Team Leader - Metal Fabricators

City of Newcastle, Australia; Newcastle; On-site; AUD 77,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Uniforms and PPE provided

Training and development opportunities

Local work — home every night

9 day fortnight / long weekends

Job summary

The City of Newcastle is seeking an experienced Team Leader - Metal Fabricators to join our Building Trade Services team. You will lead a skilled trades team and stay hands-on with fabrication, maintenance, and asset improvement works across diverse Council assets.

This is a hands-on leadership role focusing on mentoring staff, planning resources, and delivering high-quality outcomes. Enjoy a 38-hour week, a 9-day fortnight, and a long weekend every second weekend, with ample opportunities for

Qualifications

• Qualified Metal Fabricator, Boilermaker or Blacksmith with strong fabrication and welding skills.
• Experience with steel, aluminium and stainless steel.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings; maintain safe, high-quality work practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team delivering fabrication, maintenance, repair and asset improvement works across Council assets.
• Coordinate day-to-day activities; mentor and support employees and apprentices.
• Plan resources and materials; work alongside the team to deliver quality outcomes.

Skills

Team leadership

Metal fabrication

Welding

Reading drawings

Education

Trade qualification in metal fabrication

Job description

• Permanent Opportunity - 38 hours per week
• 9 day fortnight - enjoy a long weekend every second weekend!
• Lead a skilled team while staying hands on with the trade

As a member of our team, you won't just work for the city; you’ll co-create it. Here, your ideas and efforts directly shape the places where you and your community live, work, and play.

City of Newcastle is seeking an experienced Team Leader - Metal Fabricators to join our Building Trade Services team.

In this role, you'll lead a team of metal fabrication tradespeople responsible for delivering fabrication, maintenance, repair and asset improvement works across a diverse range of Council infrastructure and fleet assets. This is a hands on leadership role where you'll coordinate day-to-day activities, mentor and support employees and apprentices, plan resources and materials, and work alongside your team to deliver quality outcomes.

What's in it for you?

• Permanent, secure employment
• 38 hour week with a 9 day fortnight
• Long weekend every second weekend
• Varied work across a diverse asset portfolio
• Hands on leadership role with the opportunity to mentor and develop others
• Local work, home every night
• Uniforms and PPE provided
• Supportive team environment
• Ongoing training and development opportunities
• Opportunity to contribute to assets that support the Newcastle community

What We're Looking For

We're seeking a qualified Metal Fabricator, Boilermaker or Blacksmith with strong fabrication and welding skills and a passion for leading people. You'll have experience working with steel, aluminium and stainless steel, the ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, and a commitment to maintaining safe, high-quality work practices.

If you're looking for a role that combines leadership, variety and hands-on trade work, while offering stability and work-life balance, we'd love to hear from you.

Through your work, you’ll have a behind the scenes pass to Newcastle's evolution as you shape our future as a liveable, inclusive city.

Find out more about your new career by viewing the position description here.

Life at City of Newcastle (CN)

You’ll get to experience your work up close alongside the brilliant minds of your colleagues who care for one another and the region.

You’ll chip away at ambitious plans with a talented, passionate crew alongside you, shaping the very fabric of our community. Showing up for neighbours not shareholders.

Every single day offers the chance to think big and act local. Planning and prioritising to achieve the most important outcomes with the community.

You’ll add value in the moments that matter. From librarians to lifeguards, in a range of iconic places, we achieve a better Newcastle together.

Whether we’re planning to host major events, providing essential services or supporting creative artists, it’s what we do when the cameras aren't rolling that matters most.

And we’ll be there for you in important times in your life. We embrace flexible work arrangements to find a balance that allows us to enjoy the city we shape.

Our focus on inclusion and respecting culture, will help you feel a deeper connection with others. You'll connect with internal communities that will help you to feel a sense of belonging and reflect the diversity of the growing region.

You’ll do meaningful work and do it sustainably as you take ideas from plan to play, in your own backyard.

With hundreds of different roles, each person adds their uniqueness to our culture and plays their part as we head towards our 2040 vision.

With natural assets and a focus on the environment, co-create a sustainable region with us.

Why join CN?

At CN, we value our employees, and their wellbeing takes priority. We encourage employees to make time for what's important and provide the benefits to enable a work life balance that allow us to enjoy the city we shape. To read more, visit here!

• 38 hour working week with flexible work arrangements including an optional 9-day fortnight
• 4 weeks of annual leave, 3 weeks of personal leave plus 2 additional paid public holidays
• 17.5% annual leave loading yearly payment
• Paid parental leave for primary carers
• Industry leading employment conditions
• Corporate Fitness program from as little as $18.00 per fortnight
• Access to a range of exclusive CN employee benefits programs including Novated Lease options as well as access to reward and recognition vouchers
• Annual performance development plans and ongoing training and development opportunities
• Leading the CN Way leadership program
• Inclusion, Diversity & Equity (IDE) employee networks and initiatives
• Access to Health & Wellbeing programs including an Onsite Physiotherapist and Psychology, Yoga and Mental Health Ambassador Groups

We champion inclusion so that everyone is valued, and we encourage innovation and creativity. We are committed to creating a safe and inclusive workplace where different styles, backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, encouraged, and respected.

People with diverse lived experiences (including but not limited to, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, people with diverse gender identities and sexualities, people from different cultural, racial, ethnic, religious and linguistic backgrounds, people with disability, carers, and veterans) are encouraged to apply.

Don’t just work for the city, co-create it. Join and expand your career at the City of Newcastle.

Application Closing Date

Friday 20 November 2026

Remuneration

$85,149.95 + 17.5% annual leave loading yearly payment + 12% Superannuation per annum for a 38 hour week

Contact

Jason Cleare - Building Trade Services Manager – 0249 746051

If you need any adjustments to be made to the recruitment process or if you would like to discuss any accessibility requirements, please contact [e-mail] for a confidential discussion.

You must have the right to live and work in Australia to apply for this job.

CN do not accept unsolicited resumes, and we respectfully ask that recruitment agencies do not contact us at this stage.