Chief Engineer

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Employment Type: Permanent Full Time

Position Classification: Health Mgr Lvl 4

Remuneration: $121,246 - $145,063

Hours Per Week: 38

Requisition ID: REQ54922

Working in a hospital engineering job ticks all the boxes

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The Children's Hospital at Westmead is a leading tertiary paediatric Hospital that treats some of the sickest children and young people in New South Wales and beyond.

Committed to providing the best possible care for children, it is located within the Westmead precinct, one of the largest health and education precincts in Australia with four major hospitals, three world leading medical research institutes and major tertiary education institutions with campuses on the precinct.

These businesses work together in an integrated and co-ordinated way to deliver world-class innovation and services for NSW and Australia and being able to work with all partners in a collaborative way is critical to the advertised role.

About the Opportunity

If your ideal engineering role involves variety in your day and you are passionate about providing high quality customer centric engineering support to find solutions to problems in a complex environment ? then this is the role for you!

The Chief Engineer leads the Engineering and Maintenance Department at The Children?s Hospital at Westmead (CHW). In this function the Chief Engineer is responsible for the operationalisation, enhancement and management of standardised engineering and maintenance processes across CHW and proposal efforts.

Acting as a technical consultant, apply fundamental engineering principles, procedures and techniques to perform and oversee facility maintenance and capital or minor works projects across multiple programs and disciplines.

The ideal candidate will have a history of proven business acumen coupled with technical and analytical expertise across end to end management of a major facility or facilities where complex critical infrastructure must be available in a 24/7 environment.

Demonstrated experience working in a collaborative way with a range of internal and external stakeholders as well as a positive can-do attitude will be well regarded.

Selection Criteria:

1. Extensive experience in leading a large multidisciplinary technical / engineering team and developing a strong service based culture including developing and implementing maintenance plans, monitoring performance and meeting goals.
2. Tertiary Qualifications specifically relating to building or building services or significant relevant experience demonstrating fundamental knowledge in Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing management of major facilities.
3. Demonstrated successful experience in the end to end management of a major facility or facilities where complex critical infrastructure must be available on 24/7 basis
4. Extensive experience in Engineering field, knowledge of plant performance and maintenance strategies with particular emphasis on the development of Preventative Maintenance programs and routine and emergency works planning to meet tight deadlines.
5. High level understanding and experience with Building Management Systems BMS and their use in a building services environment as well as good competency with MS Office suite.
6. Demonstrated knowledge of Financial /Budget management.
7. Demonstrated experience in the management and operation of project planning and delivery of complex engineering systems that relate to building services.
8. Ability to track record of implementing changes in a turnaround engineering or facilities management environment in regards to service provision.

SCHN is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourage all suitably qualified applicants to apply, including Indigenous Australians, and people from culturally diverse backgrounds.                                                  

We highly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to apply for this position. We recognise the value of Aboriginal staff providing health care to Aboriginal children and families that accesses the services we provide at the Sydney Children?s Hospitals Network. Aboriginal job applicants may like to visit the NSW Health Aboriginal Recruitment tool, Stepping Up to assist in preparing your application.

Please note: To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have an Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.

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For role related queries or questions contact Haider Syed on 0436 604 042 or [email protected]

Applications Close: 05/08/2018