparing detailed reports, Quotes, Invoicing, and for working with our Jobs management system (Aroflo)
- Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills to work closely with other Service and maintenance managers within our Services Division

**While not essential, the following experience will be highly valued**:

- Further Fire experience such as Hose reel or Hydrant testing
- Further ESM experience such as paths of egress / emergency lighting etc
- Experience with online jobs management system such as Aroflo or similar.

**_ Why we think you’ll love working here_**

We’re a team of committed talented and real people driven by excellence who are real, proud, and ambitious.
- We’re a large company, with a small-business culture:_ We’re a bit unique like this. While we might be large, everyone is empowered to deliver and we take real pride in getting the job done, it’s the ethos on what we were founded.
- You will sharpen your tools:_ We really do live and breathe our values, and this is the first one. You will learn lots here, and we’ll learn lots from you. We all keep our skills fresh; we challenge each other to do better, and we share our learnings.
- We’ve got your back:_ This is another of our values and inherent in our culture. We work and grow together and lift each other up, we all pitch in, we value diverse thinking, and we have fun along the way.
- We’re a friendly bunch:_ We work hard but understand how essential work/play balance is. There are regular morning teas, BBQ’s, company-wide fun days and other opportunities to have fun along the way.
- We care:_ Our people are our business. We are committed to supporting the personal, financial and health and wellbeing of our team through a variety of perks, benefits and policies such as discounted health insurance, paid parental leave so you can care for your little people and our Flex For Me Policy for genuine work life balance.

**_ How to apply_**

Thanks for considering us. We hope you’ll join us on our journey to be a Top 1% business in the building industry.

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