Position Title: Manager, Maintenance

About the role

We’re looking for an experienced Manager for our Maintenance team, based at our Melbourne head office. This role will lead our team of Building Managers and Maintenance Coordinators, ensuring Unison’s properties are maintained to our standards quickly and efficiently, and with quality and care for our renters.

Day-to-day, you’ll oversee the planned and responsive maintenance operations of the team in line with our compliance and regulatory obligations, act as an escalation point for troubleshooting and for critical on-call issues, and maintain open lines of communication with our contractors, renters and teams.

This is a 12 month fixed-term opportunity with a salary of approximately $126,000 per annum (plus super and leave loading).

You will need to be willing and able to travel to other Unison site offices including at short notice and sometimes on planned work from home days if there is a property related issue. The role has an after hours on call escalation requirement.

What we’re looking for

We’re looking for someone who brings experience in:

• Responsive and planned maintenance in residential rental properties
• Calm and considered, mature approach
• Good at quickly building effective working relationships
• Excellent written and verbal proactive communication
• Able to work independently with limited direction
• Able to handle after hours property emergencies, escalate appropriately and follow existing policy & procedure

Desirable:

• Experience which demonstrates ability to work with social housing renters

Why Join Us

At Unison, we believe in rewarding your dedication with benefits that truly make a difference. You’ll enjoy access to:

• Rostered days off to recharge
• Salary packaging of up to $15,900 tax-free to increase your take home pay
• Five weeks of annual leave with 17.5% leave loading
• 18 days of personal leave
• Up to 22 weeks of gender-free paid parental leave
• Access to comprehensive wellbeing and professional development programs

Apply now

We’d love to hear from you. You can view the position description here and apply by emailing your resume and a cover letter addressing the first 5 KSC on the position description to careers@unison.org.au, we’ll be reviewing applications as they come in so don’t hold off.

We encourage people who are from the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse, the LGBTIQ+ communities and those living with a disability to apply. Please contact our People Team on careers@unison.org.au for more information about our supported recruitment pathways.

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