Senior Facilities Coordinator

Opportunity

Facilities operations and projects

• Oversee planned and reactive maintenance, ensuring compliance with safety and site quality standards.
• Coordinate workstation changes, minor office reconfigurations and operational setup needs.
• Act as daily escalation point for building services, contractor access and maintenance inquiries.
• Participate in the 24/7 on-call roster for critical alarms, faults and emergencies.
• Oversee contractors during servicing, repairs and minor works and verify work to specification.
• Track vendor SLA compliance, lead contractor coordination meetings and maintain shared records.
• Support major building projects to meet time and budget targets.
• Conduct inspections and safety walks; record hazards in the risk-management tool.
• Identify cost-saving opportunities in routine facilities spending.

Contractor safety and technical leadership

• Verify SWMS, JSA, Permit to Work forms and site inductions before contractor work begins.
• Serve as a technical lead and senior operational contact for facilities, complex troubleshooting, contractor oversight and site safety.

Required qualifications and experience

• Extensive facilities-management experience in a commercial, industrial or manufacturing environment, with technical-lead, site-contact or senior-mentor experience.
• Tertiary or recognized trade qualification relevant to facilities management, mechanical/electrical services or building operations.
• Strong understanding of BMS, CMMS platforms such as Corevision or SAP, SWMS, JSA, PTW and contractor safety compliance.
• Proven analytical and technical troubleshooting and vendor-management skills; able to serve as an operational escalation point.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder-management skills.

Ideal experience

• Biomedical, pharmaceutical, medical-device or other regulated manufacturing experience involving GMP and cleanroom standards is ideal.
• Tenant/client-side facilities operations experience is ideal.
• Advanced BMS fault diagnostics and automated access-control administration capability is ideal.

Why join Cochlear

• The role offers exposure to business stakeholders, including Manufacturing Directors, Manufacturing Engineering and WHS.
• The coordinator will support capital works, facility upgrades and expanding services as production lines come online.
• The role offers development in cleanroom environments, QMS compliance and site operational leadership.
• Cochlear describes its work as purpose-led and focused on helping people with hearing loss.