Maintenance Planner

Role title: Maintenance Planner
Role type: Permanent full Time (38hrs/week)
Role grade: Health Services Manager Level 1
Department and location: Asset Management Unit, St Vincent’s Public Hospital, Sydney
Salary: $91,326.00 - $121,497.00 + super + salary packaging

Welcome to St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney
Join a team built on a proud legacy of world-class care, true compassion, and deep community roots.
Founded by the Sisters of Charity and powered today by St Vincent’s Health Australia, the Sisters' legacy of compassionate service is our living heartbeat. As Sydney’s premier and iconic inner-city public hospital, we serve the entire population, providing world-class care to all people, including the most vulnerable in our community. Across our renowned precinct, we feature cutting-edge programs and surgery infrastructure, fostering clinical excellence and professional growth.
Located in the vibrant heart of Darlinghurst, we are positioned just minutes from Kings Cross station, with direct, high-frequency bus connections from the east, and seamless links from Gadigal and Museum stations right to our doorstep.
Read on to explore this exciting role and the fantastic perks waiting for you here.

About the role

• Maintenance & Asset Management: Demonstrated experience in maintenance planning and works coordination, including preventative, reactive and statutory maintenance programs, with a focus on optimising asset reliability and plant availability.
• Engineering & Compliance: Relevant qualifications and/or equivalent experience in maintenance planning, contractor management and knowledge of Australian Standards, legislation, safety requirements and relevant healthcare/facilities guidelines.
• Maintenance Planning & Coordination: Strong experience planning, prioritising and coordinating maintenance activities, shutdowns, contractors and operational works, with the ability to minimise disruption to critical services.
• CMMS & Asset Data: Experience using a Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to manage work orders, maintenance schedules, asset information and reporting, and using data to support maintenance and asset management decisions.
• Stakeholder & Contractor Management: Strong communication and coordination skills, with experience working with contractors, engineering teams, operational departments and project stakeholders, including monitoring contractor performance, maintenance costs and delivery outcomes.

About you

• Relevant qualifications and experience: Relevant tertiary qualifications and/or demonstrated experience in maintenance planning, facilities and asset management, or project support within a complex live healthcare environment,.
• Facilities & Project Knowledge: Demonstrated experience or knowledge of facilities maintenance, capital works projects, contractor management and maintenance planning, with an understanding of the Australasian Health Facility Guidelines (AusHFG).
• Strong organisation & coordination: Excellent time management and organisational skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple activities, manage competing priorities and deliver outcomes within required timeframes.
• Stakeholder & communication skills: Highly effective interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders and prepare high-quality project documentation and reports.
• Digital & reporting capability: High-level proficiency in Microsoft 365 applications, including Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint, OneNote, Lists and Visio, with the ability to use digital tools to support project documentation, tracking, reporting and communication.

|What we can offer you

• Exceptional Rewards: Competitive pay and not-for-profit salary packaging to maximise your income
• Seamless NSW Health Mobility: Smooth transfer of your qualifying service and leave entitlements
• World-Class: Be part of a renowned precinct alongside the Garvan & Victor Chang institutes
• Excellence: Premier heart/lung transplant program, advanced robotics, & pioneering HIV/AIDS initiatives
• Cutting-Edge Oncology: Deliver advanced cancer care and trials at the renowned Kinghorn Cancer Centre
• Community: Support vital programs for First Nations, homelessness, mental health, & drug and alcohol care
• Professional Advancement: Accelerate your career with study leave and Curran Foundation scholarships
• Health & Wellbeing: Fitness Passport, discounted private health, & cultural recognitions and celebrations

Sponsorship / work rights for Australia
Please note, for candidates who possess the required qualifications, accreditations, and experience, visa sponsorship may be available for this position and will be determined on application.

Equal opportunity
We celebrate diversity & inclusion and are committed to equal employment opportunity for everyone.

As part of our commitment to reconciliation, we encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply and join us in delivering care that heals body, mind, spirit and community.

How to apply
The closing date for applications is 11 September2026.Shortlisting for this position will commence immediately. We encourage you to apply promptly as the advertisement may close early should a suitable applicant be sourced.
Please submit your resume.  A cover letter is welcome but not required.
Respectfully, this role is not open to recruitment agencies.
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