Maintenance Team Member

Log Cabin Park Accommodation; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Log Cabin Park Accommodation seeks a hands-on maintenance and cleaning professional for a full-time role at our cabin park in Melbourne. You will paint cabin interiors and exteriors, clean facilities, perform groundskeeping duties, and assist with routine maintenance and minor repairs.

On-the-job training will be provided for specialised tasks. The role requires practical experience in painting and outdoor physical work, with a driver licence and ability to work safely at heights.

Qualifications

• Experience in interior and exterior painting is advantageous.
• Experience in grounds work, property upkeep or labouring is useful.
• Must have unrestricted rights to work in Australia.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and paint cabin interiors and exteriors with attention to finish.
• Carry out routine pool testing, dosing and cleaning after training.
• Undertake groundskeeping: weed spraying, mulching, street sweeping and green-waste removal.
• Read utility meters, move furniture with assistance, and help with basic furniture assembly.
• Carry out gutter cleaning using safe access equipment and methods.
• Undertake minor cabin maintenance and repairs with onsite training.
• Pressure wash cabin exteriors.
• Clean vacant cabins to prepare them for reoccupation; daily laundry and common areas cleaning.
• Provide labouring help for site prep, decks, verandas and pathways.

Skills

Painting interiors

Painting exteriors

Groundskeeping

Cleaning

Maintenance tasks

Driver licence

Police check

Working at heights

Job description

This is a hands-on role with a strong focus on painting and cleaning cabins, together with routine maintenance and general park duties. You will also undertake minor cabin maintenance and repairs from time to time with on-the-job training provided.

We are a family-owned business that has provided long-term residential accommodation in an established cabin park community for over 40 years. We take pride in providing a safe and well-maintained environment for our residents to call home, and are investing in new cabins and improvements across the park.

This is a full-time role, working 38 hours per week on weekdays, with flexibility around start and finish times.

Key responsibilities

• Prepare and paint cabin interiors and exteriors, with care and attention to the finished result.


• Carry out routine pool testing, dosing and cleaning after training.


• Undertake groundskeeping, including weed spraying, mulching, street sweeping and green-waste removal.


• Read utility meters, move furniture with assistance, and help with basic furniture assembly and cabin preparation.


• Carry out gutter cleaning using suitable access equipment and safe work methods.


• Undertake minor cabin maintenance and repairs from time to time, with on-the-job training provided.


• Pressure wash the exterior of cabins.


• Cleaning work including vacant cabins to prepare them for reoccupation;


• Daily cleaning of the laundry, pool toilet and common areas; keep bin areas, the maintenance shed and yard tidy.


• Provide labouring assistance for site preparation, construction of decks, verandas, pathways and other development work under the maintenance team's direction.

About you

• You are dependable, take care with your work and are comfortable with both cleaning and outdoor physical tasks.


• You can follow instructions, work independently on routine jobs and cooperate with a small team.


• You communicate respectfully with residents, staff and contractors and report problems when you find them.


• Practical experience in interior and exterior painting, including surface preparation, is preferred.


• Experience in grounds work, property upkeep or labouring would be useful.


• A trade qualification in carpentry or practical experience in carpentry would be advantageous but is not essential.


• Practical experience working at heights is required for tasks such as gutter cleaning. Accredited working-at-heights training is desirable; we will provide this training if needed.


• Unrestricted rights to work full-time in Australia.


• A current Australian driver licence permitting you to drive a manual-transmission car, with practical experience and confidence driving manual vehicles.


• The successful applicant must provide a satisfactory current National Police Check before commencing employment.