Civil Design Team Leader

Full Time Permanent Position
Band 7 - Salary Range $103,521 to $115,711 per annum + 11% Super + RDO
Salary offered will depend on level of skills and experience.
About Melton City Council
The City of Melton is a community where everyone belongs. Ours is a vibrant and diverse municipality—one of the fastest developing in Australia. Our organisation strives to provide our community with state-of-the-art amenity and facilities, engaging health and wellbeing options, and support to become active members of our Lifelong Learning City.
We invest in innovation, offering professional and personal development, and generous leave and flexibility to staff, while also fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture. You’ll be able to work close to home in a dynamic setting featuring cafes and retail options set amongst heritage buildings and open green spaces.
The Opportunity
City of Melton is looking for a motivated and responsive Civil Design Team Leader with experience in the design of road and drainage assets. Supervising a team of Design, Drainage, Graduate and Students Engineers you will be primarily responsible for the management of Council’s Civil Design projects.
Reporting to the Design & Infrastructure Coordinator you will have key role in delivering projects that improve liveability and connect our rapidly growing community.
Key Responsibilities

• Ensure appropriate allocation of design resources, both internal and external, to successfully deliver the engineering design program.
• Check engineering designs provided by Consultants, Design and Drainage Engineers, Graduate Engineers and Student Engineers, ensuring compliance with Council policy, engineering standards and codes of practice.
• Manage consultants engaged to undertake Civil Design projects that form part of the annual capital works program, including procurement, evaluation and contract administration in accordance with Council’s Procurement Policy.
• Arrange, coordinate and review geotechnical investigations, engineering surveys. CHMPs, Ecological studies and Planning approvals for allocated projects within the capital works program as required to ensuring timely completion for construction.
• Manage Design staff to thoroughly investigate customer requests such as drainage and stormwater flooding issues in a timely manner and develop and implement solutions in accordance with industry best practice, Council policy and budgetary requirements to ensure Council is pro-active and responsive to community needs and expectations.

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About you
To be successful in this role you will have the following:

• Tertiary Qualification in Civil Engineering with substantial experience in a relevant field.
• Extensive design experience relating to small and large civil engineering projects.
• Proven experience in project and contract management relating to civil engineering projects.
• Demonstrated time management and organisational skills to achieve objectives.

Culture and Values
Our vision for our community is to be: "A vibrant, safe and liveable city accessible to all" and that means there’s a place here for you too. Our organisational values represent us as an established growth Council and the values are reflected in everything we do; our decision-making, our actions and our service provision to the community. Council has a diverse and vibrant organisation and we’d love to have you join us to help shape a city for the future.
We are Vibrant MELTON. Our values are:

• Motivate
• Empower
• Lead
• Trust
• Open
• Nurture

Benefits
There are a number of great reasons why our people love working at Melton City Council:

• 19 Day Month
• 4 weeks and 2 days annual leave (As of 1st of July 2024 will increase to 5 weeks)
• Flexible Working Hours
• Extensive Career Development & Leadership Programs
• 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave (Super is paid during parental leave)
• 3 weeks Paid Secondary Carer Leave
• Family Room available including Breastfeeding Facilities (

) * Wellbeing initiatives

• Subsidised Uniforms

How To Apply
If you require further information about the position, please contact Colin Marshall, Acting Manager Operations on 9747 5736.
Applications must include a Resume and address the Key Selection Criteria outlining your suitability to the role. To address the Key Selection Criteria, you will need to write short statements explaining how you meet the criteria, or how you demonstrate the capability. We encourage you to keep your responses concise.
To be eligible for employment at Melton City Council you must be legally entitled to work in Australia.
All successful applicants will need to undertake pre-employment requirements including but not limited to a satisfactory criminal history record check. Successful applicants must be able to comply with any COVID-19 Public Health Orders applicable to Local Government employees and Council’s COVID-19 vaccination policy which require employees to provide documentary evidence of their vaccination status before attending the workplace.
We strongly encourage job applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, LGBTIQA+ and people from culturally diverse backgrounds. If selected for an interview and you require any additional support or adjustments regarding interview arrangements, please advise the contact listed above in advance.
Melton City Council is committed to being a child safe organisation and has Zero tolerance for child abuse. Melton City Council is committed to creating and maintaining a child safe organisation where protecting children and preventing and responding to child abuse is at the centre of our everyday thinking and service delivery.
Applications close 11:59pm Wednesday 24 January 2024