Site Facilities Supervisor

We currently have an opportunity for a Site Facilities Supervisor to join our Government & Integrated Facilities Management team to play a key role in ensuring safe, compliant and efficient facilities operations that support critical government infrastructure services. Based in Brisbane, this is at the Brisbane Immigration Detention Centre (BIDC). Reporting to the Site Facilities Manager, you'll help deliver high-quality outcomes that support our essential services.

What You’ll Do 

This role offers a broad scope, with key responsibilities including:

• Coordinate planned and reactive maintenance activities, ensuring works are delivered safely, efficiently and in line with contractual requirements. 

• Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships with clients, service delivery partners (SDPs), subcontractors and operational teams. 

• Manage and coordinate service delivery partners, monitor quality outcomes, and support compliance through audits and inspections. 

• Prepare and manage quotations, approval requests, variations and work order documentation within the Works Management System. 

• Monitor asset performance and maintenance data, identify improvement opportunities, and support continuous service delivery excellence across the site

What You’ll Bring 

• Trade qualification (electrical, plumbing or similar) highly regarded, or strong Facilities Coordination/Facilities Management experience. 

• Demonstrated experience managing contractors, subcontractors or service delivery partners within a facilities, property or maintenance environment. 

• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to build positive and effective working relationships. 

• Advanced computer skills and experience using Computerised Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS), Works Management Systems or similar platform.

• Strong understanding of compliance, scheduling, approvals, quotations, work order management and maintenance service delivery processes.

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?

At Downer, we plan, create, and sustain 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 purchases, car purchases and much more.

• 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 know that diversity makes us stronger and we actively celebrate it through our commitment to inclusion and belonging.

We’re committed to building a team that reflects the diverse communities we serve and we welcome people of all ages, genders, sexual orientations, cultures, abilities, and lived experiences. We especially encourage applications from those 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.