Careers at TAFE NSW
Facilities Coordinator
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Facilities Coordinator
Griffith Campus (Other locations may be considered subject to campus availability and your ability to travel to Griffith regularly)
Temporary full-time opportunity until 30 June 2026
Salary Package $107,740.01 – $116,025.69 (includes base salary $94,923 - $102,223 per annum) plus employer’s contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading
A talent pool will also be created for future temporary and permanent opportunities
At TAFE NSW, we are dedicated to life-changing impact.
That’s why we offer world-class training and education that delivers the skills needed for the jobs of today and tomorrow.
Life-changing impact starts with an incredible team that sees their career as an opportunity to transform someone’s world. Whether that’s inspiring students, supporting each other, or helping our communities and industries flourish.
We live by TAFE NSW values: Customer Focus, Integrity, Collaboration, and Excellence. They define who we are, how we work and inspire our performance.
We invest in our people
At TAFE NSW, you will discover a diverse, dynamic, and collaborative environment, where you can innovate, create value, and do meaningful work.
We provide you with tools and ongoing training and professional development, health and wellbeing programs, and depending on your role, a 35 hour working week with a variety of flexible working options.
About The Role
As a Facilities Coordinator, you will lead a team delivering property and facilities services across a cluster of TAFE NSW sites, managing both inhouse staff and contracted providers to ensure high standards of performance, safety, compliance, and customer service. You will allocate work requests, perform minor maintenance, monitor work management systems, and oversee contracted services.
You will build strong relationships with site stakeholders, support planning and scheduling, contribute to regional projects and emergency planning, and ensure team readiness for incidents, always keeping the customer at the centre of all decisions.
About You
You are a strong, practical leader with excellent people skills and the ability to guide a team in delivering high-quality facilities services. You are organised, proactive, and able to balance priorities while working collaboratively with staff and contractors. You will have experience supervising inhouse and/or contracted teams, coordinating work to required standards, and using computer systems for work tracking and reporting.
Experience in facilities, property, or infrastructure management is advantageous, but your ability to lead a team, solve problems, and get things done is what matters most.
You must hold (or be willing to obtain) a Class C Driver’s Licence and Forklift Licence, have a valid Working with Children Check, be willing to travel across multiple sites in the regional network, with attending our TAFE NSW Griffith site regularly.
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Position Description
Our commitment to Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion
We are committed to creating a culturally safe and accessible workplace where dignity, trust, respect, and the promotion of diversity and inclusion are valued, so you can safely bring your whole self to work and connect with your community through our many diverse employee networks.
If you require an adjustment in the recruitment process, please contact our Talent Acquisition Advisor listed below.
A career of life-changing impact awaits you. Apply now!
Applications close 11.55pm AEDT Wednesday 1st October 2025.
To apply for this role, click on 'apply now' and provide:
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Your current resume
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Covering letter addressing how you meet the ‘essential requirements’ as listed in the position description (1 page max.)
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Response to one targeted question when prompted in the application form (max 300 words)
Targeted Question 1: Can you give an example of a time you had to prioritise multiple facilities requests across your team? How did you allocate tasks, manage your team’s workload, and ensure stakeholders were satisfied with the outcome?
General recruitment and adjustment enquiries: contact Talent Acquisition Advisor, Kayla Smith, kayla.smith64@tafensw.edu.au.
Role-specific enquiries: Simon Tomlinson, Regional Facilities Manager, simon.tomlinson@tafensw.edu.au, and 02 79211563.
For helpful insights into preparing your application, TAFE NSW’s recruitment process, and getting interview ready, read through our Application Process and the interactive Capability Application Tool.
This is a child-related position. A Working with Children Check is a prerequisite for anyone in child-related work. It involves a national criminal history check and review of findings of workplace misconduct.
A talent pool, valid for 18 months, may be created for this position, and position(s) of the same classification that subsequently becomes vacant, may be filled via this recruitment.
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