Address- Ongoing Full Time
- Located in Narrabri NSW
- Salary starting from $79,032.00 p.a + super
- Work with the best in your community!
About the Role
The Ranger TSR role delivers front line field services, projects and activities for the management, care and maintenance of travelling stock reserves.
Key components of this role to ensure these reserves are managed sustainably by identifying and controlling weed infestations, delivering biosecurity activities and providing day to day supervision of field staff and contractors.
The role also contributes to the delivery of the NSW Government’s biosecurity, emergency management and natural resource objectives and activities at a regional and local level.
About You
To be successful in this role you must have strong communication skills, the ability to influence and negotiate and have a broad understanding of rural issues, livestock and plant health including current approaches to the active management of travelling stock reserves.
A basic level of computer literacy will be required.
HC licence highly desirable.
Essential requirements
- Appropriate qualifications and knowledge relevant to pesticide application
- Current NSW Driver Licence, and the capacity and willingness to undertake 4WD training course
- Broad understanding of rural issues, livestock and plant health including current approaches to the active management of travelling stock reserves
- Capacity to hold a NSW firearms licence or equivalent, and a Statement of Attainment (to Use Firearms to humanely destroy animals AQF AHCVPT203A, AHCPMG304)
For further information about this opportunity please download the role description or contact Mal Scott, Team Leader TSR on 0459 835 *** or *********@lls.nsw.gov.au.
How to Apply
All applications must be submitted online and should include your current resume and a cover letter outlining your suitability for this position.
Applications through email will not be accepted.
Applications Close: Wednesday 12th June 2024 @ 11.55pm AEST
If you require adjustments in completing your application, interviewing, completing any pre- employment testing, require information in an alternative format, or otherwise participating in the recruitment process, please let us know so we can assist. Send an email to ***************@regional.nsw.gov.au or contact the hiring manager listed below for a confidential discussion.
Why work for us?
The Department of Regional NSW (DRNSW) is the department focussed on protecting and growing primary industries, supporting sustainable land management, overseeing the state’s mineral, mining resources, and ensuring that government investment supports strong regional communities and economies. DRNSW brings together the Department of Primary Industries; Local Land Services; Mining, Exploration and Geoscience; Regional Development; the Regional Growth NSW Development Corporation; NSW Public Works and Soil Conservation Service.
We have nearly 5,000 employees, with almost 80 per cent of us living and working in regional NSW.
Diversity and inclusion are core values of the Department of Regional NSW. The Department of Regional NSW is a workplace where everyone is able to contribute and participate to their full potential, and we are proud to have a team that reflects the richness and complexity of the regional NSW communities we serve.
We work hard every day to support and grow thriving communities across regional NSW that will have a positive impact on generations to come. Our goal is always to be a trusted local partner and problem-solver working deeply in community.
As part of our team, you will be able to:
- Deliver with impact. You are empowered and trusted to create impact through exposure to cutting-edge projects and research, career defining opportunities, and get to be part of a team creating sustainable solutions that will leave a legacy.
- Connect to what matters. We are all about forming deep community relationships, fostering our passionate and connected teams. It is central to our work to support a true sense of belonging across the team.
- Live your way. From bringing your whole self to work, to designing flexibility, that fits you and the team, at Regional NSW you will be able to find the balance that works for you.
We are a young agency, but with that has come a personality that is dedicated, passionate, proactive, influential, and informed.
Additional Information
The successful applicant in this role may be required to undergo a police check, health assessment and/or other assessments as required.
A recruitment pool may be created for ongoing and temporary roles of the same role or role type that may become available for filling over the next eighteen months.
