Works Coordinator

Job No: 15845

Location: Wongan Hills, WA

Closing Date: 11 Mar 2010 AEDT

Welcome to the Shire of Wongan-Ballidu

The Shire is located in the centre of the Western Australian Wheatbelt and covers an area of 3,368 square kilometres. The region offers all the services of a city area while residents can enjoy the advantages of country living including clean air, lack of traffic, low crime and vandalism and a caring community. The community is well serviced with sporting facilities and well-presented, clean streets. Indeed the Wongan Hills townsite offers one of the most liveable communities in regional Western Australia. The service industries in the area provide high quality, reasonably priced services and are backed up by competent peripheral industries.

The strengths of the region include:

• the fact that the whole of shire has not been declared drought affected in its entire history;
• the relative reliability, financial strength and business diversity of the area;
• quality of life including lawfulness and geographical advantages;
• reasonable access to city;
• the potential for diversification of the industry base;
• stability and quality of the agricultural industry and agricultural products of the region; and
  
• quality health and medical facilities including a hospital, medical centre, dentist and pharmacist.

The community is undergoing a sense of revitalisation and rejuvenation at present with a hive of economic activity, and this has extended into families and retirees purchasing land and houses for positive gearing and future retirement plans.

About the Opportunity

Wongan-Ballidu Shire Council has an excellent opportunity for a Works Coordinator to join its close-knit, dynamic team in the lively rural township of Wongan Hills, WA.

As part of the Works & Services Department, the main aim of this role is to coordinate and schedule Council's Annual Works Program, as well as to supervise the Maintenance Team to ensure that road, drainage and maintenance programs are completed effectively.

If you have experience in scheduling and supervising civil projects, particularly with emphasis on road construction and maintenance, this could be a career-defining position! This is a multi-faceted and highly varied leadership role in which you will liaise with people from your Division, from other areas of Council and with external stakeholders in order to ensure Wongan-Ballidu Shire's record of excellent works is continued.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Ensuring contractors, plant and materials, including gravel supplies, are available in advance of all work;
• Providing regular feedback to the Manager Works & Services in relation to the progress and projects and any problems encountered;
• Instigating continual improvement modelling and reporting;
• Providing leadership, direction and supervision to the Maintenance Team;
• Ensuring that regular maintenance, repair or replacement is carried out on roadside and drainage infrastructure;
• Maintaining a high standard of plant and machinery operation and ensuring that regular maintenance and relevant log books are completed; and
  
• Approving the purchasing of goods and services including sourcing suppliers, obtaining quotations and signing of purchase orders.

Wongan-Ballidu Shire Council is seeking a highly organised and analytical applicant with relevant experience in road maintenance techniques, including drainage, pavement repairs (sealed and unsealed) and bitumen edge reconstruction. You will have a background in successfully scheduling and coordinating small to medium sized projects, and in supervising a small team of employees.

Within this role, you will need to apply basic surveying and engineering principles to a broad cross section of theoretical and practical engineering tasks, and have skills in reading design plans and using survey equipment.

You will also need excellent communication/interpersonal skills, a high level of computer literacy (particularly in Civil Engineering and Surveying, Main Roads Western Australia Road Inventory (ROMAN), MetroCount vehicle classifiers and Microsoft Office) and exposure to CAD.  All applicants require a current C Class driver's licence, an approved MRWA Traffic Controller's Certificate and a current Senior First Aid Certificate. Applicants with a HR licence are preferred.

Wongan-Ballidu Shire Council is very conscious of being an employer who encourages career advancement, and as such guarantee personal training and development.

The right candidate will be rewarded with an attractive remuneration package circa $84,000, including a generous base salary, up to 12% superannuation, salary sacrifice options to increase the value of your take-home salary, a shire vehicle with limited private usage, and uniforms.

Quality 4 x 2 housing is provided or a rental subsidy if you own your own house.  In addition, you will enjoy a utilities allowance, making the everyday 'cost of living' considerably cheaper. Council will also provide relocation assistance to the right candidate.

Working with one of WA's most progressive Councils, you will enjoy flexible working hours, allowing for a healthy work-life balance, and will also be provided with a mobile phone.