Address- Permanent full time. Monday to Friday - 35 hour working week
- Enjoy non-for-profit salary packaging up to $15,900 per year
- Work with a supportive and collaborative team
- Make an impact every day
St George Community Housing (SGCH) provides sustainable, safe, and affordable housing as the foundation for our customers to connect to opportunities and build their communities. With a business head and a social heart, we deliver together with passion and purpose, guided by our values. Recognised as Employer of Choice (Public Sector and Not For Profit) at the 2022 Australian Business Awards, at SGCH you can realise your potential, whilst being supported to balance and achieve.
About the role and about youWe are looking for a Maintenance officer, Groundskeeper to join our Customers team, on a permanent full-time basis. This role will be primarily based in Milsons Point, and you will work as part of a team of Maintenance Officers and, from time to time may be called upon to work in other locations.
As an SGCH Maintenance Officer, Groundskeeper you are responsible for providing excellent customer service to our tenants by carrying out daily grounds maintenance in some of our larger residential common area properties, and developments.
Your duties will include but are not limited to:
- maintaining waste services, bin rotations and responding to garbage chute blockage issues in properties
- maintain common area grounds to a high standard including lawn mowing, edging, hedging, mulching and weeding and pressure washing and other common area cleaning
- may be required to support the Handypersons Team undertake minor repairs and maintenance duties in times of inclement weather (patching and painting, minor carpentry, small, odd jobs with the team, and small cleanups duties)
- work as part of a team of Maintenance Officers and, from time to time may be called upon to work in other locations.
The successful candidate for this role will have:
- current NSW driving license
- previous experience in lawns and grounds maintenance
- strong experience in garden maintenance
- experience on power tools and gardening machinery
- understanding of how to work to, and follow a schedule of work
- good understanding of WHS legislation
- good communication skills
- good organisational and time management skills, including the ability to prioritize tasks
If this sounds like you, please head to our website https://www.sgch.com.au/join-our-team/ to download the full position description for further details on the role and what’s on offer.
To apply for this role, please email a cover letter and your CV to ****@sgch.com.au by 9.00am Monday 13 May 2024.
SGCH is an Equal Opportunity employer. Diversity makes us stronger and we want an organisation that reflects the communities we serve.
SGCH has a Safety at Work: Vaccination Policy which makes vaccination against COVID-19 a condition of employment/engagement for all workers unless an exemption is granted under the policy. This condition also extends to maintaining vaccination through booster shots, if required in line with any public health orders or if SGCH assesses this is required to meet its duties under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW).
