Facilities Coordinator

At C&K, our purpose is to make a positive impact on children's lives. It's what we've been doing for more than 115 years. Through evidence-based thinking, hard work and true compassion, we've built a trusted reputation as Queensland's leading provider of early childhood education. And as a child safe organisation, we put children's safety and wellbeing at the heart of everything we do, creating nurturing spaces where children can learn, explore, play and grow.

**As a Facilities Coordinator your duties will include**:

- Coordinate facilities team projects.
- Assist in the collation of asset data and documentation of maintenance plans.
- Assist with the preparation of the facilities team budgets.
- Monitor and report on projects to complete on time and to budget.
- Develop and write facilities team procedures.
- Ensure the property records are updated as a result of implemented projects.
- Facilitate continuous improvement projects in the facilities team.
- Ensure all projects have the required internal and external regulatory approvals, before, during, and after project completion.
- "I love being part of an organisation whose vision is to see a state 'where every child flourishes'. I value the opportunity to contribute, even in a small way, to the impactful work that is being done in the early childhood education sector." - Alex Bron, Management Accountant_

**Find Your Better Way and Enjoy the Benefits**

Every C&K career helps children belong and grow. We'll set you up for success with a range of benefits, programs and opportunities to help you earn, be well and grow.
- Find a healthy work-life balance with family-friendly priority access to C&K childcare centres and discounts of up to 35% of the gap fee.
- Be well and prosper with an Employee Assistance Program that includes financial counselling, nutrition coaching, individual counselling and specialist support for LGBTIQA+ and First Nations individuals.
- BUPA health insurance discounts
- Funded Blue Card and National Police Check.
- Take your career to new heights with professional development opportunities.
- Support the growth of our teams and earn a $1000 referral bonus reward.
- Plus so much more.

**What you'll bring**:

- Extensive operational experience with the delivery of capital projects preferably working within the areas of properties and/or facilities. Experience in the early childhood sector is desirable.
- Knowledge of legislative policies and procedures as it relates to building codes or an ability to acquire this knowledge where necessary. Experience in early childhood sector regulations is desirable.
- Demonstrated project and time management skills as they relate to delivering facilities projects on time and within budget.
- Demonstrated interpersonal, oral & written communication skills including ability to effectively build relationships and consult with internal/external stakeholders and ability to negotiate effectively with lessors, licensees, stakeholders and a range of Government Departments.
- Initiative, multi-tasking, and an ability to prioritise tasks, and organisational skills.

If you're committed to guiding children's early learning and development, we'll set you up for success

We strongly uphold our child safety policies and procedures. To thrive and succeed in this role, you will have:

- Valid Blue Card or Exemption Card.
- Current Police Check

You will bring a passion for achieving long-lasting, high-quality outcomes for children, their families and the community alongside a team-player mindset - when you join C&K, you join a village of good-hearted, talented people, so you can lean on them as they lean on you.

**Join us and find a better way with C&K - for children, for you, for always.**
- C&K is a child-safe organisation and all C&K employees are required to undergo a police check and not be a '_Restricted Person_' or Suspended Educator under the QLD Blue Card System._
- We welcome applicants who identify as an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, have a Culturally and /or Linguistically Diverse background and/or those with additional needs._