Area Asset Manager

At our core, RSL LifeCare provides care and services to veterans and seniors who live in our communities or are receiving support at home. Our vision of creating proud communities living their best lives is at the heart of everything we do as we continue to build upon our legacy of supporting veterans and their families for more than 100 years.

With a mission to create proud communities living their best lives, we're now seeking a committed and strategic Area Asset Manager (you may know this role as Facilities Manager or Building Services Manager) to play a key role in managing and enhancing our flag ship site, the RSL LifeCare ANZAC Village in Narrabeen on Sydney's stunning northern beaches.

Reporting to the Regional Asset Manager, this role represents an exciting opportunity to apply your expertise in property and asset management in a complex, meaningful environment—one where your decisions contribute directly to safety, compliance, customer satisfaction, and the long-term success of our residential and community-based services.

As our new Area Asset Manager, your focus will be on:

• Optimising asset performance ensuring safety and quality compliance, and lifecycle cost performance based upon sound asset management principles, annual business planning and budget formulation

• Implementing minor capital works, refurbishments, and maintenance strategies

• Embedding sustainability and risk management into assets and their operations

• Partnering with stakeholders to align built-form outcomes with resident and operational needs

• Supporting the implementation of a forward-looking and market leading Asset Management Framework

You will work closely with Compliance, Maintenance, and Refurbishment teams to deliver coordinated, high-quality outcomes. This is not just about maintaining assets—it's about enabling environments where residents and employees can thrive.

To succeed in this role, we'd expect you to have: 

• Significant and demonstrable experience in a building/facilities management role including project management (concurrently managing various aspects of work on site)

• Knowledge of aged care maintenance operations and standards, including safety and safe working requirements would be highly advantageous, though not essential.

• High levels of communication, people and contractor management, influencing and negotiation skills

• Experience working with; multiple trades, building and contractor risk, WHS, essential fire safety measures, mechanical, electrical and plumbing services etc

• Demonstrated history of co-ordinating and deploying contracted resources to achieve business outcomes, including emergency response work

• Australian work rights and a valid Australian driving licence 

RSL LifeCare offer a range of benefits including:

• Not-for-profit tax benefits - salary packaging of up to $15,900 per year. This allows you to reduce your taxable income by receiving part of your salary as tax-free benefits like super contributions, car leasing and more, plus $2600 meal entertainment card annually

• Fitness Passport

• Staff discounts across 700 select retail stores through Maxxia Rewards

• Leave Loading - 17.5% pay top up on paid leave

• The opportunity to work with a Property team that is genuinely passionate, supportive and collaborative with each other, our people and our residents

• Career development and progression opportunities across all areas of RSL LifeCare

Our commitment to diversity:
We are proud to stand for our unique values: Do the Right Thing, Aim Higher, Care from the Heart, and Act as One team.

We welcome and encourage applications from people across our diverse community, especially from Veterans, current serving ADF personnel, their families and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants. We believe everyone has the right to feel safe, respected, valued and heard regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity or disability.

It is a mandatory requirement for a team member working in the Aged Care sector to have a valid Police Check or a valid National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) check, or potentially both, to undertake the inherent requirements of the role.  Clearances must be verified prior to commencing employment with RSL LifeCare.