{"id":15607,"date":"2022-01-27T12:07:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T12:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocs.com\/au\/?p=15607"},"modified":"2024-04-29T03:56:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T02:56:18","slug":"new-general-manager-for-ocs-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocs.com\/au\/news\/new-general-manager-for-ocs-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"New General Manager for OCS Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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International facilities management company, OCS Australia, welcomes Stephen Lockley to the role of General Manager Australia.<\/p>\n

Steve is an experienced people leader with strategic management experience across both soft and hard services, including cleaning, integrated facilities management plus mechanical and electrical.<\/p>\n

He has worked across multiple sectors, managing services in healthcare, manufacturing, retail, remote sites, corporate, government, utilities and education.<\/p>\n

His recent senior management experience has included roles with Ventia in Australia and New Zealand, ISS in Asia, and Sodexo in Australia.<\/p>\n

Gareth Marriott, Managing Director OCS Australia and New Zealand said the new role was testament to the company\u2019s focus on growing the Australian arm of the global business.<\/p>\n

\u201cAustralia is an important strategic market for OCS. We have been operating here since 1998, growing to more than 350 sites across the country while delivering the same quality service and family values that our founders set back in 1900.<\/p>\n

\u201cSteve brings with him strategic strengths to support and grow our market share across key sectors and assisting in driving our acquisition strategy. He has the depth of experience we need to continue to innovate, to excite our customers and deliver quality solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steve Lockley said he\u2019s excited about joining the OCS family and working with the Australian team.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to meeting the team and our many clients and working together to deliver quality solutions and great service.\u201d Steve said that he believes that \u201cthere is currently a real opportunity in the market and having the support an international company will help to accelerate profitable growth across multiple business sectors\u201d.<\/p>\n

Steve joined OCS Australia on 24 January 2022.<\/p>\n <\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":10000015974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,19],"tags":[208,228,193],"country":[223],"class_list":["post-15607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","category-news-type","tag-appointment","tag-australia","tag-leadership","country-australia"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nNew General Manager for OCS Australia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"International facilities management company, OCS Australia, welcomes Stephen Lockley to the role of General Manager Australia.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ocs.com\/au\/news\/new-general-manager-for-ocs-australia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New General Manager for OCS Australia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"International facilities management company, OCS Australia, welcomes Stephen Lockley to the role of General Manager Australia.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/ocs.com\/au\/news\/new-general-manager-for-ocs-australia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"OCS - 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