Facilities Maintainer

Queensland Rail; Logan City; On-site; AUD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Superannuation 12.75%

Free rail travel + discounted travel

Career stability

Safety culture

Fitness Passport

Employee benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Queensland Rail is offering a permanent Facilities Maintainer role based at Beenleigh Depot (Brisbane area). You will join a team performing corridor vegetation control, grounds maintenance and precinct works across QR sites, with daily safety briefings and site travel.

The role requires experience with vegetation control tools, autonomous work capability, and good communication. MR licence is highly regarded; apply via Ben Hogan at [e-mail].

Qualifications

• Experience in vegetation control using whipper-snippers and mowers.
• Ability to work autonomously.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• MR licence highly regarded.

Responsibilities

• Be present for daily briefings including important safety information.
• Use of a work tablets to review and complete work orders.
• Complete mowing, whipper snipping, hedging, and various other vegetation control management, graffiti removal, litter removal, pressure cleaning, etc
• Travel between sites across the network

Skills

Vegetation control

Mowing

Whipper-snipper operation

Hedging

Graffiti removal

Litter removal

Pressure cleaning

Autonomous work

Communication skills

MR licence

Tools

Zero-turn mower

Grounds maintenance equipment

Work tablets

Job description

You’ll connect Queensland. We’ll connect you to an amazing career.

Your Opportunity:

We are a large and fully integrated business that provides services that are pivotal to the success of Queensland and its people. Our culture is one based around safety and performance.

With a growing investment in rail it is an exciting time to be a part of the changing landscape of SEQ.

What Queensland Rail has to offer:

• Permanent position based in Brisbane - Beenleigh
• 12.75% superannuation
• Free rail travel to and from work + discounted rail travel for off-duty travel
• Long-term career and stability with an industry leader
• We pride ourselves on our Safety Culture, we ‘work safe’ so that everyone goes ‘home safe’
• Access to our new Fitness Passport - a discounted workplace health and fitness program giving you and your family access to a wide range of gyms and pools throughout the state
• Access to QR's competitive Employee Benefits + 1 Team Values, Diverse and Inclusive working environment
• Employee Assistance Program providing employees with holistic and contemporary health and wellbeing programs

About the role:

Our Corridor Maintenance South West team currently have a permanent vacancy for a Facilities Maintainer. You will start and finish work at Beenleigh Depot and work as part of a team to conduct corridor vegetation control and grounds maintenance and various station precincts, rail corridor and other QR owned sites throughout the network.

Day-to-day responsibilities of this role will include:

• Be present for daily briefings including important safety information
• Use of a work tablets to review and complete work orders
• Complete mowing, whipper snipping, hedging, and various other vegetation control management, graffiti removal, litter removal, pressure cleaning, etc
• Travel between sites throughout the network

About you:

• Previous experience of conducting vegetation control including the use of whipper-snippers, mowers (preferably zero turn) and other grounds maintenance & small plant & equipment
• Ability to work autonomously
• Excellent communication skills – written and verbal
• MR licence highly regarded

Your journey matters. Make it with us.

There has never been a more exciting time to join Queensland Rail. We offer boundless opportunities to support your career today and for your future.

Applicants for roles at Queensland Rail may undergo pre-employment alcohol and drug testing if they advance in the recruitment process. The selection process may include psychometric assessments, pre-employment health checks and background screenings, which could involve criminal history and credit checks.

To learn more about this career opportunity, please contact Ben Hogan via email at [e-mail]