About the Role
As a Facilities Manager at JLL, you will take full ownership of managing and maintaining a diverse portfolio of owned properties and leased premises across the NSW/ACT region. This role is central to day-to-day operations, ensuring exceptional service delivery for our client while maintaining the highest standards of compliance and performance. You will embody JLL's commitment to shaping a brighter way through a proactive approach to facilities management, overseeing site budgets, accounting, maintenance, contract services, and procurement for approximately 90 retail sites and 2 major commercial/corporate properties. Based at the client's corporate office at Darling Park, Sydney, you will ensure all facilities operate seamlessly.
Responsibilities
- Lead and inspire your facilities team, fostering a collaborative environment.
- Partner closely with clients and stakeholders, building trusted relationships.
- Oversee comprehensive site budgets, financial reporting, and analysis.
- Manage vendor relationships and procurement processes.
- Conduct regular site inspections across retail and commercial properties.
- Ensure strict compliance with occupational health and safety requirements.
- Oversee critical building systems including CRAC units, chiller systems, fire protection, mechanical and electrical systems, and BMS platforms.
- Manage occupancy services and helpdesk operations.
- Monitor and interpret commercial contracts, ensuring all parties meet their obligations.
Requirements
- Proven experience in facilities management, property management, or a related field with a track record of delivering best practice outcomes.
- Demonstrated people management skills with the ability to inspire, develop, and lead high-performing teams.
- Experience working in corporate environments, including direct dealings with executive-level stakeholders.
- Strong knowledge of local occupational health and safety requirements and compliance frameworks.
- Understanding of critical facilities operations and infrastructure management.
- Technical knowledge of building systems including CRAC, chillers, fire protection, mechanical and electrical systems, and BMS platforms.
- Proven ability to understand, interpret, and manage commercial contracts effectively.
- Strong budget management and financial analysis capabilities.
- Current and valid driver's license with willingness to travel, including interstate when required.
Skills
- Facilities management
- Property management
- People management
- Stakeholder management
- Budget management
- Financial analysis
- Vendor management
- Procurement
- Occupational health and safety compliance
- Building systems management
- Commercial contract interpretation
- CAFM systems
- Financial management software
Location
- Sydney, NSW
Work Type
- On-site
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Education Level
- Tertiary qualification in facilities management, property management, engineering, or related discipline (preferred)
- Certification in facilities management (e.g., FMA, IFMA) or project management (preferred)
Benefits
- Great employee discounts off fitness, wellbeing & other renowned brands
- 18 weeks paid maternity leave
- Private Health Insurance Discounts
- Active Social Club
- Employee assistant program
- Novated Lease for EV cars
- Paid time off for volunteer work
- Career Opportunities with Australia's #1 Commercial Real Estate firm
- Premium offices
About the Company
- JLL empowers you to shape a brighter way.
- Our people at JLL are shaping the future of real estate for a better world by combining world class services, advisory and technology for our clients.
- We are committed to hiring the best, most talented people and empowering them to thrive, grow meaningful careers and to find a place where they belong.
- Shaping the future of real estate for a better world
- At JLL, we see a Brighter Way forward for our clients, our people, our planet, and our communities.
- With over 200 years of real estate experience, we are, and always have been, in continual pursuit of brighter ways of working.
- We bring to life a Brighter Way in all that we do by seeking better, smarter, more innovative ways of working.
- We approach our work in a warmer, more optimistic, and inclusive way.
- JLL is a global leader in helping clients envision where people will live, work, play, shop, and eat.
- Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading global provider of real estate and investment management services.
Equal Opportunity
- As an organisation, we don’t just accept that we are a place of many different people, but we embrace it, we celebrate it, and we proactively support the needs that difference brings.
- JLL is committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, gender, age, sexual orientation or disability, and that is why, for more than a decade, we continue to rank among the World’s Most Ethical Companies.
- We are dedicated to offering veterans from all ranks and services a successful civilian career as they transition out of the military.
- Jones Lang LaSalle (“JLL”) is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.
- If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process – including the online application and/or overall selection process – you may email us at HRSCLeaves@jll.com.
