Program Manager, Building Services Commissioning

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time

Position Classification: Health Mgr Lvl 5

Remuneration: $166,678 - $186,448 (plus super and leave loading) 

Hours Per Week: 40

Requisition ID: REQ608081

About the opportunity

The Program Manager Building Service Commissioning plays a key role in ensuring safe and effective building operations of new healthcare facilities by overseeing the planning and validation of the commissioning process prior to handover to Health Entities. The role provides technical advice and guidance across all commissioning aspects of Electrical, Mechanical, Building Management System (BMS), Hydraulic, Vertical Transport, Dry Fire and other relevant Health-specific systems to ensure compliance with the contract, specification, relevant HI technical requirements and NSW Health technical guidelines.

The role also oversees the project management aspects and technical process flow, that includes project planning, partner negotiation, and milestone reporting of building commissioning outcomes as per HI's requirements. Works collaboratively with key stakeholders including NSW Ministry of Health (MoH), Health Entities (HEs), Principal Contractors (PCs) and Project Managers (PMs) to foster a continual improvement in the building commissioning process and embed standardisation across the portfolio wherever possible.

This is a full-time ongoing position. Remuneration will be determined with the successful candidate. Please note that as Health Infrastructure is an organisation of NSW Health, the successful applicant must reside in NSW or be willing to relocate if appointed.

This recruitment may be used to create a Talent Pool for similar future roles (ongoing or temporary) that may arise over the next 18 months.

About you

We are looking for a Program Manager, Building Service Commissioning professional to join our small, hardworking and collaborative team.

In this role you will bring extensive operational experience in managing healthcare facilities or similar complex environments, with a strong understanding of technical commissioning requirements in a construction environment.

You will provide expert technical support across a range of building services – including electrical, mechanical, medical gas, hydraulic, lifts, controls and fire to capital projects.

You will work closely with various project managers, builders, consultant engineers and local health district stakeholders, ensuring compliance related to contract, scope and/or the relevant standards.

The successful person must have high level technical knowledge of the standards and the applicability in health care setting. The role provides oversight of design departures and value engineering, and therefore you must be able to assess the impact to compliance, operations, cost and lifecycle.

About us

Health Infrastructure delivers sustainable and innovative infrastructure solutions to meet the health care needs of NSW communities now and into the future. We collaborate with government and industry to transform public health facilities across NSW. Outside of health we contribute longer term benefits to NSW communities including the creation of jobs and increased opportunities for local businesses.

About what's important to us

At Health Infrastructure, we are committed to cultivating a workplace culture where diversity, inclusion and flexibility is part of the norm. 

To find out more about Health Infrastructure's values and ways of working, click here.

Want to know more?

1.    Please click here for a copy of the role description.

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3.    For more information on how to apply for a role in NSW Health click here.

4.    For enquiries, please contact HI Employment Team via HI-

About the application process

•    Click Apply to commence your application.

•    Create or log into your profile (find out more about applying for a role at NSW Health here).

•    Upload an up-to-date resume (max 3 pages) 

•    Upload a cover letter (max 2 pages) outlining how you meet the role requirements and capabilities as specified in the role description.

•    Respond to the target questions within the application. Applications that do not meet these requirements will not be considered.

Target questions:

Question 1: You are working with the principal contractor, and it becomes clear that the commissioning deliverables are not well understood. Can you describe how you will manage this in scenario.

Question 2: The Local Health District (the client) raises concerns about the functionality of a system during handover, can you describe how you will address this? What risks would you consider to be most important and why?

Applications close 11:59pm: Monday, 6th October 2025