​What is a Building Services Manager?

A Building Services Manager often work alongside Estimator and Construction Delivery teams and are responsible for ensuring affordability, efficiency and quality across the design, installation and maintenance of essential systems. Systems can include, Water, gas and electricity supplies, Lighting, heating and air-conditioning, ICT, Security systems and Lifts and escalators.

What are the typical duties and activities for a Building Services Manager?

From employer to employer the job description of a Building Services Manager will vary, however typical duties and activities undertaken include:

  • Reviewing installation plans and specifications to ensure that they deliver what the building/client needs

  • Reviewing prices for services work

  • Testing and checking installations

  • Making sure jobs meet building regulations and health and safety requirements

  • Attending meetings and presenting ideas and progress reports to managers and clients

Skills required to be a successful Building Services Manager

To be successful as a Building Services Manager, the below skills are important;

  • Technically minded

  • Good team working skills

  • Effectively communicate - verbal and written

  • Relationship building

  • Stakeholder management

How can we help with your Building Services Manager job search?

For over 15 years we have specialised in securing contract and permanent opportunities for Building Services Managers across the Construction, Civils, Rail, Power and Telecoms sectors.

Working globally with the largest contractors, consultancies, along with many infrastructure owners and operators, we are ideally positioned to work with talented Building Services Managers and secure the market's leading Building Services Manager opportunities.

With a reputation for being experts in the sectors that we operate, we are also renowned for consistently delivering the right opportunities to our candidates, working proactively in order to give our candidates the edge in a competitive marketplace.

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​The Sunshine Coast is located in South East Queensland and lies 62miles north of Brisbane. In 2021 the Sunshine Coast had an estimated population of 398,000, which makes it the 9th most populous area in Australia.

The Sunshine Coast has seen numerous large scale construction projects over the past couple of years and has multiple large constructions projects in the pipeline, such as:

Caloundra South Priority Development Area

Aura is a master planned community being established on 2,310 hectares south of the existing Caloundra urban area, Caloundra Aerodrome and Sunshine Coast Industrial Park. Aura is the largest residential development project in Australia at this time and will provide approximately 20,000 dwellings for around 50,000 people. This project is estimated to create 20,000 jobs and cost in the region of A$3 billion.

Blue Heart Sunshine Coast

This is an innovative partnership-based project, committed to sustainable and adaptive floodplain management in the Maroochy River catchment. It is a place, a project and a partnership. The Blue Heart provides flood storage for the Maroochy River Catchment. Preserving flood storage within this area is critical to the ongoing flood management of the catchment and in particular the built environment.

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