Property and Facilities Officer

About Role

This role will support and undertake property and facilities activities delivered by Workskil Australia's Facilities team. Some of the specific activities include managing and maintaining Facilities Helpdesk requests, daily management of our vehicle fleet, coordinating maintenance and repairs of our sites.

This role is being offered on a full time, ongoing basis and located at our Head Office in Melrose Park.

You'll also experience the work/life balance that comes with working a 9-day fortnight, with a dedicated and fixed day off every second week.

About You

To be successful in the role you will be able to demonstrate good Knowledge in:

• Actioning and maintaining Facilities Helpdesk requests.
• Assist with the management of Workskil Australia's vehicle fleet, including adhering to the service schedules, repairing, and claiming insurance, monitoring fuel use.
• Site maintenance and repairs.
• Site security, security issues, monitoring security systems and duress alarms.
• Procuring, and organising building works, site configuration changes and other property related projects (e.g. office equipment purchase and disposal).
• Administration of site lease agreements, maintenance of site records, setup, renewal, relocation and winding-up of sites.
• Implementation and maintenance of key supplier contracts for Facilities-related expenditure.
• Maintenance and monitoring of assets, including tagging of assets, information about location, condition of assets, warranties, manufacturer details, vendor details and purchase price.
• Contract management processes and recording documentation in the applicable systems.

You will also be required to:

Have previous demonstrated experience working within a similar role.

• Have proficiency in Microsoft Office products, specifically Excel and Word.

About Us

Workskil Australia is a national not-for-profit and charitable organisation, with 40 proud years of supporting Australians to achieve sustained economic and social self-reliance. We do this by providing a range of employment, work experience, disability, youth, housing, Indigenous and community services across New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia and Victoria.

We promote a positive team culture where high performance can thrive. We value excellent customer service, integrity and honesty in our employees. We look for employees who have a genuine passion for working with those in need, are results-focused and can contribute to a strong team. In return for your truly valued contribution, we will support your ongoing career development and offer a friendly, supportive & innovative environment for you to thrive.

We work hard every day to:

• Work with our Customers to secure great long-term job opportunities.
• Meet the labour needs of business and industry through quality recruitment services at no cost.
• Assist businesses with diversifying their workforce.
• Provide specialist employment and community services to people seeking work, including people with mental illness, injury or disability and Indigenous Australians.
• Deliver work experience projects to the community.

Our values remain at the heart of everything we do, and we strive to conduct our business with the highest degree of care, integrity, respect, honesty and service. We believe that the care, respect and high level of service we give to all of our customers is our key point of difference.

Remuneration

A competitive salary will be negotiated commensurate with skills and experience. As Workskil Australia is a public benevolent institution, we can also offer a portion of the salary through tax effective salary packaging. With the Wellbeing Day benefit, you will still receive the remuneration of a full-time employee in addition to the ability to salary package.

About your Application

For your application, please include both a cover letter and resume. Your letter should set out why you are the appropriate candidate for the role. For ease of upload, we encourage you to combine these into one file as a pdf or word document. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Prior to an offer of employment being made, candidates must provide authority for a Federal Police Clearance and other checks that may be a requirement of the position. To learn more about working at Workskil Australia head to

We are actively looking to fill this role and reserve the right to shortlist and interview applicants whilst this advertisement is open so encourage you to submit your application at your earliest opportunity.

Workskil Australia is an inclusive, equal opportunity employer and we particularly welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, applicants from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and applicants who have a disability. We deliver a range of employment and community services to children, young people and their families and are committed to creating a safe environment for children and young people in the delivery of these services.