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We are excited to offer an incredible opportunity for a skilled and motivated Facilities Manager to join our dynamic team. As part of the wider Properties and Infrastructure team, you will play a key role in collaborating with contractors, business stakeholders, and internal teams to ensure that our built environment is safe, sustainable, and fully optimized for staff wellbeing. Your focus on Health & Safety, sustainability practices, and efficient operational facilities will be vital in creating a positive and productive work environment for all.
To support this, we have a permanent position for a Facilities Manager within our Airports and Commercial team. This role will be based in either Auckland or Christchurch, currently providing support to the lower North Island network. Please note national travel will be required, there is also an element of out of hours work.
In this role you will ensure Air New Zealand's leased and owned buildings are fit for service and can be utilised to deliver business objectives, while maintaining compliance, effective maintenance, and exceptional customer service for internal and external customers.
The role you will play:
- Manage facilities costs, revenue to budgets and forecasts
- Identify, recommend and implement improvements to the delivery of facilities management services to ensure efficiency and cost effectiveness
- Strong contractor management including remote management, issuing of permits and reviewing appropriate documentation to undertake works
- Complete and monitor Annual Property Maintenance Inspections including R & M and capital works projects to assist in setting annual budgets and to ensure property is of sufficient standard and plans are made to rectify issues
- Keep all documentation of maintenance procedures, processes, and systems (including BCP plan) up to date and ensure they are implemented and adhered to, to enable effective delivery of business requirements and customer service
- Co-ordinate the optimal delivery of scheduled maintenance items to ensure delivery to schedule and budget with least interruption to service including minor Opex and capex projects
- Work with relevant stakeholders to ensure delivery of reactive R&M works in a timely manner, ensuring business continuity
- Maintain and develop contractor/supplier and stakeholder relationships to ensure cost efficient service, best practices and high-quality service delivery.
Our ideal candidate:
- In-depth knowledge of building compliance, systems and procedures as well as a commitment to on-going maintenance of professional standards
- Decisive individual who has energy and motivation to be effective in a very demanding customer facing environment
- Relevant tertiary, NZCE, or trade qualification in a related field
- Passion for adding value and providing an exceptional service to Air New Zealand internal and external customers
- A strong understanding of Health and Safety standards especially in contractor management
- A true team player with a can do attitude.
This is an exciting opportunity that will give you significant experience in a very unique industry. Please apply online via our Careers site, including a cover letter telling us how your skills and experience will support your success in this role.
Please note this job closes on 04/04/2025 - 00:01am.
Additional Information
At Air New Zealand, we are proudly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and believe in creating a truly inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves and thrive. Our people are our greatest asset – because while everything else we do in our operation can be replicated by our competitors, it is our people that truly set us apart. We are firm believers in celebrating the differences and diversity of thought our people bring to their roles.
Whāia te pae tawhiti kia tata. Ko te pae tata whakamaua, kia tina.
"Seek to bring distant horizons closer. Once near, seize them and make them your reality."
