Technical Officer

Division: Homes NSW
- Location: Parramatta, NSW, AU, 2150
- Req ID: 78013

**Technical Officer**

**Location - Parramatta**

**Employment type - Temporary till December 2027**

**Salary - GR 5/6 $99,938.00 to $110,271.00 plus superannuation**

**Your role**

The NSW Government is determined to make NSW a place where everyone has access to safe and secure housing, and where experiences of homelessness are rare, brief and non-recurring.

Homes NSW is a division of the Department of Communities and Justice. It brings together the housing and homelessness functions of the Department of Communities and Justice, the NSW Land and Housing Corporation, Aboriginal Housing Office and key worker housing functions from across government all under one roof.
- This is a critical role that will provide quality housing solutions to teacher and police housing tenants through the delivery of efficient and effective customer and facilities management services.

**What you’ll do**
- Using your fine-tuned engagement and communication skills your role will include:

- Deliver a range of maintenance and refurbishment works directly or through third party service providers to agreed budgets, timeframes and quality.
- Monitor and report on the performance of external service providers to ensure that service delivery is to agreed standards and within contractual obligations, budgets and programs.
- Maintain and update the Asset Register and service platforms (eg Fulcrum) to ensure they reflect the current status of assets and properties within the assigned asset portfolio.
- Providing informed recommendations through a background in construction and management to deliver timely, cost-effective facilities management functions with conflicting priorities in locations that are often remote and difficult to service
- Maintaining a balance between operating a commercially viable property portfolio and providing an acceptable level of accommodation and maintenance service for teacher tenants in remote locations.

**What we’re looking for**
- The ability to facilitate and maintain positive relationships with service providers including managing agents, tenants and contractors
- Facilities Management experience with experience over several sites. Experience traveling across regional/remote areas will be well regarded
- Superior communication skills and the ability to engage with a range of stakeholders
- Exceptional organisational skills in a similar environment
- NSW White card is essential
- Download the role description.

**What We Offer**
- We offer a variety of benefits, including:

- A challenging and rewarding career
- Flexible, autonomous work environment
- Competitive pay and conditions
- Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities
- Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.
- Want more information? Visit our website to see more information on Working for us.

**We do work that really matters**
- Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It’s work that really matters.

**Are you ready to join us?**
- Click apply, attach a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) outlining how you meet the requirements of the role as well as an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages).

**Applications close**Wednesday 8 October at 11:59pm AEST.

**Got a question?**
- Visit Recruitment adjustments on the DCJ website to learn more.

**Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit**
- We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.
- To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit Inclusion and diversity on the DCJ website.

**Other Information**
- A talent pool may be created for future ongoing and temporary roles and is valid for a period of up to 18 months.
- This role will require a NSW Police Check to be completed. Please visit the link below for further information.

**_ The Welcome Experience_**:

- The careers site currently promotes this service on the ‘Discover roles with DCJ in regional NSW’ page.