Assets and Essential Services Officer

**About the role**:
This hands-on role manages building maintenance and service contracts across Council facilities, overseeing contractors, ensuring compliance, and coordinating works at key civic sites. With a strong focus on asset management, fire safety, and efficient service delivery, the position drives improvements, supports cleaning operations, and maintains accurate records using Council’s systems.

**What's on offer**:

- a base salary ranging from $84,316 per annum with performance-based increments up to $99,874 per annum, plus 12% super
- 70 hour, 9 day fortnight
- training and development opportunities
- flexible work options for a healthy work/life balance
- generous employment conditions (we have too many to list
- **We are seeking**:

- Hands-on experience in building and construction, backed by a trade qualification and strong knowledge of WHS, environmental standards, and essential services in NSW.
- Confident working with the Building Code of Australia and reading plans, drawings, and contracts.
- Can manage service contracts and coordinate works across multiple civic and community facilities
- Is capable of scheduling and delivering both planned and reactive maintenance efficiently
- Understands fire safety requirements and can manage related compliance and servicing
- Communicates effectively with internal stakeholders and contractors to ensure timely service delivery
- Has experience managing systems and maintenance for automatic doors, security systems, and air-conditioning units

**About us**:

- Located on the picturesque far North Coast of NSW, bordering the Gold Coast.
- The Tweed is a vibrant, diverse location offering a lifestyle near the water, in a rainforest or on a farm.
- Join an **employer of choice**. Professionals Australia (Local Government Engineers’ Association) has named Council the 2021 Employer of Choice for our great employment practices within NSW local government.

**Where it's located**:
This position is based in Murwillumbah, and can be directed to work from any Council work site.

**Position closes**:
**Pre-Employment Screening**:
Tweed Shire Council conducts pre-employment assessments as part of its recruitment process.

Job offers are not made until screening has been completed. Tweed Shire Council uses third-party providers to undertake:

- Background screening - verifies that the information you have provided throughout the recruitment process is true and correct.

**How To Apply**:

- Have your Resume document ready to go.

**If you'd like to COPY and PASTE question fields into a separate Word document to work on over time, please find them listed below**:

- Why are you interested in working at Tweed Shire Council, and what excites you most about this particular opportunity?
- Do you hold a construction trade qualification or equivalent? Please provide details.
- Describe your experience supervising staff, particularly cleaning teams, within civic buildings or similar environments.
- How do you ensure high standards, clear communication, and effective coordination of daily operations?
- What computer programs have you used in your work, and how do you stay organised when working across different sites?
- Do you hold a current drivers license?
- Provide an example of how you’ve managed fire safety systems, lift servicing, or other operational building assets. What steps did you take to ensure compliance and minimise disruption to facility operations?
- How do you plan and schedule maintenance activities across multiple sites while balancing reactive requests and resource availability?_ What tools or systems do you use to manage priorities, and how do you ensure alignment with budget constraints and timelines?_
- How do you manage internal stakeholder expectations when responding to maintenance requests?
- Describe your approach to conducting asset condition assessments and capturing accurate data in asset management systems. _How do you integrate this information into your planning for scheduled maintenance?_

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