Regional Facilities Manager - Southern

Ministry for Primary Industries; Christchurch; On-site; NZD 122,000 - 142,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Additional MPI leave days

Ability to purchase extra annual leave

Annual Wellness payment

Job summary

Ministry for Primary Industries is seeking a Regional Facilities Manager for the Southern region, based in Christchurch. You will oversee MPI sites across the South Island, delivering practical facilities solutions, asset management, and service delivery while balancing priorities and driving improvements.

You will work with contractors, site users, and stakeholders to ensure safe, functional workplaces and resilient operations.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing multiple sites and service delivery.
• Ability to balance urgent needs with longer-term priorities.
• Strong stakeholder communication and relationship-building skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver practical facilities solutions across MPI sites.
• Lead regional facilities and asset activities.
• Manage contractor and service provider delivery across sites.
• Support emergency and after-hours response as needed.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships and collaboration.
• Balance competing priorities effectively.

Skills

Facilities management

Property maintenance

Stakeholder relationships

Contractor management

Independent working

Decision making

Education

Facilities qualification advantageous

Job description

**Job title:** Regional Facilities Manager - Southern**Role type**: Full time, permanent**Location**: Christchurch**Salary band & range**: GSR C: $121,764 to $142,494 depending on skills and experience**About the Role - Kōrero mō te Tūranga**This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of MPI's South Island sites. As the Property and Facilities presence for the South Island, you'll enjoy autonomy while contributing to decisions that support our people, workplaces, and wider organisational goals.You'll thrive in a role that balances day-to-day operational demands with longer-term planning and improvement initiatives. Working closely with stakeholders, contractors, and site users, you'll use sound judgement, practical problem-solving, and strong relationship skills to deliver solutions, influence outcomes, and help establish new ways of working.You'll be successful in this role if you can:* Deliver practical property and facilities solutions* Balance immediate needs with future priorities* Support site improvements and workplace change* Identify risks and implement workable solutions* Help shape future facilities delivery at MPI**About You - Mōu**You'll likely be working in facilities management, property maintenance, technical servicing, or a similar role where you've been responsible for multiple sites and service delivery. This role offers an opportunity to broaden your experience across a diverse property portfolio both leased and owned, while supporting operational continuity, emergency response, and asset stewardship within a large organisation.We're looking for someone with practical facilities knowledge, sound judgement, and resilience who enjoys balancing competing priorities. You'll be comfortable working independently, building strong relationships with stakeholders and service providers, and making decisions that support safe, efficient, and well-maintained workplaces.Ideally, you will be able to:* Manage facilities across multiple sites* Lead regional facilities and asset activities* Manage contractor and service provider delivery across sites* Support emergency and after-hours response (on an as needed occasional basis)* Apply hands-on facilities expertise* Work independently and make sound decisions* Build strong stakeholder relationships* Balance competing priorities effectively* Bring resilience and a practical mindset* Facilities qualification advantageous, not essentialYou must have a current full New Zealand driver licence (not temporary, learner, or provisional) or equivalent full foreign drivers licence.You do not need to meet all of the role requirements to apply. We offer a breadth of development and learning opportunities and will welcome an application if you think you could make a great fit.**About the Team** - **Mō tō mātou Rōpū**Our Property and Facilities team supports MPI sites across Aotearoa New Zealand, helping create safe, functional, and efficient workplaces that enable MPI to deliver for New Zealand. The wider team includes specialists located throughout the country.Although geographically dispersed, the team works closely together, sharing knowledge, solving challenges, and supporting one another to achieve common goals. This role offers the opportunity to work autonomously while building strong relationships with managers, staff, and colleagues across MPI. Together, the team helps ensure our workplaces, facilities, and assets continue to support the organisation's strategic priorities and future ways of working.**About MPI - Mō te Manatū Ahu Matua**We're a large organisation with massive scope from the frontline to policy development and beyond.**Benefits of working at MPI - Ngā hua o te mahi i te Manatū Ahu Matua*** Additional MPI leave days* Ability to purchase extra annual leave* Annual Wellness payment**Credit check - Tirotiro nama**Please note, given this position is identified as carrying financial risk, the preferred candidate(s) will be required to satisfactorily pass a credit check.**Are you ready to make a difference? - Kua rite koe mō tēnei mahi whaitake?**We are committed to being a good partner under Te Tiriti o Waitangi which includes working closely with iwi, hapū, whānau and hāpori.We aspire to reflect the diverse communities we serve, so we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, and identities. As an organisation, we are committed to making Manatū Ahu Matua Ministry for Primary Industries a great place to work for all.In your cover letter we'd like to know about you, your values; your interest and motivations for this role; the abilities, strengths, personal attributes and diverse perspectives you will bring to the role and this organisation, which may have also been gained outside of the workforce.To view the position description and/or apply online, please click “APPLY FOR THIS JOB” or visit the MPI Careers Site. To apply, you must hold the right to work in New Zealand or be eligible to obtain it – click here to find out more about work visa eligibility and options.**Applications close at 11.59pm Sunday 1 November 2026**