AddressAbout the role
In this position, you will lead a team in looking after our street and park trees, ensuring outcomes meet Council's procedures and best practices. Engage with residents, the community, contractors and stakeholders to achieve optimal results for Geelong's trees and community.
Work type: Permanent full time
Classification: Band 6 ($90,263-$97,365 pa plus super)
Key responsibilities include:
- Provide effective leadership to the Arboricultural Inspectors and their teams, focused on achieving success through the continued development of team capability and engagement.
- Competently manage the delivery and performance of Council’s arboricultural maintenance program through the efficient use of physical, human and financial resources.
- Provide excellent customer service and arboricultural advice to internal and external stakeholders to ensure the application of best practice in tree management for Council owned and managed trees.
- Implement and monitor contracts, ensuring compliance with established Service Level Agreements and adjusting for commercial sustainability and competitiveness.
- Manage Councils response to legislative requirements for Electric Line Clearance.
About you
To be successful in this role, you will have experience in managing arboricultural operations and a Diploma in Horticulture (Arboriculture) or substantial relevant experience.
Essential:
- Demonstrated experience in managing contracts including managing time, setting priorities, planning and organising work to meet objectives, deadlines and budgets.
- Understanding of legislation and Australian Standards relevant to the arboricultural industry.
- Ability to develop and implement responsive arboricultural maintenance programs and procedures.
- Experience managing an arboricultural team in accordance with OH&S legislation.
- Strong communication skills, including negotiation, community consultation, writing reports, work requests and submissions.
- Certificate II In Powerline Vegetation Management.
- Current Victorian Drivers Licence
- Current Working with Children Check (Employee)
If this sounds like the role for you, then click apply now!
Child Safety Responsibilities
We are committed to being a child-safe organisation and have zero-tolerance for child abuse. We have specific policies, procedures, and mandatory training in place to support employees, volunteers, and contractors to achieve and adhere to these commitments. Please read our Child Safe Standards Management Policy.
Diversity and Inclusion
At the City we want a workforce that reflects the community we live in. We welcome and embrace everyone, all people with their own unique experiences, and support and encourage all our employees to do their best work, have equal access to opportunities and a just working environment. For this reason, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from First Nations people, people with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, from the LGBTQIA+ community, people with disability and people of all genders, ages and diverse experience.
Create our future together at the City of Greater Geelong
At the City of Greater Geelong, we are committed to working together for a thriving community. We do this by delivering over 130 services to our rapidly growing population and working hard to protect and improve what it is that makes Greater Geelong on Wadawurrung Country such a great place to live, work and study.
We’re going through an exciting period of change that will help us serve our community better. From digital modernisation to the contemporary, sustainable office we've built in Central Geelong, now more than ever is a great time to join our team at the City of Greater Geelong.
Our Community is made up of diverse people from all walks of life, and it’s important to us that our workforce represents and celebrates this strength.
We encourage great people from all backgrounds to join us. We encourage authenticity, because inclusion makes us stronger.
If you’re excited about working together to create a Clever and Creative Greater Geelong, and joining a workplace where all people can thrive, then hit apply – we’d love to meet you!
We particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with diverse culture and linguistic backgrounds and people with disability.
A career with us
Central Geelong-based City employees are now based in our new Civic Precinct, Wurriki Nyal. Meaning ‘speak and talk together’ in local Wadawurrung language. Wurriki Nyal sets the benchmark for what a sustainable, inclusive and culturally safe workplace can be, including industry leading sustainability standards, a flexible and people-focused design, safe and inclusive spaces and public realm.
We’re committed to supporting better accessibility for our customers and our people. We encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments or additional support you may require during the recruitment process, as well as how this role can be flexible for you.
We offer:
- salary sacrificing and novated lease options
- cultural and ceremonial leave
- study leave
- paid parental leave (16 weeks primary and six weeks secondary) and superannuation payments on all 52 weeks primary parental leave
- IVF, surrogate and miscarriage bereavement leave
- training and career development opportunities
- a healthy and safe environment
- our employee wellbeing program
- corporate membership rates at Swim Sport and Leisure facilities
- unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning
Applications and Enquiries
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Applications close 28 May at 11:55pm.
Enquiries: Sarah Priestley | Coordinator Tree Management | 5272 4946 | **********@geelongcity.vic.gov.au
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