Assets & Facilities Coordinator
The role:
This role ensures Council’s corporate facilities are safe, compliant, and fit for purpose by coordinating day-to-day operations, maintenance, and asset lifecycle activities. You’ll support effective service delivery through contractor oversight, asset system coordination, and accurate reporting, including corporate emissions data.
Working closely with the Assets & Facilities Team Leader, you’ll play a key role in supporting asset management initiatives and improving how we manage our facilities and equipment across the organisation.
This is a permanent position based in Palmerston North and includes participation in a shared across the team, after-hours Asset Duty Officer roster, with occasional travel across the region.
This role plays a key part in ensuring our people have safe, functional, and well-managed facilities to work from. Your contribution will support better service delivery, stronger asset management, and more sustainable operations across the organisation.
What you’ll be doing:
- Coordinating day-to-day facilities operations and maintenance.
- Supporting asset life-cycle management across buildings, plant, and equipment.
- Managing contractors and service providers to deliver safe, compliant outcomes.
- Maintaining and improving asset and facilities systems.
- Supporting procurement and administration of corporate assets.
- Contributing to asset management initiatives and efficiency projects.
- Assisting with emissions data collection and sustainability reporting.
- Participating in the after-hours duty roster and responding to urgent issues.
Why join us?
When you join us, you can look forward to a rewarding career full of opportunities to develop a positive and supportive work environment. We do this through:
- Positive focus on employee health, wellness and wellbeing initiatives across the organisation including your birthday off, wellbeing day, life insurance for all permanent staff and 5 weeks leave after 2 years of service.
- Flexible, family friendly work environment.
- Ongoing development and opportunities across the organisation to grow, specialise or diversify your skills.
- Working together for a better environment across our region.
- A supportive and social work environment across the organisation.
About you:
You’ll bring a practical, organised approach and be comfortable working across teams to get things done.
- At least 3 years’ experience in asset or facilities management (or similar).
- Strong organisational and communication skills.
- Experience supporting projects, planning, or operational delivery.
- A proactive, solutions-focused mindset with attention to detail.
- Experience with budgets and health & safety practices.
- Knowledge of local government and asset management systems (advantageous).
About us:
The Horizons region extends over 22,200km2 – from Ruapehu in the north and Horowhenua in the south, to Whanganui in the west and Tararua in the east. We work with and for our community in the use and protection of our environment, managing our precious resources of land, air and water, as well as public transport and a key role in emergency management. At Horizons Regional Council we work to make our region a healthy environment where people are thriving, including our staff.
Horizons are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to ensuring we have a diverse and inclusive workplace, so our people reflect the diversity of our region.
