Facilities Officer

Tasman District Council; Richmond; Hybrid; NZD 78,000 - 87,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Flexible/hybrid work options

Birthday leave

Customizable benefits

Job summary

Tasman District Council is seeking a Facilities Officer to coordinate planned, preventative and reactive maintenance across a diverse portfolio of council facilities. You’ll oversee inspections, manage defects, coordinate contractors, and ensure our buildings stay safe, compliant and fit-for-purpose for the community.

This hands-on role balances technical decision-making with customer service and contractor management.

Qualifications

• Experience in facilities maintenance, building services, construction, or property operations.

Responsibilities

• Oversee inspections and manage defects across council facilities.
• Coordinate contractors to ensure buildings are safe, reliable and fit-for-purpose.
• Manage maintenance programmes, building compliance requirements and emergency preparedness activities.
• Support minor renewal projects and asset planning.

Skills

Facilities maintenance

Building services

Contractor management

Customer service

Job description

• Starting salary 78K - $87K + benefits + health insurance + birthday leave

Are you a practical problem-solver who enjoys keeping buildings and facilities safe, compliant, and operating at their best?

We're looking for a Facilities Officer to coordinate planned, preventative and reactive maintenance across a diverse portfolio of Council facilities.

About the role:

You’ll oversee inspections, manage defects, coordinate contractors, and ensure our buildings remain reliable, fit-for-purpose and ready to serve our community.

Working closely with facility users, contractors, and internal stakeholders, you’ll play a key role in managing maintenance programmes, building compliance requirements, emergency preparedness activities, and minor renewal projects. This is a hands-on, varied role where you’ll balance technical decision-making, customer service, and contractor management while helping shape future maintenance and asset planning.

About you:

We're seeking someone with experience in facilities maintenance, building services, construction, property operations, or a similar environment. You’ll be organised, customer-focused, safety-conscious, and confident managing competing priorities across multiple sites.

About us:

In return, you’ll join a values-driven organisation committed to delivering public value, supporting professional growth, and making a positive impact across our thriving Tasman community.

Our benefits package is unique - you customise it to your preferences to include a combination of extra leave, cash payout and additional contributions.

Supportive work environment that includes health insurance, flexible/hybrid work options and a day off on your birthday!

For more information contact the People & Wellbeing Team on 03 543 8400.

Once the vacancy closes you’ll be contacted within 7 days as to whether or not your application has been successful. If you’ve been shortlisted for an interview, you’ll be contacted by one of the People & Wellbeing team to arrange a time to come in and meet with some of the team.

We typically only do one interview, however depending on the seniority of the role or the role itself, we sometimes require two interviews. For mid-senior level and team leader/managerroles, you may also be required to undertake psychometric testing.

In your interview, there will be a member of the People & Wellbeing team, the Hiring Manager and either their Manager or one of the senior member’s of their team. Our interview questionsare predominantly behavioural and skills-based.

Summer Student Internships

Every year we employ a number of Summer Students across the Council to work for a period of 12-16 weeks over the summer months (mid-November to February). This is a great opportunity to gain work experience in your field of study, advertising begins early July, All applications are to be submitted via our website in July.

We typically have vacancies in Engineering, Environmental Information (Hydrology, Resource Science and Biosecurity), Information Services and Regulatory (Compliance Monitoring).