Maintenance & Facilities Officer

Full time, ongoing
- Additional annual leave days to coincide with Footy Department breaks
- Total remuneration package up to $90,000

The Essendon Football Club (EFC) is looking for a highly motivated, passionate, and hardworking individual to maintain exceptional standards across all our sites. This is your chance to join a premier AFL team as EFC looks to appoint a Maintenance and Facilities Officer.

**About us**

Essendon FC - "The Bombers" - are a professional sporting team in the Australian Football League. As home to 5 sporting teams, we run our AFL men's and women's programs, VFL women's and men's programs, and a wheelchair football team. But we're more than the game. Not only do we exist to win premierships, we aim to give back to our loyal membership base, and importantly, our community. We understand and take seriously the impact we have on social outcomes and work tirelessly to ensure these are positive, from our partnership with The Long Walk, to our indigenous pathway programs. To do this, we have strong commercial partnerships and innovate with non-traditional ventures, such as our Essendon Education Academy, so that we can deliver world class events, give back to our fans, run community programs and ultimately, strive toward our next premiership.

**About the role**

The Maintenance & Facilities Officer will be responsible for maintaining world-class facilities that EFC personnel, teams and members can be proud of. This includes managing all facility works, repairs and maintenance, regulatory compliance and other facility works, and projects as required.

EFC's current sites include:

- Essendon Football Club NEC Hangar, Melrose Drive, Tullamarine
- Windy Hill Precinct, Napier Street, Essendon including Social Club, Fitness Centre and additional tenancies.
- Melton Country Club

The Maintenance & Facilities Officer operates with a high level of autonomy and is expected to display significant initiative, sound judgement, and reliable management in carrying out the requirements of the position.

Day-to-day you will be required to:

- Performing ad-hoc repairs and maintenance works across EFC's sites
- Attend out of hours call outs relating to security breaches, or other facility related emergencies, from time to time.
- Oversee and action EFC's facilities maintenance, ensuring that all facility service logs are actioned within the required timeframe. This includes sourcing quotes, project management and supervision and delivery. The role includes management of key contractor and stakeholder relationships, ensuring that contractors are delivering their services to the required standard.
- Assist with managing risk, safety and compliance associated with EFC's facilities:

- Undertaking risk analysis appropriate to the Clubs facilities requirements.
- Implement and monitor programs which ensure full compliance by the Club with all relevant local regulations and State and Commonwealth legislative requirements.
- Assist with the annual budget submissions for the Club's facilities requirements

**About you**

If you are a trade qualified and experienced Handyperson with Site, Property or Facility management experience; we want you

You have strong computer literacy, relationship and stakeholder management skills to support key strategic partners and tenants, including Paralympics Australia and Western United Football Club;
You also have a strong understanding of OH&S compliance, evacuation procedures and general facility maintenance practices, and you are reliable, agile and friendly. Due to the nature of our facilities operations, this role will entail some weekend and out of business hours work.

**The Perks**
- ** Our work doesn't always fit the 9 to 5.** Your life doesn't always fit the hours around it. We offer flexibility with hybrid office / home working arrangements and hours.
- **More leave? **Sure EFC People are gifted additional leave during the year to coincide with Footy Department mini breaks or at the discretion of the CEO. EFC People may also choose to purchase up to 10 days per annum additional leave.
- ** Parent friendly - **We put family at the centre of our work. We know they are the centre of yours. We offer paid parental leave to both the primary and secondary carer of a biological or adopted child.
- Access to our **Wellbeing **Partner - Converge to support a Healthy Mind, Healthy Body and Healthy Workplace, along with discounted membership at our Windy Hill Fitness Centre. Plus, our Monthly Empower Hours are your dedicated wellbeing time to use for whatever makes you feel good - join in team sports, group Pilates or undertake some personal development.
- ** Continuous professional development**:

- to compete at our best we have to keep learning. It's an expectation and a commitment we make to everyone at EFC. All EFC people will have access to the Essendon Leadership Academy which consists of formal learning, coaching and mentoring, to suppor