Associate Director (Facilities and Infrastructure Management)

• Total remuneration range $166,274 to $184,308 pa
• Full-time continuing appointment
• Toowoomba or Ipswich campus

Are you ready to lead the strategic management of facilities and infrastructure at UniSQ? As the Associate Director (Facilities and Infrastructure Management), you will drive the planning, maintenance, and enhancement of the University’s buildings, property portfolio, and infrastructure. This is a pivotal leadership role, ensuring our assets support quality teaching, learning, and research, while aligning with industry standards, legislation, and UniSQ’s strategic objectives.

Who you are

You are a dynamic and visionary leader, passionate about building strong relationships and driving strategic outcomes. Your interpersonal skills enable you to engage and inspire diverse teams, foster collaboration across departments, and cultivate productive partnerships with internal and external stakeholders. You thrive in complex environments, using your strategic mindset to navigate challenges, set clear priorities, and deliver innovative solutions. As a role model for excellence and professionalism, you motivate and empower others, championing a culture of continuous improvement, safety, and service.

What you'll do

Leading the development and implementation of infrastructure and maintenance policies and strategies, you will provide strong WHS leadership, foster a positive safety culture, and ensure effective risk management, compliance and assurance across the asset maintenance and contractor portfolio.

You will be expected to build strong stakeholder relationships, review current maintenance and infrastructure programs, uplift reporting and performance measures, and identify opportunities for efficiency, sustainability and risk reduction as well as:

• Oversee operational maintenance plans to reduce backlog and improve preventative activities across all UniSQ locations.
• Manage maintenance contracts and ensure best practice contractor management.
• Exercise strong financial management, delivering within time, budget, and policy parameters.
• Drive the strategic development of asset management systems to provide reliable insights that inform decision?making, investment prioritisation, and performance reporting.
• Ensure maintenance, capital works and contractor activities are planned and delivered in accordance with WHS legislation, University safety management systems, and best practice risk controls.

What will help you succeed

To be successful in this role, you will also possess:

• Postgraduate qualifications in Civil, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, Facilities Management, Architecture, Building Construction, Business, or a related field.
• Professional registration in a relevant discipline.
• Extensive experience in facilities maintenance and management within a complex, multi-disciplinary environment.
• Proven ability to manage large-scale capital and operating programs and budgets.
• Expertise in Facilities Management Information Systems and data-driven planning.
• Strong leadership, strategic thinking, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Demonstrated experience managing safety risk within complex facilities, infrastructure, or asset?intensive environments.
• Commitment to UniSQ’s values of Respect, Integrity, and Excellence.

Regular travel to UniSQ Springfield, Ipswich, and other University facilities is required.

For further information about this role, please contact Mr Nathan Jones, Executive Director (Facilities Management) via +61 7 4631 2167 or ExecutiveDirector-FacilitiesManagement@unisq.edu.au.

Building on its strengths as Australia’s leading regional university, UniSQ partners closely with its communities to drive innovation and create opportunity through education and research. Guided by our values of respect, integrity, and excellence, UniSQ’s Strategic Plan 2026–2030 sets a clear ambition: to be Australia’s most transformative university by embracing our regional identity, fostering inclusive learning and research environments, and delivering globally relevant outcomes with strong local impact.

The University offers a range of different ways of working and connecting across our physical and virtual spaces to meet the needs of our students, partners and community. We value diversity and strive to foster an inclusive environment that is underpinned by our values and champions, embraces and respects differences.

We support and encourage applications from all diversity groups. With an increasingly diverse workforce, we understand that careers may be placed on hold or limited throughout many life circumstances.

Find out more about UniSQ at www.unisq.edu.au.

To be considered for this position, you will need to have the right to work in Australia.

Reference Number: 0007_01/26

Location: Toowoomba (preferred) or Ipswich (by negotiation)

Term: Full-time continuing appointment (36 hours/week)

Salary: Total remuneration range $166,274 to $184,308 pa (includes salary range of $140,227 to $155,436 pa, employer super contributions of 17% and annual leave loading)

Closes: Tuesday, 12 May 2026 at 11:30 pm (AEST)

At UniSQ we are united by our core values of Respect, Integrity and Excellence, which guide our daily actions and decision-making. UniSQ is a child safe organisation.

As part of the University of Southern Queensland's commitment to fostering a safe, respectful and rewarding work environment and in compliance with our legal obligations, we require candidates to declare whether they have been investigated for an allegation of Gender Based Violence, or determined to have engaged in conduct that constitutes Gender Based Violence, during the course of their previous employment or in any legal process.

This information helps us meet our legal obligations under the National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Gender Based Violence, and will be considered when determining a candidate's suitability for employment, so that we can keep our University community safe.

If you know that this role is right for you, please submit your current resume together with a two-page (maximum) statement, outlining your skills and experience relative to ‘Who we’re looking for’ in the position description.

For more information on our selection process please refer to your recruitment journey available on our website.

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