Senior Overseer – Mechanical Fitter in Sydney

Location – Parklea Correctional Centre, Parklea NSW

Employment type – Talent Pool Creation Only

Salary – $108,197 pa + Incidental Allowance, Superannuation and Leave Loading

Lead a team. Shape futures. Build a career with purpose. Are you an experienced and licensed Mechanical Fitter, Fitter and Turner or have an engineering related trade with strong leadership skills looking for more than just another maintenance role? At the Parklea Correctional Centre, you'll combine your trade expertise with people leadership, mentoring both staff and inmates while ensuring one of NSW's largest correctional facilities continues to operate safely and efficiently.

About The Role

As Senior Overseer, you will play a key leadership role within the Facilities Maintenance team at the correctional centre. You will lead and support Overseers, coordinate maintenance activities and develop inmates through structured, practical workplace training that builds trade skills, work readiness and future employment opportunities. You will be responsible for planning and coordinating preventative, corrective and statutory maintenance activities, allocating labour and resources, monitoring service delivery and supporting continuous improvement across the correctional complex. You will help ensure maintenance services are delivered safely, efficiently and to a high standard while meeting requirements relating to security, workplace health and safety, asset management, compliance and probity.

This is more than managing day-to-day operations — it is an opportunity to share your technical and leadership expertise, develop people, improve the performance of the facility and create meaningful pathways toward rehabilitation and future employment.

What You'll Do

• Lead, coach and develop Overseers and work teams to achieve operational and organisational objectives.
• Plan, coordinate and oversee maintenance activities, ensuring resources are effectively allocated and priorities are delivered.
• Supervise, train and mentor inmates through practical workplace activities, building vocational skills, safe work practices and work readiness.
• Monitor the quality, timeliness and effectiveness of maintenance services and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Ensure work is undertaken in accordance with policies, procedures, security requirements and probity obligations.
• Maintain a safe and compliant workplace for staff, contractors, inmates and visitors.
• Work collaboratively with internal stakeholders, contractors and service providers to support reliable facility operations.

The Successful candidates are provided with paid training to undertake Certificate III in Correctional Practice at an allocated Corrective Services Academy training facility.

Essential Requirements

• Relevant trade or tertiary qualifications (minimum Certificate III level in the following): Fitter, Fitter & Turner, Mechanical Fitter or related engineering trade.
• Current Certificate III in Correctional Practice or capacity to complete within 12 months.
• Ability and willingness to work across trades as required.
• Current NSW Driver Licence and preparedness to drive a vehicle while performing the role.
• Experience which demonstrates the ability to meet the key accountabilities and focus capabilities as detailed in the role description.

We focus on hiring people who share our commitment and goals of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, courage and integrity. If you meet the essential requirements and the role resonates with you, you do not need to meet every desired requirement for us to want to talk to you.

We do work that really matters. Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It's work that really matters. Are you ready to join us?

For more information about the role or what it's like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Benjamin Moroko via . If you've got a question about applying or would benefit from an adjustment in the recruitment process to help you perform at your best, please contact Jessica Genovese via or . Visit Recruitment adjustments on the DCJ website to learn more.

Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit. We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups. To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit Inclusion and diversity on the DCJ website.

Other Information

A talent pool will be created for future ongoing and temporary roles at Parklea Correctional Centre and is valid for a period of up to 18 months. For more information visit Your recruitment journey on the DCJ website.

Thank you for your interest in this role. We look forward to receiving your application.