Trades Assistant

Central Coast Council; Central Coast Council; On-site; AUD 61,000 - 71,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government council is seeking a Trades Assistant to maintain and improve public parks and sporting facilities. This outdoor role involves vegetation management, infrastructure repairs, and ensuring the safety and cleanliness of public spaces. The ideal candidate has a background in horticulture or landscaping and is committed to quality service. Competitive salary up to $61k, with career progression opportunities available.

Benefits

Fitness Passports for gym access

Wellbeing leave for health-related activities

Professional development opportunities

Novated leasing partnerships

Qualifications

• Extensive relevant experience in general horticulture or landscaping.
• Genuine enthusiasm for delivering quality services to the community.
• Willing to obtain a General Construction Induction Card prior to employment.

Responsibilities

• Maintain public spaces, ensuring they are safe and clean.
• Undertake facility maintenance and improvement works.
• Operate and maintain required machines and equipment.

Skills

General horticulture

Landscaping

Parks maintenance

Customer service

Safety awareness

Education

Class C Drivers Licence

General Construction Induction Card (White Card)

Job description

Join Central Coast Council as a Trades Assistant, where you'll play a crucial role in maintaining, improving, and constructing our sporting facilities, parks, and reserves, ensuring they remain vibrant and accessible for everyone!

• Calling all grounds, parks, reserves, roadsides or sports field maintenance specialists
• Opportunities to add value across Central Coast community landscapes and recreational spaces
• Work/Life Balance - 9 day fortnight

About the role

The role of Trades Assistant is a diverse outdoor role which provides high quality maintenance support for local parks, sports fields or roadside landscapes across the Central Coast. Your day could include anything from vegetation management at parks, roadsides & sports grounds, improvements and repairs to infrastructure such as play equipment and a range of other activities to keep our public spaces safe and clean.

Council will also be creating an eligibility list from this recruitment process and may utilise this eligibility list to fill other permanent Trades Assistant vacancies.

This position is required to provide quality customer service and create value for the community.

Key activities of this role include:

• Working with your crew on a range of vegetation management activities within Council's sporting facilities, roadsides, parks or reserves
• Undertaking a range of facility maintenance, improvement works or new construction projects as required
• Ensuring that ovals, playing fields, parks and reserves are left in a clean and safe state on a daily basis to minimise risk of harm to the public
• Safe operation and maintenance of machines, vehicles, tools and equipment required to undertake the role.

About you:

• You have extensive relevant experience in general horticulture or landscaping, parks maintenance, or sports facilities and/or similar community recreation facilities
• You enjoy adding value to your team by bringing an innovative perspective and new ideas
• Safety is a key focus for you at work
• You have genuine enthusiasm for delivering quality services to the local community
• You hold a Class C Drivers Licence
• You hold a General Construction Induction Card (White Card) or you are willing to obtain prior to any offer of employment
• Traffic control qualifications would be highly regarded
• Having a work/life balance is important to you.

The commencing salary for this position is up to $61k per annum. Central Coast Council also provides progression opportunities for employees to progress up to the maximum salary of $70.7k per annum on completion of assessment of skills and performance 12% superannuation

At Central Coast Council we provide team members with a range of extras that help them balance their life when they need it. Fitness Passports give access to a range of gyms. Wellbeing leave can be accessed twice a year to tick off something that means something to you - volunteering, health check-ups. And an Employee Assistance Program that offers a range of wellbeing initiatives to help you and your immediate family.

Other extras include:

• Long service leave after 5 years of continuous service
• Time provided for you to do annual skin cancer screening, Breast screen and blood donations
• Access to professional development with career development and learning programs through various platforms
• We reward and recognise our staff with our Cheers program
• Novated leasing partnerships.

Central Coast Council is committed to the goals of equal opportunity employment. We aim to provide a work environment for our employees that fosters equity, diversity and respect.

Council is committed to providing safe environments that protect the physical, emotional, cultural and social wellbeing of children on the Central Coast.

Location

Central Coast Council is ideally located on the northern fringe of Sydney and just an hour's drive from Newcastle, the Central Coast offers one of the best places in Australia to live and work.

How to apply

To apply for this role, please follow the instructions on our website.