**General Labourers /Operators and Parks Worker Positions**:
**Remuneration: Starting $1125.25 per week plus applicable allowances and up to 13% Super**
**The Recruitment Pool is valid for a period of 6 months. At the end of 6 months, your placement in the recruitment pool will expire.**
Council has temporary vacancies which arise due to short term absences.
We are seeking to engage employees via the Recruitment Pool to undertake a range of activities as part of a multi-disciplined team responsible for the construction and maintenance of Council's road infrastructure and parks and gardens.
**What we are looking for?**
As Labourer/Operator/Parks Worker, you could expect to be responsible for tasks such as:
- general labouring duties, and operating and maintaining light plant and equipment
- digging post holes, sweeping aggregate off roads, installing guide posts, patching pot holes and using tools such as whacker packers, guide post drivers and vibrating plates
- customer service delivery through our roads construction and maintenance works programs
- Maintaining parks, parks maintenance, pruning, brush cutting, mowing
- contributing to continuous improvement by identifying better ways to do our work
Critical for success in these roles will be:
- physical fitness with the ability to carry out labouring duties and/or small plant operation in trying conditions
- the ability to work under general supervision and take direction.
- the ability to foster and maintain good working relationships in a team environment.
- A QLD construction industry white/blue card
Desirable for this role will be:
- Prior experience within Parks or Civil Construction
- Knowledge and experience in road maintenance and construction work, including bitumen works, pipe laying and concreting would be an advantage.
- A QLD HR truck licence.
**What we offer?**
- Nine day fortnight
- Access to employee health and well-being programs
- Fitness Passport: work out at over 25 local gyms for you and your family at a subsidised rate
- Generous superannuation scheme 13 per cent
- Access to salary sacrificing
- Employee assistance program offering free confidential counselling services for employees and their families.
**Our Values**
- Accountable
- Consistent
- Appreciative
- Communicative
- Respectful
You will be assessed on your understanding of these values and how you have applied values such as these in your previous employment.