* Permanent Full-Time (76 hours per fortnight)
* From $60,173pa (plus allowances and overtime)
* Nine Day Fortnight
Council offers a wide range of benefits such as salary packaging (including novated motor vehicle leasing and remote area housing benefits), health and wellbeing programs and employee vaccinations to employees.
Do you want to be part of something challenging and rewarding? Are you passionate about our community? If so, joining the Glen Innes Severn Council might be the right career move for you.
Do you want to be part of something challenging and rewarding? Are you passionate about our community? If so, joining the Glen Innes Severn Council might be the right career move for you.
Working for Council means you'll be joining a dedicated team where your individual effort is part of something much bigger – delivering great things for our community.
The Council covers an area of 5,487km2, and is located in the beautiful New England area of NSW. This area encompasses the town of Glen Innes and villages of Deepwater, Emmaville, Glencoe, Wellingrove and Red Range. We're proud of the contribution our community makes to this vibrant, dynamic and attractive area in which to live and work.
Glen Innes offers an attractive lifestyle including a well serviced and friendly rural community, laid back living, short commuting times, affordable housing, easy access to NSW north coast beaches and larger regional centres, and terrific recreational and sporting facilities.
A GREAT PLACE TO WORK
As part of our team you will have the opportunity to make a real difference to our community, working with a diverse range of passionate, supportive and engaging people within a collaborative environment. You will also be part of a workplace that offers competitive employee benefits and opportunities and encourages professional development including:
* Salary packaging (including novated motor vehicle leasing and remote area housing benefits) for all permanent staff
* Long service leave after 5 years
* Corporate wellbeing programs
* Employee vaccinations
* PPE supplied
* Training and development programs
* Education assistance
THE POSITION
The Skilled Construction Worker (Heavy Patching) will work in a team, on the maintenance and construction of Council’s roads and related infrastructure.
Reporting to the Team Leader (Heavy Patching) you will:
* Receive and act on written work orders or verbal instructions from the Heavy Patching Team Leader or other assigned supervisor.
* Construct, maintain or repair sealed and unsealed roads using manual or mechanised techniques, by performing activities such as bitumen resealing; excavating and replacing, scarifying, reshaping or stabilising pavement; patching potholes and edge defects using asphalt, cold-mix, crushed rock and gravel or other suitable materials; crack filling/sealing; sweeping; painting line-markings and replacing pavement markers.
* Install, maintain, remove and/or replace new or damaged signs, guardrails, guide posts, fences, barriers and other temporary or permanent structures on roads, bridges, footpaths and other areas under Council's control.
* Operate a variety of minor plant items, including rollers, skid steer loaders, tractors, pumps, air compressors, concrete mixers, line-trimmers, jack hammers, concrete saws, augers and pneumatic tamping equipment, and carries out appropriate maintenance and safety checks before, during and after operation.
* Estimate the quantities and weights of loose materials such as soil, rock and gravel, and loads the correct quantities and weights of materials onto trucks, trailers or other locations
* Direct the flow of traffic at work sites, including the use of stop / go signs to regulate traffic flow and maintain safety.
* Ensure that all work conforms to required safety standards, including completion of risk assessments and site-specific training for employees / contractors, installation and maintenance of signage, and implementation of Work Method Statements and Traffic Control Plans.
* Perform other basic labouring duties as required, including manual lifting and moving of objects and materials, and manual excavation of earthworks.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Specifically, you will have:
Essential
* Demonstrated ability to competently operate a variety of power tools and minor plant items to complete routine maintenance and construction tasks
* Working knowledge of basic mechanical principles and the ability to perform routine maintenance and minor repairs on plant and equipment
* Proven ability to read and comprehend written instructions and procedures and accurately complete maintenance records and other routine forms
* Safe Work NSW Certificate in General WHS Induction (White Card)
* Current Class C driver’s licence
Desirable
* Current Class HR Driver's License (Heavy Rigid).
* Accreditations / certificates or previous experience in: Traffic Control; Chainsaw Operations; Chemical User Certificate; Heavy Plant operation
HOW TO APPLY
* Applications close: 5:00pm on Monday 4 March 2024
* Carefully read the Information Package to familiarise yourself with the role and application process
* Please ensure that you attach a copy of a recent resume
* Position specific enquiries may be directed to Tony Kamphorst, Manager of Infrastructure Delivery on (0409) 561 082 or email akamphorst@gisc.nsw.gov.au
* Any enquiries relating to the application process may be directed to Helen Stapleton on (02) 6730 2303 or email jobs@gisc.nsw.gov.au
* Please note that as part of Glen Innes Severn Council's recruitment process, prior to an offer of employment being made, recommended candidates will be required to undertake referee checks, police checks and a functional assessment with Council’s physiotherapist.
* All correspondence will be via the email address you supply as part of your application, therefore please ensure that the email address is valid and that you check it regularly (please be sure to check your junk email also).
Council is an EEO employer. Women, Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders, people with a disability, and members of racial, ethnic, and ethno-religious minority groups are encouraged to apply.
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