Painter

Queensland Health; Atherton; On-site; AUD 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Queensland Health's Infrastructure Asset Management team is seeking a Painter to deliver high-standard preventive and corrective maintenance across Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service facilities. You will perform painting duties, support minor new works, and ensure records and reports accompany maintenance tasks.

The role emphasizes collaboration with trade staff, apprentices, and external contractors, maintaining licences and training, and minimizing disruption to patients and

Responsibilities

• Ensure all Planned Maintenance work orders have required service reports attached as evidence of completion.
• Maintain personal licences and any assigned annual training requirements to ensure that they are always current.
• Work with apprentices, trade assistants, external trade contractors and other staff ensuring specifications and quality standards are met.
• Liaise with and work with staff, other government agencies and private contractors to ensure work is undertaken with minimal disruption to clients and other staff.

Job description

Work collaboratively to make a difference.

An exciting opportunity currently exists for you to join the Infrastructure Asset Management as a Painter. This position is responsible for providing high standard preventative and corrective maintenance services for Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service buildings, plant, equipment, fixtures and fittings. The Painter will be required to carry out minor new works and painting duties as directed by the Trade Coordinator.

Make the move. Make a difference.

About us:

Infrastructure Asset Management (IAM) provides planning, construction, operation and maintenance of all Health Service physical facilities, engineering systems, plant and equipment to meet strategic objectives within a quality environment. IAM is staffed with professional, trade operational, and administrative staff. Trades include electrical, fitting, plumbing, carpentry, refrigeration, trade assistants and apprentices.

The unit is accountable for facility maintenance and asset management in CHHHS and ensures all clinical and administrative buildings are compliant with statutory checks and inspections necessary to comply with Acts, Regulations, Codes of Practice and Australian Standards. IAM provides 24-hour corrective maintenance and breakdown service for the facilities around the Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service.

We're committed to improving the health and wellbeing of people in Far North Queensland by providing high quality acute health care services.

About your role:

• Ensure all Planned Maintenance work orders have required service reports attached as evidence of completion. Discuss defects identified with Trade Coordinator and assist in compilation of corrective works required to ensure equipment/items inspected remain in a serviceable condition. This includes completion of all paper based and electronic records.
• Maintain personal licences and any assigned annual training requirements to ensure that they are always current.
• Work with apprentices, trade assistants, external trade contractors and other staff ensuring specifications and quality standards are met.
• Liaise with and work with staff, other government agencies and private contractors to ensure work is undertaken with minimal disruption to clients and other staff.

For more information about this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.

Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPD)evidence as required for your employment in accordance with legislation/government policy and Directives.

What we offer:

Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health service offer a number of workplace benefits. Besides attractive remuneration, generous superannuation, salary packaging and career development opportunities, we value a healthy work/life balance that allows you take advantage of the sunshine, hiking tracks, swimming spots, reef and rainforest.

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