Requisition ID: REQ666378
Location: Wagga Wagga Base Hospital
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Hours per week: 38
Position Classification: Health Manager - Level 1
Remuneration: $87,813.00 – $116,824.19 per annum (+ super + 17.5% leave loading)
Applications Close: 3 July 2026
Vaccination Category: A
Murrumbidgee Local Health District (MLHD) is seeking an experienced maintenance professional to lead and manage maintenance services across the Wagga Work Centre (Wagga Wagga, Junee, Coolamon, Ardlethan and Temora).
About the Opportunity:
This is a role for someone who thrives on variety, enjoys solving complex problems, and takes pride in keeping critical health facilities running at their best. You’ll lead a skilled team of tradespeople, support staff and contractors, ensuring our buildings, plant and equipment are safe, reliable and ready to support clinical services every day.
You will be responsible to:
- Lead and develop a high-performing team
- Inspire, guide and support a team of trades, admin and support staff.
- Build capability, mentor emerging talent and create a culture of accountability, safety and continuous improvement.
- Manage recruitment, performance, rosters, leave and on call arrangements to ensure reliable service coverage.
Drive Excellence
- Schedule preventative, corrective and reactive maintenance across multiple sites.
- Prioritise work effectively and keep operations running smoothly in a fast paced, high pressure environment.
- Use AFMO (Tririga) to allocate, track and monitor work, ensuring tasks meet performance indicators.
- Work collaboratively with the Asset Management Team to strengthen asset information, documentation and reporting.
- Identify opportunities to streamline workflows, modernise systems and improve service delivery.
Champion safety, compliance and quality
- Work collaboratively with the Asset Management Team to strengthen asset information, documentation and reporting.
- Identify opportunities to streamline workflows, modernise systems and improve service delivery.
- Drive excellence in procurement activities, ensuring compliance with governance frameworks and achieving value for money.
- Support capital works, projects and Build effective partnerships
- Provide specialist technical advice to redevelopment and construction projects.
- Supervise minor capital works and assist the Capital Works team as required
- Build relationships to lead and participate in clear communications and service alignment.
- Manage key contracts, monitor performance and take proactive action when improvements are needed .Work closely with clinical teams, managers and external agencies to deliver responsive, customer focused maintenance services.
About You:
You’re someone who brings energy, initiative and a practical mindset to every challenge. You enjoy leading people, improving systems and finding smarter ways to get things done.:
- Relevant tertiary or trade-based qualifications and/or extensive experience in the management of maintenance in a health or other critical environment
- Strong leadership skills with experience motivating teams in a busy service environment.
- Solid knowledge of plant and equipment maintenance, including planning and scheduling.
- A clear understanding of the regulatory environment for building, plant and equipment maintenance.
- Confident computer skills, including Microsoft Office and maintenance systems. Demonstrated excellence in communication and interpersonal, with the ability to build strong relationships across diverse teams. Demonstrated organisational and time management skills with the ability to prioritise workload to meet timeframes and competing demands
- National Police Check – Aged Care (or ability to acquire)
- Vaccination Category A compliance (or ability to comply)
A current Class C driver’s licence and willingness to travel within the Health Service
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What MLHD Offers:
- A leadership role that directly supports safe, high quality healthcare across the Murrumbidgee region.
- Salary Packaging options up to $20,600 per annum tax-free for living expenses, plus novated leasing for a new car
- 17.5% leave loading
- A 9 day working fortnight
- Access to EAP, wellbeing programs and supports for you and your family
- A supportive environment with opportunities for professional growth and development
How to Apply:
If you are ready to take the next step in your facilities management career and make a meaningful impact across the Murrumbidgee region, we would love to hear from you.
Need more information?
1) Click here for the Position Description
2) Find out more about applying for this position
For role related queries or questions contact the Hiring Manager on [email protected] .Your application will require you to include a cover letter, resume and complete application responses addressing the selection criteria.
MLHD welcomes applications from people of all backgrounds and is committed to building a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and the LGBTIQ+ community. If you identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, you can access recruitment application support through the Stepping Up initiative.
This is a NSW Health Category A position which requires immunisation and screening for certain diseases. The full list of requirements are outlined in the NSW Health OASV Policy (Page 11). You will be required to complete the OASV Undertaking/ Declaration Form and TB Assessment Tool during the recruitment process. Please upload this with your application along with any other vaccination evidence that you may have.
