Queensland Children's Hospital | South Brisbane
Hourly Rate: $55.51 + Overtime Penalties + Tool Allowance + Retention Bonus: $5,000.00
Join the team responsible for maintaining one of Australia's most complex healthcare facilities. As a Maintenance Plumber at Queensland Children's Hospital, you'll work on critical hydraulic infrastructure that directly supports patient care, infection prevention, clinical operations, and essential hospital services.
This is more than a traditional maintenance plumbing role. You'll gain exposure to specialised healthcare systems, advanced water treatment infrastructure, steam sterilisation services, medical support systems, and healthcare compliance requirements within a multidisciplinary engineering environment.
Whether you're currently working in commercial maintenance, industrial facilities, or critical infrastructure, this role offers the opportunity to further develop your technical skills while building a long-term career in healthcare facilities management.
About the Role
As a Maintenance Plumber, you will be responsible for delivering planned, reactive, and corrective maintenance across the Queensland Children's Hospital precinct. You will play a key role in ensuring the safe, reliable, and compliant operation of hydraulic systems that support patient care and hospital operations.
- Perform planned, preventative, corrective, and reactive maintenance on plumbing and hydraulic systems.
- Diagnose faults and undertake repairs to critical building services infrastructure.
- Complete statutory inspections, testing, and preventative maintenance activities.
- Maintain accurate maintenance records using the Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
- Participate in after-hours call-out and emergency response activities as required.
- Ensure all work is completed safely and in accordance with site procedures, Australian Standards, legislative requirements, and healthcare compliance obligations.
- Support specialist subcontractors undertaking specialist maintenance works.
- Identify opportunities to improve asset reliability, efficiency, and system performance.
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and asset lifecycle planning.
- Assist in maintaining compliance with healthcare water quality management programs, hydraulic statutory requirements, and infection prevention controls.
- Support monitoring and maintenance of critical water systems to minimise operational and clinical risk.
Skills & Experience
- Trade qualified Plumber with a current QBCC Plumbing Licence includingBackflow Prevention andThermostatic Mixing Valve (TMV) Endorsement
- Gas Work Licence(Desirable)
- Current unrestricted Australian Driver's Licence
- Experience in commercial, healthcare, industrial, facilities maintenance, or critical infrastructure environments
- Strong fault-finding and troubleshooting skills
- Experience performing preventative and reactive maintenance
- Ability to read and interpret hydraulic drawings, technical manuals, and maintenance procedures
- Experience using CMMS platforms such as QFM, SAP, Pronto, Maximo, or similar
- Strong commitment to safety, compliance, and quality workmanship
- Ability to work independently and within a multidisciplinary team
- Excellent communication and customer service skills procedures
Why Join Us?
- Monday to Friday roster with 7.6-hour day shifts,Overtime opportunities with applicable penalty rates
- Work within a major hospital environment
- Stable, long-term facilities management contract
- Strong career development opportunities
- Access to employee discounts and salary packaging benefits
- Supportive team culture focused on safety, reliability, and patient care
We are committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible for all.
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