Team Member Loader - Multiple Positions Available

Inner West Council; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 76,000 - 84,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Gym membership

Flexible hours

Work from home options

Job summary

Inner West Council invites applications for the Team Member Loader position in Sydney. The role delivers waste and resource recovery services across day and night shifts, operating collection vehicles and supporting safe, timely services including garbage, recycling, organics, and lane servicing.

Reporting to the Resource Recovery Coordinator, you will balance vehicle operation with hands-on collection duties, ensuring schedules and council standards are met while prioritising safety and

Qualifications

• Demonstrated strong customer service focus and being conscientious and reliable.
• Demonstrated ability to perform work safely at all times and actively ensuring the safety of your team members and others including the public and community at large.
• Suitable level of fitness relative to position.

Responsibilities

• Operate waste collection vehicles and support safe, efficient completion of collection services.
• Maintain safety and service quality while meeting daily operational targets.
• Adapt to shift, service, and depot changes; contribute to a team-based approach.

Skills

Customer service

Safety awareness

Physical fitness

Job description

Team Member Loader - Multiple Positions Available

$75,937.16 - $83,543.20 + 12% Superannuation

Inner West Council (IWC) is among Sydney’s larger local metropolitan local government councils looking after a community of 201,000 people living in some of the inner city’s most vibrant, creative, liveable, and diverse suburbs. As we continue to deliver quality, innovative, and inclusive programs and services, we invite you to join in on our journey towards becoming the best council for our community.

The community is at the heart of IWC, and our values of Integrity, Respect, Innovation, Compassion and Collaboration are at the centre of everything that we do.

• Permanent employees benefit from our great value gym membership from $18.65/week giving access to a vast network of gyms in Sydney.
• We offer flexible career life balance with hours that allow you to relax and recharge.
• We offer a variety of flexible work arrangement options (e.g. flexible hours and working from home) where appropriate giving you even greater quality of work life balance.

About the role

The Team Member Loader plays a key role in delivering waste and resource recovery services to the Inner West community across day and/or night shift operations. Working as part of a team, this role is responsible for operating waste collection vehicles and supporting the safe, efficient completion of collection services including garbage, recycling, garden organics, clean‑ups and lane servicing.

Reporting to the Resource Recovery Coordinator, the role combines safe vehicle operation with hands‑on collection duties, ensuring services are completed to schedule and in line with Council standards. The Team Member Loader contributes to a team‑based “group task finish” approach, supporting colleagues to meet daily operational targets while maintaining high safety and service quality outcomes.

The role requires flexibility to work across shifts, services and depots, and a strong commitment to work health and safety, customer service, and respectful engagement with the community.

Please read the Position Description to familiarise yourself with all the requirements and conditions of the role.

Remuneration

$75,937.16 - $83,543.20 + 12% Superannuation

Some of the required skills, experience and qualifications

• Demonstrated strong customer service focus and being conscientious and reliable.
• Demonstrated ability to perform work safely at all times and actively ensuring the safety of your team members and others including the public and community at large.
• Suitable level of fitness relative to position.

Enquiries

Erin White, Resource Recovery and Fleet Manager on 02 •••• •921

Closing Date

Sunday 11 October 2026, 11:30PM

Eligibility for employment/Pre employment Checks

Successful applicants must be eligible to work in Australia and agree to provide information for pre‑employment checks as required for the position. This may include police records checks, certified copies of relevant qualifications, Driver’s Licence and proof of work rights in Australia (please refer to the Position Description for the specific qualifications/requirements for the role). Copies of any sighted documents will be kept by IWC for its records as proof of verification.

Inner West Council is proud to be an inclusive and equitable employer

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and experiences and are committed to reflecting the diversity of our community. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, culturally and linguistically diverse communities, LGBTQ+ people, veterans, young people, and mature age workers.

This commitment to diversity and inclusion is one of the many reasons we were named the 2023 AR Bluett Award Winner as the most progressive council in NSW. We’re also proud recipients of the 2023 Australian Business Awards Employer of Choice and the 2025 NSW Local Government Excellence Award for Organisational Diversity and Inclusion.

Inner West Council was proclaimed on 12 May 2016. It is made up of the former Local Government Areas of Ashfield, Leichhardt and Marrickville.

We acknowledge that this land area traditionally belonged to the Gadigal and Wangal people of the Eora nation.

We are working on a new website so you can do all your council business online. In the meantime you can access all of your services at the former websites. Just click on your suburb below or use one of the links on the right.

Source: This is an extract from the company's own website.

Welcome to Inner West Council

Inner West Council was proclaimed on 12 May 2016. It is made up of the former Local Government Areas of Ashfield, Leichhardt and Marrickville.

We acknowledge that this land area traditionally belonged to the Gadigal and Wangal people of the Eora nation.

We are working on a new website so you can do all your council business online. In the meantime you can access all of your services at the former websites. Just click on your suburb below or use one of the links on the right.

Source: This is an extract from the company's own website.

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Council is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all applicants. Please advise us within the application if you need support, reasonable adjustments to participate successfully in the recruitment process.