Trade Supervisor

Your new Role:

This position is responsible for managing and supervising internal and external trades teams, apprentices, and contractors to perform planned and corrective maintenance, ensuring Metro South Health facilities are maintained safely, efficiently, and cost-effectively. It also includes oversight of all High and Low Voltage electrical networks and equipment, such as substations, switchboards, UPS systems, and specialized devices, while upholding safety, quality, and customer service standards.

About You:

You will embrace Metro South Health's values and be motivated to lead and support our team. Bringing your expertise and experience in electrical trades supervision, you'll play a key role in maintaining safe, reliable, and efficient facility operations. You will have:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively manage teams and contractors
• Proven ability to adapt to shifting priorities and meet tight maintenance deadlines
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to address technical and operational challenges
• A collaborative and flexible approach to working with diverse trades teams to achieve maintenance goals
• Effective interpersonal and relationship management skills to foster positive teamwork and stakeholder engagement

Highly desirable qualifications include:

• • HV Switching (Must complete within the first 12 months in the role)
• Certificate III instrumentation
• Working in Hazardous Areas

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What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

Assets and Infrastructure Division:

Metro South Maintenance Services are the incumbent maintenance provider for Metro South Health Hospitals and Health Service (MSH) Facilities, with the primary objective to manage the corrective and preventative maintenance for all MSH infrastructure and facilities. Metro South's asset management objectives define the approach for delivering maintenance outcomes and the role of Maintenance management in supporting the achievement of the organisational objectives.

QEII Hospital, a place of opportunity to make a difference and grow your career

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are Metro South Health:

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.

We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.

We are better together.