Maintenance Officer

**Churches of Christ, Retirement Living, Toowoomba**

**Permanent, Full-time opportunity**

**Imagine a career with Churches of Christ**

Our values encourage us to be accepting of differences and embrace all. Our size and variety offer you real choices and opportunities to grow your career.

We also offer:

- Work Monday-Friday, no weekends;
- Salary-packaging benefits that can increase your take-home pay;
- Five weeks of annual leave and the ability to purchase more;
- Opportunities for professional development;
- Grants (for eligible employees) to assist in formal study;
- Employee discount program through our large network or retail partners (Bupa Health, Medibank, JB HI-FI etc);
- A career where you can make a huge difference in the quality of life for our residents

Established in 1930, We are one of Australia's largest and most diverse not-for-profit organisations.

Active in the areas of children, youth and family services; community housing; retirement living; home care; and residential aged care services, we provide care and compassion to vulnerable people at different stages of their life journey. With over 200 Services in more than 100 communities, we positively impact around 45,000 lives a year.

**Highlighting the importance of this role**

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Maintenance Officer to join our Toowoomba Retirement Living team on a full-time basis, working Monday - Friday, 8am - 4pm.

As the Maintenance Officer, you will be responsible for preventative and corrective maintenance duties across our Toowoomba Retirement Villages. Primarily working out of Nubeena Retirement Village, known for its expansive gardens, you will provide lawn and garden maintenance, tree and shrub pruning, hedging, garden refuse removal and minor maintenance services.

Dependent on business needs you will also be required to work from our surrounding Retirement Villages, Kilkivan and Assisi Court.

**In this varied role you will**:

- Undertake general maintenance work including, but not limited to, repairs, installation and cleaning;
- Undertake maintenance work in accordance with the preventative maintenance schedule;
- Complete all relevant record keeping and administration utilising the organisation's asset management system where appropriate.

**What you can bring to the team**

You are a self-starting and driven individual who loves working collaboratively as part of a team, however, you are also capable of working on your own. With your highly developed customer focus and excellent service skills you resolve gardening and maintenance issues as they arise.

You have proven knowledge and physical capacity to use and maintain equipment as required by the role. Your ability to work autonomously and manage your own time is exceptional. You have a welcoming, caring, compassionate nature and are ever ready to provide support.

**To be suited to this position ideally you will have**:

- Demonstrated experience in a maintenance role (previous retirement living experience highly regarded) with physical capacity to carry out maintenance duties as required;
- Home and/or garden maintenance certificate would be an advantage;
- Ability to maintain and develop relationships with internal and external services providers;
- Applied knowledge of Workplace Health & Safety requirements, or ability to acquire same within one month of employment;
- Possess a current Queensland driver's licence;
- National Police Certificate or the ability to acquire.

Importantly, you will be someone who closely aligns with our organisational values of: Unconditional Love, Continual Innovation, Mutual Trust, Wise Stewardship and Safety.
- Under Churches of Christ policy and/or the applicable public health directions, team members are required to be vaccinated for Covid-19. As part of the recruitment processes we ask that you provide evidence that your vaccination meets the requirements of Churches of Christ policy or the applicable public health direction._

**To apply**

**Applications will be assessed as received