Manager Building and Facilities

Full-time, Ongoing, EL1 position
$121,755 – $132,713 per annum plus 15.4% superannuation
Australia’s leading museum located waterside in beautiful Darling Harbour

About the Australian National Maritime Museum

As one of Sydney’s most visited museums, Australian National Maritime Museum shares Australia’s rich maritime story with audiences across the nation and around the world through immersive onsite experiences, digital engagement, research, presentations, and travelling exhibitions. Welcoming more than 2.5 million visitors each year, the Museum connects people with the oceans and waterways that have shaped Australia’s identity from deep time to the present and into the future supported by a passionate community of staff, volunteers, members, and educators dedicated to inspiring curiosity, connection, and discovery. Learn more at sea.museum.

About the Role

As the Manager, Building and Facilities, you will lead the Museum’s facilities and maintenance operations, ensuring safe, high-performing, and welcoming spaces for staff, visitors, and partners. Driving a diverse portfolio of capital works and operational improvement projects, you will play a key role in shaping the Museum’s future by delivering projects on time, within budget, and to the highest standards of quality and compliance. With expertise in project governance, procurement, contract management, scheduling, and risk management, you will bring people, systems, and priorities together to deliver practical solutions and continuous improvement across the organisation. Working collaboratively with internal teams, contractors, and suppliers, you will build strong partnerships, provide strategic leadership, and help create the environments that support world-class Museum experiences for millions of visitors each year.

Selection Criteria
The successful candidate will demonstrate their capacity against the following:

1. Demonstrated leadership and management capability, including leading multidisciplinary teams, setting clear direction, building capability, and fostering an inclusive, collaborative and high-performing culture that delivers quality outcomes.
2. Proven experience leading and overseeing complex building, facilities, safety and security projects, exercising independent judgement to deliver outcomes aligned with organisational priorities, governance requirements and risk settings.
3. Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain governance and risk management arrangements, including project controls, reporting, assurance and executive visibility across complex delivery environments.
4. Strong experience providing high quality and evidence-based advice and recommendations to senior stakeholders, supporting informed decision-making and effective delivery of complex projects and initiatives.
5. Well-developed stakeholder engagement, negotiation and commercial capability, including managing procurement and contract arrangements in compliance with the CPRs and PGPA Act, balancing competing priorities, and achieving value for money and compliant outcomes.

What You’ll Bring

– Qualifications and/or certification in project management (e.g., PRINCE2, Agile, PMBOK) or equivalent demonstrated experience.
– Demonstrated experience leading teams or supervising staff, including performance and capability development.
– Experience in building, facilities, safety or asset management environments, particularly in complex operational settings.

How to Apply

Applying via our online e-recruitment system and provide a written application addressing each Selection Criteria. Your current resume is also to be included in your application.
In addition to an application and your resume, the assessment process for this position may also include an interview and referee reports.

Applications Close: 11:30pm AEST, Wednesday 27 May 2026. No applications will be accepted by mail or email.