Road Management Officer

Hume City Council

To become a truly customer-first organisation.

Hume City Council is one of Australia's fastest-growing and culturally-diverse communities and is home to around 258,000 residents.

Spanning a total area of 504 square kilometres, Hume City is located in Melbourne’s northern fringe, just 15 kilometres from the centre of Melbourne.

The City's rich history stretches back over 40,000 years, when the indigenous communities of the Gunung-Willam-Balluk first inhabited the region.

Job Description

• Permanent Full Time
• $73,776 per annum plus Superannuation
• Join the Technical Services team. Hume City Council is one of Australia’s fastest growing and culturally diverse councils. We put the customer and our community at the centre of all that we do, ensuring our services are efficient and accessible.

What you’ll be doing:

• Inspection and supervision of Road Management works (new and remedial) throughout the municipality
• Provide high level of customer service
• Provide inspection and supervision of all works carried out within road reserves and other council owned assets to ensure compliance of the Road Management Act 2004 and other regulations, codes and relevant state legislations.
• Ensure private and service authority reinstatement wors are undertaken to a high standard of workmanship and in accordance with Council and approved Infrastructure standards

The skills and experience you’ll bring to the role:

• Post secondary qualifications in civil construction or relevant experience in Local Government environment or similar.
• High Level understanding of Road Management Act 2004.
• Construction and maintenance work experience in civil and concrete construction.
• Ability to prepare routine correspondence and reports.
• Understanding of personnel practices including those related to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) and the ability to provide contractors and subcontractors (road and drainage) with supervision and guidance.
• Working knowledge of clerical /administrative procedures and standards.
• Ability to read and comprehend engineering plans,
• Knowledge and application of road and drainage construction and maintenance work standards.
• Current driver's license.

• ✅ Stakeholder Engagement
  

  Partner with stakeholders to understand specifications, business requirements, and communicate insights

• 🤖 Scripting and Automation
  

  Develop scripts and automated workflows to improve the efficiency and accuracy of repeated tasks

• 🛠 Test Engineering
  

  Create and implement code tests and software test automation

• 👥 Collaboration
  

  Works with others by being open, clear in communication and listening to achieve goals

• 🧮 Numerical problem solving
  

  Works with numerical information and performs mathematical calculations to solve problems

• 🔍 Attention to detail
  

  Accurately identifies and rectifies discrepancies or errors that exists in information and deliverables