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SalaryPermanent Full-Time (76 hours per fortnight)
From $60,173pa (plus 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 Skilled Construction Worker (Maintenance) will work in a team, on the maintenance and construction of Council’s roads and related infrastructure.
Reporting to the Team Leader (Maintenance) you will:
- Receive and act on written work orders or verbal instructions from the Manager of Infrastructure Delivery or other assigned supervisor.
- Work as part of a Maintenance team to maintain, repair and construct unsealed road pavements, primarily through the operation of a roller.
- Install, maintain, remove and/or replace new or damaged signs, guardrails, guide posts, fences, barriers and other temporary or permanent structures on roads, bridges, footpaths and other areas under Council's control.
- Install, clean and repair minor drainage systems and structures such as pipes, channels, pits, culverts, surface and subsurface drains, by removing silt and debris, excavating and preparing sites, and positioning, aligning, joining and sealing pipe or culvert sections, or using other means to construct and maintain drainage devices.
- Construct and repair concrete structures such as traffic islands, footpaths and roundabouts, using manual or mechanical means to break up and remove old or damaged concrete, prepares sites and subgrade material, sets formwork, places reinforcing steel, and mixes, pours, spreads, screeds and finishes concrete.
- Control or remove roadside vegetation by performing activities such as mowing, slashing and trimming grass, maintaining firebreaks, lopping tree limbs, removing trees and shrubs, and spraying herbicides to control noxious / environmental weeds and minimise vegetation growth.
- Direct the flow of traffic at work sites, including the use of stop / go signs to regulate traffic flow and maintain safety.
- Perform routine maintenance and repairs to plant and equipment and assists Council's workshop staff with major services and repairs as required.
- Assist with major road construction works when required, including control of traffic at worksites, performing routine labouring duties, and operating small to medium size plant items.
Specifically, you will have:
Essential
- Class C driver’s licence (Car Licence)
- Demonstrated ability to competently operate a variety of power tools and minor plant items to complete routine maintenance and construction tasks
- An understanding of basic mechanical principles and the ability to perform routine maintenance and minor repairs on plant and equipment
- Ability to read and comprehend written instructions and procedures and accurately complete maintenance records and other routine forms
- Safe Work NSW Certificate in General WHS Induction
- Certificate III in Civil Construction (Road Construction and Maintenance)
- Class MR Driver's License (Medium Rigid)
- Demonstrated ability to set out levels, erect formwork, and pour and finish concrete to a high standard using a variety of finishing methods
- Accreditations / certificates or previous experience in: Traffic Control; Chainsaw Operations; Chemical User Certificate; Heavy Plant operation
- Applications close: 5:00pm on Monday 1 April 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 Luke Eliot, Maintenance Works Coordinator on (0403) 202 504
- 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).
Bernard Smith - General Manager
Promoting a safe and healthy workplace
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