Assistant Facilities Manager Retail Portfolio Melbourne North

• Retail shopping centre portfolio across northern Melbourne: contractor oversight, compliance and tenant engagement at the core
• Open to FM coordinators, retail operations, building services or trade backgrounds, what matters is how you think
• Hub based role with travel across sites, structure your week your way
• Real asset ownership for someone stepping up, backed by a technically strong Senior FM
• Long term stability through a major national client partnership
• Melbourne Land of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people

CBRE is seeking an Assistant Facilities Manager to join our IFM Investors account team across a portfolio of retail shopping centres in northern Melbourne. You’ll own audit cycles, compliance reporting and contractor oversight day to day, with the autonomy to run your week and the backing of an experienced Senior FM to grow alongside.

Perfect for an FM coordinator or technician ready for the next step, or someone from retail operations, building services or a trade background who brings the right instincts.

In This Role, You Will

• Manage day to day operations across a portfolio of retail shopping centres in northern Melbourne
• Own audit processing and compliance reporting, holding contractors and sites to a high standard
• Oversee contractor performance across planned, preventative and reactive maintenance programs
• Build strong working relationships with tenants and the IFM Investors team, keeping communication proactive and issues resolved quickly
• Partner with the Senior FM on technical building services matters and operational decision making

About You

• Some experience in facilities, retail operations, building services or a trade is ideal, though we are equally open to strong transferable skills from a customer focused or operational background
• A compliance mindset and high attention to detail, you notice things others miss and follow through, whether that comes from FM, retail operations, a trade or anywhere people are held to a standard
• Confident communicator, comfortable managing contractors and tenants with professionalism and authority
• Self directed and organised, able to structure your week and manage competing priorities across multiple sites
• Comfortable holding contractors accountable and escalating where standards aren’t met

Why CBRE?

• Structure your week your way, genuine flexibility for a field based role with no two days the same
• Structured mentoring from an experienced Senior FM and clear pathways into FM and broader property careers
• Employee networks, wellbeing programs and corporate benefits
• An inclusive culture where everyone belongs, including people with disability and First Nations talent

Can we inspire you to join us? At CBRE, our unwavering commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion begins with you. We are strengthening our inclusive culture, so everyone feels safe, valued, and heard. Because when you belong, we all succeed.

We welcome and encourage First Nations People to apply. Be inspired to elevate your career to new heights. We look forward to hearing from you! #WeAreCBRE

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