Senior Facilities Manager

Job Title

Senior Facilities Manager

Job Description Summary

Are you an experienced Facilities Management leader ready to step into a high‑impact role within a critical healthcare environment? Cushman & Wakefield is seeking a Senior Facility Manager to oversee FM service delivery across a major healthcare facility, ensuring safe, reliable and exceptional outcomes for patients, staff and visitors.
This is a rare opportunity to join a global leader in property and facilities management, working within a complex, fast‑paced hospital environment where your expertise truly makes a difference.

Job Description

Senior Facility Manager

Full Time | Integrated Facilities Management

About the Opportunity

As the Senior Facility Manager, you will provide strategic and operational leadership across all FM services, ensuring compliance, performance excellence and a strong client partnership. You’ll lead a team of technical and trade professionals, manage subcontractor performance, and drive continuous improvement across planned and reactive maintenance programs.

You’ll be the key operational contact for the site — trusted, proactive and solutions‑focused — ensuring the facility operates safely, efficiently and in line with contractual and regulatory requirements.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Leading FM service delivery across the healthcare facility, ensuring full statutory and regulatory compliance

• Acting as the senior client interface, building trusted relationships and managing performance outcomes

• Overseeing performance, audits and governance requirements

• Managing budgets, forecasting, procurement and value‑engineering initiatives

• Providing leadership, coaching and development to FM teams

• Ensuring high‑quality planned and reactive maintenance outcomes

• Overseeing risk, WHS, compliance and critical infrastructure resilience

• Supporting asset lifecycle planning, capital works and sustainability initiatives

• Championing a client‑centric culture that enhances patient and staff experience

What You’ll Bring

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a senior FM role

• Strong background in complex facilities — hospital or clinical environments highly regarded

• Experience managing building services, infrastructure and technology systems

• Proven leadership capability with the ability to mentor and uplift teams

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills

• Ability to manage risk, compliance and operational performance in a high‑stakes environment

• Technical trade or engineering qualifications (electrical/mechanical) highly regarded

Why Join Cushman & Wakefield?

C&W is a global leader in facilities management, with over 10,000 managed sites across Australia. You’ll join a supportive, high‑performing team with access to:

• Purpose‑driven work where your decisions support patient wellbeing and clinical operations

• Exposure to complex, high‑risk environments that strengthen your technical and leadership capability

• A collaborative partnership with one of Australia’s leading private healthcare providers

• Support from national engineering, HSSE and asset management specialists

• Career pathways across a large, diverse IFM portfolio

Ready to Make an Impact?

If you’re a driven, resilient and client‑focused FM leader looking for your next challenge, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now and help us deliver safe, reliable and exceptional services within one of Australia’s leading healthcare environments.

As an equal opportunity employer, Cushman & Wakefield encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and female candidates to apply. Cushman & Wakefield promotes safety at all times.