We currently have an opportunity for a Facility Services Manager to join our Health and Education team and play a key role in ensuring the safe, compliant and reliable delivery of facilities services at the Royal Children’s Hospital. Reporting to the Operations Manager, you’ll help deliver high‑quality outcomes that support critical healthcare operations in a highly regulated PPP environment.
Royal Children’s Hospital – Melbourne (On‑site role)
What You’ll Do
This role offers a broad scope, with key responsibilities including:
Lead and coordinate planned preventative maintenance and reactive maintenance activities to ensure asset performance and compliance across the hospital site.
Manage subcontractors end‑to‑end, including onboarding, reviewing SWMS and permits, conducting inductions, and inspecting works to ensure safety and quality standards are met.
Build strong working relationships with hospital stakeholders, Project Co and service partners within a PPP framework.
Maintain accurate documentation, asset registers and maintenance records in line with contractual, statutory and audit requirements.
Champion a proactive safety culture, ensuring all works comply with Downer policies, WHS legislation and hospital requirements.
What You’ll Bring
A tertiary qualification with an engineering background, or a strong trade background with relevant facilities management experience.
Experience managing facilities services, ideally within a healthcare or similarly regulated environment (healthcare experience highly regarded but not essential).
Proven capability in subcontractor management, compliance checking and contractor performance oversight.
Strong organisational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage documentation and reporting in a PPP setting.
Eligibility to obtain a Victorian Working with Children Check (WWCC).
More than anything, you’ll bring a strong work ethic, a positive attitude, and a commitment to delivering high-quality outcomes for our clients.
Why Downer?
At Downer, we plan, create, and sustain essential public services across Australia and New Zealand. From hospitals to data centres and defence partnerships, we manage critical infrastructure that keeps communities thriving.
What It Means to Belong at Downer
We’re proud of our high-performance culture and commitment to diversity, offering:
Training and development to support and diversify your career.
With 30% of vacancies filled internally you’ll find real opportunities to advance your career.
Perks@Downer: healthcare discounts, great savings on retail purchases, car purchases and much more.
Employee Assistance Program: professional support for you and your family when you need it most.
You want your work to matter and so do we. With over 26,000 people across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, our team is made up of individuals with unique perspectives, backgrounds, and ideas.
We know that diversity makes us stronger and we actively celebrate it through our commitment to inclusion and belonging.
We’re committed to building a team that reflects the diverse communities we serve and we welcome people of all ages, genders, sexual orientations, cultures, abilities, and lived experiences. We especially encourage applications from those whose voices have traditionally been underrepresented in our industry, including women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, Māori and Pasifika Peoples, veterans, people with disability, and neurodivergent individuals. Even if your experience doesn’t align perfectly with this role, we’d still like to hear from you. If it feels like the right fit, apply - potential counts, and so do you.
As a WORK180 Endorsed Employer, we support flexibility that works for your life, inclusive leadership that values your voice, and equitable access to opportunity so you can do your best work and bring your whole self to it.
If you need support or adjustments through the recruitment process, just let us know, we’re here to help you put your best foot forward.
Enabling communities to thrive.
It’s what we’ve done for more than 150 years. Solving problems. Making the extraordinary run smoothly every day. We’re keeping the lights on and the water flowing. Running the hospitals that take care of us. Delivering the transport that takes us from A to B. Maintaining communication networks that keep people connected. Helping our Government and Defence customers keep them protected. Delivering train fleets. Building bridges, roads and streets. Now we’re building momentum too. Moving forward even faster.
Across Australia and New Zealand, we’re transforming the way we work. Unlocking our potential to lead by example. Using our passion and expertise to deliver complex projects and turn fresh ideas into solutions that make society a better place. Creating opportunities for our people, growth and value for our shareholders, and world-class solutions for our customers. Imagining. Innovating. Engineering. Enabling.
