Senior Manager Facilities

WorkSafe Victoria; Geelong; Hybrid; AUD 171,000 - 209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Geelong location

Job summary

WorkSafe Victoria is seeking a Senior Manager Facilities to lead enterprise property, workplace, fleet and security functions in a hybrid Geelong-based role. The position oversees an integrated operating model and long-term asset stewardship to support safe, sustainable operations.

The role requires strong leadership, stakeholder engagement and significant commercial acumen to drive portfolio planning and disciplined investment prioritisation.

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience across property, facilities, asset management, fleet, physical security or related corporate services.
• Experience developing enterprise property, workplace and accommodation strategies.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen.

Responsibilities

• Establish and lead an integrated Corporate Facilities function with defined services and governance.
• Lead uplift in property and workplace strategy with long-term plans.
• Transform fleet and travel strategy with evidence-based analysis.
• Oversee physical security and workplace resilience with governance and assurance.
• Develop portfolio plans and budgets to optimise investments.

Skills

Senior leadership

Facilities management

Portfolio planning

Stakeholder engagement

Financial acumen

Job description

WorkSafe is Victoria's workplace health and safety regulator. We are also the workplace injury insurer. Our job is to reduce workplace harm and improve outcomes for injured workers. This is our promise to the Victorian community and the reason we exist.

• $190,009.00 per annum + superannuation
• Full time, ongoing
• Wadawurrung / Geelong based role (hybrid work from home / city office - 3 days in office)

About the opportunity

The Senior Manager Facilities will play a key leadership role within our Corporate Services business unit in leading WorkSafe's enterprise property, workplace, physical security, fleet and travel functions.

This role will be key to enable safe, effective, sustainable and resilient operations across the organisation to ensure our property, fleet and physical security arrangements are safe, sustainable, cost-effective and fit for future organisational needs?

The role will also be accountable for establishing an integrated Corporate Facilities operating model, including clear services, accountabilities, governance, performance measures and ways of working. A principal priority is to significantly uplift WorkSafe's property and fleet strategies, moving from predominantly transactional and operational management to long-term, evidence-based portfolio planning, asset stewardship and investment prioritisation.

Key accountabilities:

• Establish and lead an integrated Corporate Facilities function, defining the operating model, service catalogue, governance, accountabilities and performance standards
• Lead a significant uplift in WorkSafe's property and workplace strategy including required assessments and translate these insights into long-term portfolio, investment, maintenance and asset-lifecycle plans.
• Transform WorkSafe's fleet and travel strategy by establishing an evidence-based approach to required analysis and assessments of current state and to ensure travel services are safe, efficient, appropriately controlled and aligned with business requirements.
• Lead WorkSafe's physical security, facilities risk and workplace-resilience arrangements by establishing effective strategy, standards, governance, assurance and response capability; ensuring building, essential-services and facilities obligations are met.
• Optimise Corporate Facilities investment, commercial performance and service delivery by developing integrated portfolio plans and budgets.

Please ensure you review the Position Description here for additional information on accountabilities for this role.

About you

You will be an experienced senior leader whose passion for customer experience will be the cornerstone of your work. You will have proven experience in developing and driving a customer focused and service based culture that has had a lasting impact across your organisations.

Your strengths will also include your stakeholder engagement and management skills and ability to negotiate across diverse stakeholder groups.

In addition you will have significant commercial and financial acumen which will add significant value to the requirements of this position.

Additionally, you will possess the following skills and experience:

• Demonstrated senior leadership experience across property, facilities, asset management, fleet, physical security or related corporate services within a government, regulatory or similarly complex organisation.
• Proven experience developing and implementing enterprise property, workplace and accommodation strategies supported by portfolio data, utilisation analysis, asset condition, risk, sustainability and long-term investment planning.
• Demonstrated experience developing or substantially transforming fleet strategy, including demand, allocation, composition, utilisation, replacement, safety, environmental performance and whole-of-life cost.
• Proven ability to integrate previously separate functions into a clear operating model with defined services, accountabilities, governance, performance measures and customer outcomes.
• Strong asset-management and lifecycle-planning capability, including asset registers, condition and criticality assessment, maintenance and renewal planning, investment prioritisation and benefits evaluation.
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams through significant change and create an accountable, collaborative, service-oriented and continuous-improvement culture.

Working with us

At WorkSafe, our goal is for every employee to feel connected, safe, and valued within their team, for teams to feel appreciated in the workplace, and for WorkSafe to be respected in the community.

We believe that a diverse workforce is essential for delivering the best outcomes for the Victorian community. We strongly encourage applications from all individuals, including First Nations people, people with disabilities, those from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and individuals of all sexualities and genders.

What's next?

Applications close 11:00pm Friday 27th November 2026.

Preferred candidates will be required to satisfactorily complete a Nationally Coordinated Criminal.

History Check and/or other checks as required for the position as part of the recruitment process.

Eligibility for ongoing employment with WorkSafe Victoria requires Australian or New Zealand citizenship or permanent residency.

Due to the volume of applications received, individualised feedback will only be provided to candidates who progress to interview stage.

For further enquiries please contact Talent Acquisition Specialist David Heaney via email - ************@worksafe.vic.gov.au