Natural Areas Team Member - Gold Coast

Austspray Environmental Weed Control Pty Ltd; Gold Coast City; On-site; AUD 52,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

Austspray Environmental Weed Control Pty Ltd invites applications for Natural Areas Team Members to join our crews across the Gold Coast and South East Queensland. This is hands-on outdoor work focused on restoration, weed control and habitat enhancement.

You'll start early, work in small crews, and visit diverse sites from coastal bushland to waterways, helping restore environments while learning practical conservation skills and safe equipment handling. A passion for plants helps you thrive.

Qualifications

• Experience in natural area restoration or bush regeneration is beneficial but not required.
• Must have a current driver's licence and White Card.
• Physically capable and comfortable outdoors in changing weather and terrain.
• Reliable, safety-conscious and eager to learn.

Responsibilities

• Controlling weeds and preparing sites for restoration.
• Infill planting and large-scale revegetation projects.
• Herbicide application where hand weeding isn't practical.
• Restoring bushland, waterways and environmentally significant areas.

Skills

Plant passion

Physical fitness

Teamwork

Safety-conscious

Willingness to learn

Education

Currently studying conservation, horticulture or related field

Job description

Gold Coast & South East Queensland | Full-time, Part-time & Casual opportunities

If you'd rather spend your working day restoring the outdoors than staring at it through a window, this could be your kind of job.

Austspray Environmental

is looking for Natural Areas Team Members to join our crew working across the Gold Coast and South East Queensland. Already working in conservation, bush regeneration or natural areas? Great.

Studying conservation, horticulture or something similar and looking for practical experience? We'd love to hear from you too. Or perhaps you're simply ready for a career change and know you'd be far happier working outdoors, around plants and the environment, than sitting behind a desk all day.

Your office has trees. Lots of them.

What will you actually be doing?

Your day starts early at our Stapylton base, between 5-6am, depending on the season, weather and workload. Working in crews of two or more, you'll load up the vehicles, machinery, equipment and chemicals before heading out to site.

Unlike landscape maintenance, you may spend days or even weeks transforming one area. The work could include:

• Controlling weeds and preparing sites for restoration
• Infill planting and large-scale revegetation projects
• Responsible herbicide application where hand weeding isn't practical
• Restoring bushland, waterways and environmentally significant areas

The scale varies enormously. One project might involve improving a pocket of bushland alongside a pathway; another could involve planting tens of thousands of native plants to restore habitat lost through development.

You'll work across council, development and environmental sites throughout South East Queensland, so the location, environment and work can change from one project to the next. The common thread? You're leaving the environment better than you found it.

A quick reality check...

Working in natural areas means working in nature, not the sanitised version of it. Depending on the location, you may encounter snakes, spiders, insects and other wildlife. You'll need to be comfortable working in these environments and following the appropriate safety procedures.

You'll also need to be comfortable using herbicides safely and responsibly. While we use different weed-control methods depending on the site, hand weeding isn't always practical or possible, so herbicide application is an important part of the job.

If either of those things makes you think "absolutely not", this probably isn't the role for you. If you're thinking "that's all part of working outdoors", keep reading.

Who are we looking for?

Experience in natural area restoration, bush regeneration, conservation, horticulture, landscaping or weed control would be great, but it isn't the only way in.

We're also interested in people who are:

• Passionate about plants, conservation and the environment
• Looking to move from an indoor role into a practical outdoor career
• Currently studying conservation, horticulture, environmental management or a related field
• Physically capable and happy working outdoors in changing weather and site conditions
• Reliable, safety-conscious and willing to learn
• Comfortable working as part of a crew and getting stuck in

You’ll need a current driver's licence and White Card. Qualifications or tickets in conservation, ACDC, First Aid, chainsaw operation or similar will definitely be looked on favourably.

Why Austspray?

You’ll join an established environmental business that provides training, development and a supportive team environment, while doing work where you can actually see the difference you’ve made.