Maintenance Officer

Maintenance Officer - The Wesley Hospital

Employment Term: Permanent Full Time
Location: Auchenflower, just 5 mins from Toowong Shopping Village and 10 mins from Brisbane City
Remuneration: $34.94 - $35.99 p/h + 12% Super + NFP Salary Packaging (save tax and increase your take home pay)
Applications Close: 14th August 2026

Make a meaningful difference with The Wesley Private Hospital 

The Wesley Hospital is one of Australia’s iconic and largest private not-for-profit hospitals. From the heart of Brisbane, more than 800 Visiting Medical Practitioners and 2,000 staff deliver personalised care through life’s journey making a meaningful difference in the lives of generations of Queenslanders.  We offer comprehensive care across a wide range of acute tertiary-level medical and surgical services with a particular focus on cancer care, cardiac care, women’s and children’s care, and complex surgical care. This includes the busiest robotic surgery program and the first Robotic Surgery Centre of Excellence accredited in Australia. 

An integral part of our team, as a Maintenance Officer, you’ll be encouraged to grow, develop and feel empowered to make the everyday easier for the people we care so passionately about.  Let’s make a meaningful difference, together!  

Your part in The Wesley Hospital

Maintenance Officers are responsible for a variety of preventative, scheduled and reactive requests to maintain and service UCH property, including buildings, grounds, infrastructure and equipment. Maintenance Officers will demonstrate a broad skillset to perform activities required and work individually or as part of a team. Work performed will be under limited supervision from a certified tradesperson or supervisor and may require supervision of a Maintenance or Grounds Assistant. Work undertaken will be conducted to the highest standards of repair, presentation and hygiene.

• Undertake routine preventative or scheduled maintenance activity promptly and to the highest standard to ensure all employees and visitors safety while at our facilities.

• Work undertaken may include but not be limited to:
  o Maintenance and repairs of hospital buildings and equipment such as minor wall repairs, patching, painting and cleaning
  o Non licenced repairs such as resolving water leaks and concrete/paving repairs;
  o Conducting critical plant checks (where trained to do so)
  o Servicing air handling units, pumps and fans
  o Assisting tradespersons as required and responding promptly to reactive maintenance requirements, including minor department and common area maintenance, for example servicing taps, changing light globes and other minor repairs.

• Ensure all plant, fittings and equipment meet regulatory compliance standards.

• Respond to maintenance requests in a timely manner with work undertaken to a high standard.

• Ensuring all work activity is documented/logged in the asset management system.

What makes a difference for us?

• Demonstrated experience in a similar role including broad maintenance skills to address basic carpentry, plumbing and or motor maintenance.

• Certificate in Facilities, Building or Construction 

• Desirable to have experience in healthcare.

• Current Australian driver’s license .

• Willingness to obtain required vaccinations in line with hospitals infection control requirements, as well as undergo national criminal history check and functional assessment

What makes a difference for you? 

• NFP Salary Packaging: Save tax and increase your take home pay by salary packaging your everyday living expenses and bills (up to $15,900) and meal entertainment (up to $2,650) per annum. To learn more about this benefit watch the video via the following link: Salary Packaging Explained

• Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance 

• A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers, including everyday expenses, holidays, health insurance, annual awards celebration, wellbeing and employee assistance programs  

• 12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave, available after 6 months service, in addition to the government scheme  

• Diversity and inclusive leave, offering paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options (paid and unpaid) for those who may celebrate Lunar New Year, Diwali, Ramadan, NAIDOC weeks and other significant cultural events  

• Career development opportunities to challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference   

• A positive and inclusive team based on respect, shared standards, strong values and a commitment to serving others 

We’d love you to be part of our UnitingCare family   

By joining our Hospitals, you’ll also be welcomed as part of the UnitingCare family. The second-largest Queensland employer, we’re a proud not-for-profit with more than 17,500 staff and 9, 000 volunteers across our brands of BlueCare, Lifeline, ARRCS, The Wesley Hospital, Buderim Private Hospital, St Stephen’s Hospital, and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, and have been leading by example for more than 100 years. Our team are compassionate, inclusive and committed to the work we do, helping people live life in all its fullness. 

Child safe, Child friendly 

UnitingCare is committed to being a Child Safe, Child Friendly organisation and will:  

• provide welcoming, safe and nurturing services for children  

• implement measures to prevent child abuse and neglect within our services 

• appropriately and immediately address child abuse and neglect if it does occur 

• abide by the Child Safe Standards and adhere to the Reportable Conduct Scheme  

Diversity & Inclusion   

Our approach is simple – everybody is welcome here.  At UnitingCare, diversity is at the core of our who we are, our mission and our values. We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees no matter their sex, race, culture, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity. Demonstrating our commitment to reconciliation and building long-term employment opportunities for First Nations peoples, UnitingCare strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants for this position.   

Safe workplace   

We work hard to make our services welcoming and safe for every person. We are united in keeping children, young people and the elderly safe from harm, within our services, workplaces and the communities we support. We are committed to speaking up loudly for their safety.   

Commitment to Safeguarding

We are committed in creating services and workplaces that are welcoming and safe for every person. We work together to protect children, young people, adults and the elderly from harm within our services and the communities we support. We speak up for their safety to ensure their voices are heard. Our recruitment and workplace practices reflect our dedication in preventing abuse, harm and exploitation across UnitingCare.