Gisc221 - Heavy Plant Operator (Drainage) - Closes 4 March 2024

Permanent Full-Time (76 hours per fortnight)
From $62,343 per annum (includes super) * Allowances and Overtime

• Nine Day Fortnight

Council offers a wide range of benefits such as salary packaging (including novated motor vehicle leasing and remote area housing benefits), health and wellbeing programs and employee vaccinations to employees.
Do you want to be part of something challenging and rewarding? Are you passionate about our community? If so, joining the Glen Innes Severn Council might be the right career move for you.
Working for Council means you'll be joining a dedicated team where your individual effort is part of something much bigger – delivering great things for our community.
The Council covers an area of 5,487km2, and is located in the beautiful New England area of NSW. This area encompasses the town of Glen Innes and villages of Deepwater, Emmaville, Glencoe, Wellingrove and Red Range. We're proud of the contribution our community makes to this vibrant, dynamic and attractive area in which to live and work.
Glen Innes offers an attractive lifestyle including a well serviced and friendly rural community, laid back living, short commuting times, affordable housing, easy access to NSW north coast beaches and larger regional centres, and terrific recreational and sporting facilities.
A GREAT PLACE TO WORK
As part of our team you will have the opportunity to make a real difference to our community, working with a diverse range of passionate, supportive and engaging people within a collaborative environment. You will also be part of a workplace that offers competitive employee benefits and opportunities and encourages professional development including:

• Salary packaging (including novated motor vehicle leasing and remote area housing benefits) for all permanent staff
• Long service leave after 5 years
• Corporate wellbeing programs
• Employee vaccinations
• PPE supplied
• Training and development programs
• Education assistance

THE POSITION
This challenging position will operate Heavy Plant such as an excavators, trucks, rollers backhoes and skid steer loaders, and operates a variety of other small to medium sized plant and equipment, to assist in the safe and efficient construction and maintenance of Council’s drainage infrastructure.
Reporting to the Team Leader (Drainage) you will:

• Receive and act on written work orders or verbal instructions from the Maintenance Works Coordinator, Drainage Team Leader or other assigned supervisor.
• Operate Heavy Plant such as an excavator, backhoe, skid steer loader, rollers, trucks or similar to construct or maintain Council infrastructure, with a focus on road drainage infrastructure. This includes open drains and culverts.
• Estimate the quantities and weights of loose materials such as soil, rock and gravel, and loads the correct quantities and weights of materials onto trucks, trailers or other locations.
• Correctly install, extend or repair pipes, box culvert units and headwalls including placing, joining, backfilling and grouting of precast products.
• Perform routine day-to-day inspections, cleaning, maintenance and repairs to assigned plant and equipment to maximise the reliable and useful life of machines and their accessories, including checking and changing all oil levels, lubricating parts, changing filters, checking hydraulic fluids, etc. Assists Council's workshop staff with major services and repairs as required
• Ensure that all work conforms to required safety standards, including completion of risk assessments and site specific training for employees / contractors, installation and maintenance of signage, and implementation of Work Method Statements and Traffic Control Plans.
• Participate in staff meetings, essential training and overtime / call out work as required.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Specifically, you will have:
Essential

• Current Class MR Drivers Licence (Medium Rigid)
• Demonstrated ability to competently operate Heavy Plant to excavate, level, shape and compact work sites and trenches
• Ability to read and comprehend written instructions and procedures and accurately complete maintenance records and other routine forms
• Ability to accurately estimate the quantities and weights of loose materials such as soil, rock and gravel, and load the correct quantities and weights
• An understanding of basic mechanical principles and the ability to perform routine maintenance and minor repairs on plant and equipment
• Essential qualifications and licenses sufficient to enable operation of relevant Heavy Plant on work sites
• Safe Work NSW WHS General Construction Induction (White Card)

Desirable

• Demonstrated ability to use levelling equipment to set out levels to the standards and specifications given in engineering plans
• Class HR Drivers License (Heavy Rigid)
• Certificates/accreditations in:

• Dogman’s Certificate of Competence
• Work Safely Near Powerlines UETTDREL14Traffic Controller
• Implement Traffic Control Plans
• Chainsaw Operations (Cross Cutting)
• Chemical Use

HOW TO APPLY

• Applications close: 5:00pm on Monday 4 March 2024
• Carefully read the Information Package to familiarise yourself with the role and application process
• Please ensure that you attach a copy of a recent resume
• Position specific enquiries may be directed to Tony Kamphorst, Manager of Infrastructure Delivery on (0409) 561 082 or email akamphorst@gisc.nsw.gov.au
• Any enquiries relating to the application process may be directed to Helen Stapleton on (02) 6730 2303 or email jobs@gisc.nsw.gov.au
• Please note that as part of Glen Innes Severn Council's recruitment process, prior to an offer of employment being made, recommended candidates will be required to undertake referee checks, police checks and a functional assessment with Council’s physiotherapist.
• All correspondence will be via the email address you supply as part of your application, therefore please ensure that the email address is valid and that you check it regularly (please be sure to check your junk email also).

Council is an EEO employer. Women, Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders, people with a disability, and members of racial, ethnic, and ethno-religious minority groups are encouraged to apply.
Bernard Smith - General Manager
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