Facility Manager
Downer · Melbourne
We currently have an opportunity for a Facilities Manager. Join our Integrated Facilities Management team and play a key role in leading the safe, efficient and commercially focused delivery of integrated facilities services across Asahi’s property portfolio.
Based at the Abbotsford Brewery, you will oversee facilities operations across sites in Victoria, Tasmania, Western Australia and New South Wales. Reporting to the Contract Manager, Facilities Services, you’ll help deliver high-quality outcomes that support our essential services.
What You’ll Do
This senior leadership role offers a broad scope, with key responsibilities including:
- Lead integrated facilities services, building services and minor projects across a diverse, multi-site property portfolio.
- Champion Zero Harm, ensuring health, safety, environmental, quality and statutory requirements are effectively managed.
- Lead service partners, subcontractors and operational teams to deliver safe, responsive and customer-focused services.
- Manage operational expenditure, budgets, workforce productivity, contract KPIs and cost-optimisation opportunities.
- Build proactive relationships with Asahi stakeholders and drive innovation, sustainability and continuous improvement.
What You’ll Bring
- More than five years’ experience in facilities or property management, ideally across commercial, retail or mixed-use environments.
- Demonstrated experience managing multi-site operations through self-delivery and subcontractor service models.
- Strong financial capability across budgeting, cost control, commercial performance and operational reporting.
- Knowledge of asset lifecycle management, preventative maintenance, building compliance, fire safety, HSE and environmental standards.
- Proven people leadership, stakeholder engagement and communication skills, supported by proficiency in CMMS or CAFM systems and Microsoft Office.
More than anything, you’ll bring a strong work ethic, a positive attitude, and a commitment to delivering high-quality outcomes for our clients.
Why Downer?
Downer plans, creates and sustains essential public services across Australia and New Zealand. From hospitals to data centres and defence partnerships, we manage critical infrastructure that keeps communities thriving.
What It Means to Belong at Downer
We’re proud of our high-performance culture and commitment to diversity, offering:
- Training and development to support and diversify your career.
- With 30% of vacancies filled internally, you’ll find real opportunities to advance your career.
- Perks@Downer: healthcare discounts, great savings on retail and car purchases.
- Employee Assistance Program: professional support for you and your family when you need it most.
You want your work to matter and so do we. With over 26,000 people across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, our team is made up of individuals with unique perspectives, backgrounds and ideas.
We’re committed to building a team that reflects the diverse communities we serve and welcome people of all ages, genders, sexual orientations, cultures, abilities and lived experiences. We especially encourage applications from people whose voices have traditionally been underrepresented in our industry, including women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, Māori and Pasifika Peoples, veterans, people with disability and neurodivergent individuals.
Even if your experience doesn’t align perfectly with this role, we’d still like to hear from you. If it feels like the right fit, apply. Potential counts, and so do you.
As a WORK180 Endorsed Employer, we support flexibility that works for your life, inclusive leadership that values your voice and equitable access to opportunity, so you can do your best work and bring your whole self to it.
If you need support or adjustments through the recruitment process, just let us know. We’re here to help you put your best foot forward.
Lead safe, efficient facilities services across Asahi’s multi-site portfolio, driving operational excellence and stakeholder outcomes.