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Facilities Administrator resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what facilities administrators actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.
Which resume format should you use?
Reverse chronological
You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.
Functional
You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.
Combination
You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.
This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most facilities administrators should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Facilities Administrator with a background in coordinating building services, contractors and compliance records across multi-site workplaces. Strengths in CMMS administration, preventive maintenance scheduling and stakeholder liaison, with a practical understanding of WHS and essential services obligations. Known for keeping asset registers and service records audit ready.
Key skills
- Operations management
- Regulatory compliance
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Computerised maintenance management systems (CMMS)
- Archibus
- SAP
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Outlook
- Stakeholder management
- Written communication
- Attention to detail
- Customer service
Experience: example bullet points
- Coordinated reactive and preventive maintenance for a portfolio of 12 buildings, logging jobs in the CMMS and keeping contractor response times within agreed service levels.
- Rebuilt the asset register and essential services schedule for a six-floor office, bringing overdue compliance checks from around 30 down to zero within two quarters.
- Managed access pass and security systems for 400 staff and contractors, including onboarding, deactivation and after-hours access requests.
- Processed purchase orders and invoices for facilities services, matching quotes to work completed and resolving discrepancies with suppliers before payment.
- Liaised with tenants and building management on service interruptions, issuing clear notices and coordinating access for trades.
- Ran weekly cleaning schedule audits across three sites, cutting missed service reports from around 15 a month to fewer than two.
Education
Certificate IV in Business or Facilities Management is the most common qualification, though many facilities administrators enter with Year 12 and build skills on the job; a Diploma of Facilities Management or Business Administration is also well regarded.
Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.
- facilities management
- CMMS
- Archibus
- SAP
- preventive maintenance
- reactive maintenance
- asset register
- essential services
- WHS compliance
- contractor management
- access control
- tenancy liaison
- purchase orders
- invoice processing
- building compliance
- Australian Standards
- fire safety
- stakeholder management
- work orders
Getting past ATS screening
- Match the specific skills, certifications and terms used in the job ad, not just your own wording for the same thing.
- Keep formatting simple: no tables, text boxes, columns, headers/footers or graphics. Parsers frequently drop content placed in these.
- Submit as .docx or PDF unless the job ad specifies otherwise.
- Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) rather than creative alternatives.
- List your core skills and technical competencies in their own section so a keyword scan can find them instantly.
This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.