Management Team

Justin Chambers - General Manager Justin Chambers has a long history in Comprehensive Maintenance Services having managed a number of contracts across a variety of industries including Hospitality, Hospitals and Aged Care as well as Secondary and Tertiary Education facilities. Having worked in the hospitality and services industry for over 20 years, Justin has been involved in many facility management projects throughout his career with a strong track record of achieving the necessary outcomes for a highly successful business.
Paul Lee - Project Manager Paul Lee gained most of his extensive experience in mining and heavy industry, where he managed all aspects of best practice maintenance technologies and operations. These two industries are regarded as among the most rigorous in their training and their demands for management that can maintain production in facilities infrastructure in isolated sites. He worked in several countries as Technical Officer, Maintenance Planner, Site Engineer and Business Analyst. Among his many achievements, Paul has... Managed the engineering and maintenance of a 1.2million tonne per annum underground mine including a 300 person self-contained village complex. Successfully implemented several comprehensive maintenance improvement programmes and computerised maintenance management systems. Project-managed several multi-million dollar lump sum turn key construction projects. And helped implement a multi-million dollar integrated software package for Normandy mining's nine sites across Australia and New Zealand.
Norm Guy - Project Manager Norm has an extensive background in providing corporate administrative support, particularly in the areas of finance and accounting, and information technology analysis. His previous employment includes positions as Chief Financial Officer for a major insurer and Associate Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he managed investigations into workplace accidents. In addition to his current position with FM Solutions, Norm is an active member of the Audit and Risk Management Committee for Queensland’s Workers’ Compensation regulator, QComp. His key career achievements include: re-engineering of business practices through the implementation of cultural change and commercial principles to reduce bureaucracy and improve customer service; project management of significant information technology strategy change; successful implementation of new financial management systems and processes to achieve best practice in budgeting, financial planning and reporting; financial ‘what-if’ modeling to enhance decision-making; and the review and implementation of improved organisational structures to enhance customer service.  Norm has also had exposure to the implementation of facility management improvements from the client’s perspective. In his role as Chief Financial Officer, he recognised the need for the building facilities to be better managed and set about to introduce a single vendor outsourcing arrangement. His regret is that FM Solutions was not around at the time to assist. This practical experience from the client’s perspective helps to ensure administrative systems; procedures and reporting are developed with the customer in mind.

 

David Leifer - Research Manager   David Leifer coordinates the Graduate Programme in Facilities Management at the University of Sydney. He was one of the earliest advocates for professional FM in Australia being the 31st member of the IFMAA (which developed into the FMA) in 1990, and was Queensland Chairman in 1991/2. Currently he is a member of the FM Action Agenda Implementation Committee for Education.   He was one of the researchers and writers of ‘FM as a business enabler: Solutions for managing the built environment’ which studied FM practices at the Sydney Opera House, a project undertaken by the CRC-CI and FMA Australia   David is a Registered Architect and an Incorporated Engineer. He has B.Sc, B.Arch, M.Ed, and Ph.D degrees. He has worked on Energy Efficiency and was on the committee that wrote NZ4243:1996 Energy Efficiency – Large Buildings. He was Chairman of the NZ chapter of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers 1997-1999.

Bobby Birdi - Maintenance Planning Engineer Bobby Birdi is based in FM Solutions’ Brisbane office. Having achieved a BEng Honours Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Bobby worked for the British Airports Authority in various maintenance related roles for 11 years until December 2005.  Prior to joining FM Solutions Bobby worked as a Maintenance Consultant with GHD PTY, an international professional services company. He specialises in Maintenance Planning, Maintenance Process Development, Reliability Centred Maintenance and Computerised Maintenance Management System / Computer Aided Facility Management System (CMMS & CAFM) implementation. Areas of Expertise Maintenance strategy development and implementation Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Maintenance of airport facilities, Criticality Analysis Reliability Centred Maintenance Implementation (RCM) Computer Aided Facility Management System / Computerised Maintenance Management System Implementation (Maximo Versions, 3, 4 & 5, MEX, JD Edwards, ACCPAC Service Manager)