Senior Facility and Assets Manager
Senior Facility and Assets Manager
Are you ready to lead a team and make a real impact across South Australia’s essential government services? Ventia is hiring an experienced Senior Facility Asset Manager (SFAM) to join our dynamic team and lead maintenance delivery and minor projects within the Education portfolio, while guiding and empowering a team of Facility Asset Managers under your leadership.
The Across Government Facilities Management Arrangement (AGFMA) provides facilities management services for more than 5,000 Government-owned sites across 48 agencies in South Australia. Ventia partners with local small and medium businesses to deliver these services 7 days a week, 365 days a year, ensuring communities have access to safe, reliable, and well-maintained facilities.
About the Role
This role offers the opportunity to combine strategic oversight with hands-on operational excellence, delivering high-quality outcomes for one of South Australia’s most vital service sectors.
Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Leadership – Lead and mentor a ‘pod’ team of Facility Asset Managers (FAMs) across selected areas of South Australia
- Stakeholder Engagement – Build strong relationships with government agencies, subcontractors, and internal teams.
- Maintenance Oversight – Oversee planned and breakdown maintenance and manage minor projects.
- Operational Excellence – strive towards operational excellence through business improvement in collaboration with other teams.
- Project Delivery – Manage budgets, KPIs, and ensure timely, high-quality service delivery.
- Travel – This role will require travel for the purpose of site management, stakeholder engagement and team leadership.
Benefits
- Competitive salary: $135k – $145k TFR (inclusive of 12% super) plus Tool of Trade vehicle.
- Permanent full-time role based across our Wakefield Street (Adelaide CBD) and North Plympton offices.
- Be part of a values-driven organisation that champions diversity and inclusion.
- Flexible and supportive work environment.
- Access to a variety of health and wellbeing initiatives including discounted health insurance, and our employee assistance program.
- VenPerks – Our employee benefits platform. Access discounts at over 450 retailers across Australia.
About You
- Proven leadership experience in facilities management or related fields.
- Strong project management skills and ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Trade qualifications or business-related qualifications (Property, FM, CM, PM) desirable.
- Current driver’s licence, Working with Children Check, and National Police Check.
About Ventia
As a leading services provider, we maintain, operate, and manage the essential infrastructure that makes modern life possible across Australia and New Zealand. With more than 35,000 employees and subcontractors across 400 sites, joining Ventia means becoming part of a team that values its people, supports career growth, and helps everyone go further towards their full potential.
Our commitment to Fairness, Inclusion and Respect shapes how we lead, collaborate, hire and support one another. We welcome applications from people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all genders, identities, sexual orientations, beliefs and caring responsibilities. We are dedicated to providing an accessible recruitment process and encourage you to request adjustments at any stage.
How to apply
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Position Reference Number: 167963