Casual Works Assistant in Glen Innes

From $26.83 per hour (plus casual loading, allowances and superannuation). Casual positions available across all areas of Council. 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. 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

THE POSITION

This position will perform labouring work to assist with the maintenance and construction of Council’s assets and related infrastructure.

You will:

• 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.
• Install, clean and repair minor drainage systems and structures such as pipes, channels, pits, culverts, surface and subsurface drains, by removing silt and debris, excavating and preparing sites, and positioning, aligning, joining and sealing pipe or culvert sections, or using other means to construct and maintain drainage devices.
• Control or remove roadside vegetation by performing activities such as mowing, slashing and trimming grass, maintaining firebreaks, lopping tree limbs, removing trees and shrubs, and spraying herbicides to control noxious / environmental weeds and minimise vegetation growth.
• Direct the flow of traffic at work sites, including the use of stop / go signs to regulate traffic flow and maintain safety.
• Perform routine maintenance and repairs to plant and equipment and assist Council's workshop staff with major services and repairs as required.
• Assist with construction works when required, including control of traffic at worksites, performing routine labouring duties, and operating small to medium size plant items.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Specifically, you will have:

• Ability to competently perform labouring work and operate a variety of power tools and minor plant items
• Basic road maintenance and construction skills
• Ability to comprehend and follow verbal and written instructions and procedures
• Safe Work NSW Certificate in General WHS Induction (White Card)
• Current Class C Driver's Licence (Car) – HR (Heavy Rigid) preferred

NEED MORE INFORMATION OR ASSISTANCE

Ongoing position to join our casual pool.

Position related enquiries: Manager of Infrastructure Delivery, Phone – (02) 6730 2***, Email – **********@gisc.nsw.gov.au

Application process enquiries: Human Resources Officer, Phone – (02) 6730 2***, Email – ****@gisc.nsw.gov.au

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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