Regional Facilities Manager

**Job Title**:Regional Facilities Manager - Northern

**Role Type**:Permanent, full-time

**Location**: Auckland (Mt. Albert and Mangere)

**Salary Range**: GSR C $119,376 to $139,700 per annum depending on skills and experience

**About the Role - Korero mo te Turanga**

As Regional Facilities Manager - Northern, you'll lead facilities operations across sites from Kaitaia to Rotorua. This is a strategic and hands-on role managing the full lifecycle of leased and owned buildings and infrastructure. You'll oversee offices, labs, plants, and equipment ensuring safe, sustainable, and fit-for-purpose assets.

Working closely with the National Facilities Manager, you'll lead planning, upgrades, relocations, and maintenance. You'll collaborate with contractors and technical experts to deliver proactive solutions and responsive site support.

This role offers the chance to lead and shape systems for your region from the ground up and contribute to the National systems with an opportunity to innovate. You'll work closely with the National Asset Manager and contribute to and support emergency response.

Your work will directly impact how MPI operates, enabling better outcomes for our people and the communities we serve. You'll be trusted to lead projects, manage budgets, and build strong relationships across a diverse regional footprint. This is a unique opportunity to make your mark and help build a future-focused facilities function for MPI.

**Key responsibilities include:

- Leading facilities management and building services across multiple sites in the Northern region
- Conducting regular site inspections to ensure operational effectiveness and compliance
- Establishing maintenance schedules, service level agreements, and reporting frameworks
- Managing service requests and ensuring timely resolution of facilities-related issues
- Delivering facilities projects including equipment replacement and system upgrades
- Coordinating office moves and relocations with mínimal disruption to operations
- Supporting procurement and contract management across regional sites
- Collaborating on technical asset management and new builds within your region
- Monitoring and managing site budget expenditure
- Acting as the first point of contact for after-hours facility emergencies

This role may require overnight travel approximately every two to three months planned in advance. After-hours work may be required for maintenance, contractor coordination, or an emergency response.

**About You - Mou**

To be successful in this newly created role, you'll bring hands-on facilities management experience for medium to large businesses, across multiple sites and asset types. You'll have contributed to build projects as a technical authority with a strong understanding of design and maintenance. You're confident leading contractors, navigating and learning new tasks and managing operational budgets. You may come from an engineering or operations background and be ready to step into a role where you can shape systems from scratch.

**You'll bring**:

- Five or more years hands-on facilities or property management experience
- Proven ability to lead technical projects and manage contractors
- An understanding of building compliance requirements
- Strong leadership and stakeholder engagement skills
- FMANZ membership or an engineering background (preferred)

You must have a current and full New Zealand driver licence (not temporary, learner, or provisional) or equivalent full foreign driver's licence, and any endorsements required for the type of driving you'll be doing.

**About the Team - Mo to matou Ropu**

The Property & Assets team sits within our Corporate Services business unit and manages MPI's properties and fleet across Aotearoa. While the team is spread nationwide, this role focuses on the Northern region from Kaitaia to Rotorua where you'll work across a diverse mix of buildings, including current and new laboratories in Auckland. You'll be trusted to work autonomously while maintaining strong communication with your manager to stay aligned and seek support when needed. The team values collaboration, continuous improvement, and delivering safe, sustainable environments that support MPI's strategic direction and public value.

**About MPI - Mo te Manatu Ahu Matua**

We're passionate about growing prosperity in the sector while ensuring respect for Kaitiaki - guardianship of our natural resources.

**Benefits of working at MPI - Nga hua o te mahi i te Manatu Ahu Matua**
- Additional MPI leave days
- Ability to purchase additional annual leave
- Annual Wellness payment

**Are you ready to make a difference? - Kua rite koe mo tenei mahi whaitake?**
We are committed to being a good partner under Te Tiriti o Waitangi which includes working closely with iwi, hapu, whanau and hapori.

In your cover letter we'd like to know about you, your values; your interest and motivations for this role; the abilities, strengths, personal attribute