**Full Time Fixed Term Position - August 2025**
**Band 4 - Salary Range $72,119 to $76,460 per annum + 11.5% Super + ADO**
**Salary offered will depend on level of skills and experience.**
**About Melton City Council**
The City of Melton is a community where everyone belongs. Ours is a vibrant and diverse municipality — one of the fastest developing in Australia. Our organisation strives to provide our community with state-of-the-art amenity and facilities, engaging health and wellbeing options, and support to become active members of our Lifelong Learning City.
We invest in innovation, offering professional and personal development, and generous leave and flexibility to staff, while also fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture. You'll be able to work close to home in a dynamic setting featuring cafes and retail options set amongst heritage buildings and open green spaces.
**The Opportunity**
An exciting opportunity for a person to use their technical experience in the engineering field and to develop a broad skill set in a rapidly expanding Council environment.
You will be a member of the Engineering Services team and reporting to the Design & Investigations Coordinator. You will be assisting and supporting the day to day operational and administrative functions of the Design & Investigations team
**Key Responsibilities**
- Processing and administering Councils Consent to work within the road reserve process.
- Administer Council's Public Lighting responsibilities including reporting public lighting faults, procuring non-standard street lighting components and organising new light installs for Council's capital works program.
- Processing and administering Councils Build over Easement process.
- Schedule and conduct Variation to Crossover inspections to meet Council policies and procedures.
To view the **Position Description**, click **here**.
**About you**
**_ To be successful in this role you will have the following:_**
- Post-secondary qualifications with some relevant technical experience in an engineering environment.
- Computer literacy in the use of Microsoft Office products and GIS software.
- Understanding of the principles of engineering design, construction and maintenance techniques in relation to roads and drainage assets in a local government environment.
- Current valid Victorian Driver's Licence.
**Culture and Values**
Our vision for our community is to be: "A vibrant, safe and liveable city accessible to all" and that means there's a place here for you too. Our organisational values represent us as an established growth Council and the values are reflected in everything we do; our decision-making, our actions and our service provision to the community. Council has a diverse and vibrant organisation and we'd love to have you join us to help shape a city for the future.
We are Vibrant MELTON. Our values are:
- Motivate
- Empower
- Lead
- Trust
- Open
- Nurture
**Benefits**
There are a number of great reasons why our people love working at Melton City Council:
Staff Benefits | Melton City Council
- 13 ADO's (Accrued Day Off) per year
- 5 weeks annual leave
- Flexible Working Hours
- Extensive Career Development & Leadership Programs
- 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave **(Super is paid during parental leave)**:
- 3 weeks Paid Secondary Carer Leave
- Family Room available including Breastfeeding Facilities (Melton City Council | Australian Breastfeeding Association)
- Wellbeing initiatives
- Subsidised Uniforms
- Eligible after 12 months of employment.
**How To Apply**
If you require further information about the position, please contact **Matthew Hutchinson**, Design & Investigations Coordinator, on **9747 7161**.
Applications must include a Resume and address the Key Selection Criteria outlining your suitability to the role. To address the Key Selection Criteria, you will need to write short statements explaining how you meet the criteria, or how you demonstrate the capability. We encourage you to keep your responses concise.
**To be eligible for employment at Melton City Council you must be legally entitled to work in Australia.**
All successful applicants will need to undertake pre-employment requirements including but not limited to a satisfactory criminal history record check. Successful applicants must be able to comply with any COVID-19 Public Health Orders applicable to Local Government employees.
**Melton City Council is committed to being a child safe organisation and has Zero tolerance for child abuse. Melton City Council is committed to creating and maintaining a child safe organisation where protecting children and preventing and responding to child abuse is at the centre of our everyday thinking and service delivery.**
Applications close **11:59pm** Tuesday **10 September 2024