Maintenance Supervisor

**Maintenance Supervisor**

**_ Permanent Full-Time Opportunity_**

**About the Role**

As a Maintenance Supervisor, you will undertake and manage all engineering and building maintenance activities to ensure that all building, plant and equipment is maintained to an acceptable safe and operational standard. This may include supervising and retaining maintenance contractors or staff as required, to ensure provision of an efficient and effective comprehensive engineering maintenance service that complies with legislative standards, corporate policy guidelines and approved Hospital budgets.

**In this role, you will work across multiple sites in the Newcastle region in the future, but will be based at Lake Macquarie.** You will report to the Regional Maintenance Manager.

**About You**
- Qualification as a Trades person
- Experience in and willingness to work across trade areas within skill levels
- Flexibility to participate in afterhours on-call service performing after hours maintenance and emergency tasks as required
- Flexibility to work across various site in region
- Previous experience in commercial facility maintenance, preferably hospitals
- Previous experience in a leadership and supervisory role
- Proven experience in external contractor management including negotiation of maintenance contracts
- Experience managing defect and warranty periods
- Ability to effectively oversee planned maintenance programs and reactive maintenance tasks
- Demonstrated understanding of OH&S requirements
- Knowledge and understanding of accreditation / certification processes
- Experience in and ongoing commitment to Quality Improvement principles
- Proven ability to work independently whilst also contributing to a team and working towards
- independent, team and organisational objectives
- Good mechanical aptitude and demonstrated problem solving skills
- Effective interpersonal and communication skills
- Demonstrated commitment to customer service
- Sound level of computer literacy skills

**_Desirable _**
- Previous experience in Hospital maintenance role
- Qualifications in Management
- Qualifications in Fire Safety Training
- Experience with relevant system (ie. Engineering Work Management System [EWMS] or similar)

**About Ramsay**

Lake Macquarie and the Hunter region offer wonderful lifestyle’s for families/singles wishing to relocate. The Hunter Valley, Port Stephens, Newcastle and Lake Macquarie are all at the doorstep.

Lake Macquarie Private Hospital is a 187-bed acute Advanced Surgical and Medical Hospital situated on the Pacific Highway at Gateshead, 15 kms south of the Newcastle CBD. Specialties include Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Orthopaedics, Urology, General Surgery (including Colorectal), Robitics, Breast Surgery, Plastics, Oral Maxillofacial Surgery, Vascular and Oncology.

The hospital is owned and operated by Ramsay Health Care, a global operator of private hospitals and primary care clinics with 72 Australian sites employing over 30,000 people. We have been focused on delivering high-quality patient care and practising the Ramsay Way philosophy of _‘People Caring for People’_ since 1972. Benefits of working with us include;
- Professional Development - Grow your career across our national network
- Extensive Employee assistance program
- Industry discounts across private health insurance, retail services, financial services and more.

**Requirements**:
Everyone who joins Ramsay:

- Must be **vaccinated against Covid-19** a vaccine approved by the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation
- Must provide a **National Police** check conducted within the previous 12 months
- According to the role, Ramsay may require a **Working-With-Children** check and **proof of immunisation** against infectious diseases

**For enquiries, please contact**:
Michael Cunninghame, Regional Maintenance Manager