Trades Assistant

Join Central Coast Council as a Trades Assistant, where you'll play a crucial role in maintaining, improving, and constructing our sporting facilities, parks, and reserves, ensuring they remain vibrant and accessible for everyone!

• Calling all grounds, parks, reserves, roadsides or sports field maintenance specialists 
• Opportunities to add value across Central Coast community landscapes and recreational spaces
• Work/Life Balance - 9 day fortnight 
• Permanent full time role available!

About the role

The role of Trades Assistant is a diverse outdoor role which provides high quality maintenance support for local parks, sports fields or roadside landscapes across the Central Coast. Your day could include anything from vegetation management at parks, roadsides & sports grounds, improvements and repairs to infrastructure such as play equipment and a range of other activities to keep our public spaces safe and clean.

Council will also be creating an eligibility list from this recruitment process and may utilise this eligibility list to fill other permanent Trades Assistant vacancies.

This position is required to provide quality customer service and create value for the community.

Key activities of this role include:

• Working with your crew on a range of vegetation management activities within Council's sporting facilities, roadsides, parks or reserves
• Undertaking a range of facility maintenance, improvement works or new construction projects as required
• Ensuring that ovals, playing fields, parks and reserves are left in a clean and safe state on a daily basis to minimise risk of harm to the public
• Safe operation and maintenance of machines, vehicles, tools and equipment required to undertake the role.

About you:

• You have extensive relevant experience in general horticulture or landscaping, parks maintenance, or sports facilities and/or similar community recreation facilities
• You enjoy adding value to your team by bringing an innovative perspective and new ideas
• Safety is a key focus for you at work
• You have genuine enthusiasm for delivering quality services to the local community
• You hold a Class C Drivers Licence
• You hold a General Construction Induction Card (White Card) or you are willing to obtain prior to any offer of employment
• Traffic control qualifications would be highly regarded
• Having a work/life balance is important to you.

Our position description provides more information for you to learn more about this role.

Other important information

• The commencing salary for this position is up to $59.3k per annum. Central Coast Council also provides progression opportunities for employees to progress up to the maximum salary of $68.7k per annum on completion of assessment of skills and performance 11.5% superannuation 
• We have a permanent full time role available
• This role will be able to access a 9 day fortnight
• This role is located at the Charmhaven Depot, however will work across all Central Coast Council depots.

Extra benefits

At Central Coast Council we provide team members with a range of extras that help them balance their life when they need it. Fitness Passports give access to a range of gyms. Wellbeing leave can be accessed twice a year to tick off something that means something to you - volunteering, health check-ups. And an Employee Assistance Program that offers a range of wellbeing initiatives to help you and your immediate family.

Other extras include:

• Long service leave after 5 years of continuous service
• Free flu vaccination program
• Time provided for you to do annual skin cancer screening, Breast screen and blood donations
• Access to professional development with career development and learning programs through various platforms
• We reward and recognise our staff with our Cheers program
• Novated leasing partnerships. 

Central Coast Council is committed to the goals of equal opportunity employment. We aim to provide a work environment for our employees that fosters equity, diversity and respect.

Council is committed to providing safe environments that protect the physical, emotional, cultural and social wellbeing of children on the Central Coast.

Central Coast Council is ideally located on the northern fringe of Sydney and just an hour's drive from Newcastle, the Central Coast offers one of the best places in Australia to live and work. The Central Coast is one of the fastest growing regions in NSW, the third largest Local Government Area (LGA) in NSW and the 6th Largest LGA in Australia. 

How to apply

To lodge your application, please follow these steps:

1. Answer the on-line questions shown below.
2. Attach your resume 
3. Attach your qualifications and licences.

Once your application is successfully lodged you will receive an automated response sent to your e-mail address. If a response is not received this means that your application has not been successfully submitted and you will need to lodge another application.

If you require assistance to lodge your application please contact our Talent Acquisition team by emailing recruit@centralcoast.nsw.gov.au to discuss what reasonable adjustments you may need. If you are deaf, hearing or speech impaired, you can contact us through the National Relay Service TTY call 133 677 or Speak & Listen 1300 555 727.

Applicants who are selected for interview will be contacted by phone or e-mail. For further instructions please click here. 

You will have the ability to save your application as you go using the 'Save Application' button. You can start an application and return to it later via the automatic follow-up email once you have the time and required information at hand to finalise your application.  

If you don't have access to a computer or electronic device, you can lodge your application at any of Council's Library locations. Pre-book a free 1-hour computer timeslot by contacting your nearest library https://www.centralcoast.nsw.gov.au/libraries/our-branches or ask at the enquiry counter.

We will not accept unsolicited resumes or applications being presented by recruitment agencies.