About The Role
In this role, you will lead a crew delivering efficient parks and horticultural maintenance across garden beds, open spaces and park assets. You will support maintenance programs, ensure the safe operation of plant and equipment, maintain accurate records, and contribute to a customer‐focused service while supporting the team to deliver projects successfully.
Work type: Permanent Full‐time
Classification: Salary from 1 July 2026: Band 3 $70,838 pa plus super
Key Responsibilities
* Lead a crew to undertake inspections & works, effective and efficient with appropriate maintenance programming as directed by a Parks Supervisor.
* Lead a team in a range of horticultural maintenance tasks, including garden beds, open spaces and relevant park assets.
* Lead a crew operating and maintain plant/machinery and equipment in an effective and efficient manner and in compliance with relevant laws and regulations.
* Work within all Council health and safety policies and procedures.
* Undertake weed control activities, including manual removal and chemical application in parks, reserves and roadsides.
* Effective and efficient recording of maintenance works undertaken time sheets and plant sheets or recorded on Councils Management Maintenance system.
About You
To be successful in this role, you will have a trade Certificate III in Horticulture, Parks & Gardens or equivalent, and/or extensive experience in a range of horticultural activities in a Parks environment.
Essential
* Experience in providing leadership to a small crew.
* Experience in operating a range of Park's Maintenance plant and equipment.
* Experience in providing leadership to a small team, ensuring team safety, training employees and providing good clear communication / instructions.
* Experience and knowledge horticulture skills, practices and principals.
* A current Victorian Drivers Licence.
* A current Light Truck Licence, or the ability and willingness to obtain within a specified timeframe.
* Current Working with Children check (Employee).
Preferred
* Preferred candidates will be required to undergo a National Police Check and a pre‐employment medical assessment as part of the recruitment process (funded by the City).
Child Safety Responsibilities
We are committed to being a child‐safe organisation and have zero‐tolerance for child abuse. We have specific policies, procedures, and mandatory training in place to support employees, volunteers, and contractors to achieve and adhere to these commitments. Please read our Child Safe Standards Management Policy.
Diversity and Inclusion
At the City we want a workforce that reflects the community we live in. We welcome and embrace everyone, all people with their own unique experiences, and support and encourage all our employees to do their best work, have equal access to opportunities and a just working environment. For this reason, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from First Nations people, people with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, from the LGBTQIA+ community, people with disability and people of all genders, ages and diverse experience.
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