About Aspire

Aspire Early Education & Kindergarten is a growing provider of high quality early education and care. As our network of centres continues to expand, we are looking for a highly organised and proactive Facilities & Defects Coordinator to join our Facilities team.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys working across multiple sites, coordinating contractors and maintenance activities, solving problems and ensuring facilities remain safe, compliant and well presented.

About the Role

Reporting to the Facilities Manager, the Facilities & Defects Coordinator will support facilities operations across Aspire Early Education centres, with a particular focus on new centre defects, fit outs, reactive and planned maintenance and facilities compliance.

You will work closely with Centre Managers, our internal maintenance team, builders, developers, landlords and external contractors to ensure facilities matters are managed efficiently from identification through to resolution.

With Aspire continuing to grow, this role offers plenty of variety and the opportunity to be involved with both newly constructed centres and our existing portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Coordinate and monitor defects following the handover of newly constructed centres

• Liaise with builders, developers and contractors to ensure defects are rectified within agreed timeframes

• Maintain accurate defect registers and conduct site inspections

• Assist with new centre fit outs, including coordinating furniture, fixtures, equipment, contractors and operational requirements

• Coordinate reactive and planned maintenance across multiple Aspire centres

• Monitor maintenance requests and ensure works are progressed through to completion

• Coordinate specialist contractors and external service providers

• Support preventative maintenance programs

• Assist with Essential Safety Measures compliance and statutory inspections, testing and servicing

• Maintain accurate facilities, maintenance, defects and compliance records

• Support workplace inspections, risk assessments and emergency planning requirements

• Build strong relationships with Centre Managers, Support Office teams, contractors, landlords and builders

• Assist with quotations, expenditure tracking, reporting and recommendations

• • Identify outstanding facilities risks and ensure issues are appropriately escalated and actioned