Facility Maintenance Manager

  • Full-time

Company Description

Do you have a passion for shaping and influencing company culture? If so, we want you to join our team!  

Sodexo provides a range of services at remote locations across Australia, servicing both on-shore and off-shore sites, in difficult and challenging environments. At Sodexo, our Energy & Resources segment serves four markets: Mining, Offshore & Marine, Onshore Energy, and Engineering & Construction Projects. Our growing team of employees is dedicated to improving productivity, building meaningful client relationships, reducing on-site problems and improving quality of life for the thousands of Australians who call our remote sites home.

Job Description

Within Western Australia, Sodexo is responsible for the operations, maintenance, and refurbishment of non-process infrastructure to clients within the mining and oil & gas sector. Sodexo plays a critical role in ensuring the resource sector can operate by providing quality catering, hospitality, and facilities maintenance services.

Sodexo manage one of the world’s largest integrated facility maintenance contracts and due to a business restructure, we now how two vacant positions for Facility Maintenance Managers to come onboard.

These two roles are crucial to the continued success of or Facility Maintenance team. The role will have accountability for ensuring that stakeholders understand their current performance as well as developing pathways to scale and replicate success. You will be working with the Regional Operations Leadership Team to develop and implement business initiatives, process development and process management to drive performance.

Main Duties

  • Manage successful delivery of hard facilities management services as the primary role and provision of support services as required to the soft services delivery under the IFMS project.
  • Lead, develop and drive financial and service improvement initiatives based on knowledge of clients’ and consumers’ needs.
  • Lead, develop and drive strategy initiatives and offers based on deep knowledge of clients’ and consumers’ needs and focused on Quality of Life to deliver sustainable profitable growth and a safe working environment.
  • Drive strategic alignment and direction, optimising processes to maximise performance.
  • Lead delivery of agreed asset upkeep standards, in line with client management plans.
  • Drive asset maintenance improvement with underperforming teams and stakeholders.
  • Develop sustainable preventive maintenance and predictive maintenance methodologies to minimise the level of unscheduled events.
  • Develop and maintain strategic partnerships with clients, ensuring alignment of our services meet the needs and long-term vision of our clients.
  • Design and facilitate stakeholder discussions, workshops, meetings, and reviews to optimize performance and risk management.
  • Lead and facilitate client discussions, ensure prompt and professional communication of all serious maintenance issues, response and progress in resolving the issue.
  • Understand the contractual obligations of the clients’ contract terms to achieve 100% compliance and meet the clients’ and Sodexo Remote Site’s financial goals and expectations.
  • Leverage data provided from different systems, monitor and analyse business performance, identify and implement opportunities to improve the service performance through specific interventions so that the Business, Financial and operational performance targets are met or exceeded.
  • Provide interpretation, analysis and reporting of results and supporting documentation where appropriate
  • Develop and drive cost saving initiatives, with specific reference to quotation and development of new works projects and develop budgets for Facilities Management operations.
  • Ensure regional compliance of all statutory, legal requirements, including Local regulations, certifications, and licensing requirements.
  • Drive strategic regional process compliance alignment and direction, optimising processes to maximise performance.

Qualifications

  • A strong track record of managing facility maintenance operations and demonstrated ability to increase efficiency, improve service, and effectively manage resources across multiple sites in the facility maintenance industry segment.
  • Proven success working in a dynamic, complex and evolving environment with many moving parts.
  • Possess functional and technical knowledge and skills to execute the job at a high level of accomplishment.
  • A strategic mind-set, anticipates and interprets market changes, ensuring that the organisation’s offerings and approach to the client are tailored to suit the competitive environment
  • Ensures the successful execution of company agreed strategic projects which enhances efficiency, productivity and profitability in line with agreed business plans
  • Demonstrated commercial awareness and experience setting and managing large budgets. Contractually astute with the ability to make commercial decisions that mitigate risk and maximise profitability for the business unit.
  • Experience with data, tracking expenses and income, figuring percentages for taxes, sales revenue and inventory shrinkage.
  • Proven track record of developing and maintaining business relationships with a broad set of internal and external stakeholders.
  • Outstanding communication and presentation skills.
  • Strong leadership experience in managing complex, large-scale teams or workforces.
  • Builds and develops effective and highly performing teams, strengthening organisational capability.

Additional Information

Why choose Sodexo?

Sodexo is a people business, employing over 400,000 people worldwide and thousands in Australia. Our skilled trades are critical to keep our facilities running like clockwork on remote sites and villages. We are committed to providing opportunities for trades who are as committed to safety and service as we are!     

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater because we believe our everyday actions have a big impact. With us, you belong in a company that allows you to act with purpose and thrive in your own way. We are always looking for people to join our team and help us create a lasting impact on individuals, society, and the planet.

At Sodexo, we are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer and encourage applications from all applicants regardless of age, race, sex, ethnicity, religion and beliefs and people with disabilities.   

We offer a competitive salary, many training, upskilling and development opportunities and an outstanding benefits and recognition program!    


This is a permanent, full-time role based out of our office in Balcatta with regular travel required to our remote sites. On offer is the opportunity to join an international leader in facilities management that promotes growth and development, offers flexible working arrangement, and empowers you to take ownership of your role.

If you want to join an employer that promotes and encourages growth and personal develop while working in a supportive, inclusive, and high preforming team then please click Apply and send through your resume or to discuss, please call Chris Cantatore on 0409 228 477.

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