Shift Mechanic

• Don’t just work for the city; you'll co-create it!
• Permanent full-time role, 38-hours per week
• Flexible work arrangements available, including a 9-day fortnight

City of Newcastle (CN) is seeking experienced Mechanic to join our Workshop Team based at our Waratah Depot site. This role isn’t just about tools and tasks, it's about shaping your city. Your expertise will help deliver the essential services and safe, functional spaces that make our community liveable, inclusive and thriving.

The following opportunity is available:

• Permanent afternoon shift (between 1pm and 9.06pm), or
• Rotating shifts (day shift between 7am - 3.06pm and afternoon shift between 1pm - 9.06pm)

In this role, you’ll be responsible for servicing and maintaining CN’s diverse fleet, including garbage trucks, mobile and fixed plant, light vehicles, and NHVAS-accredited heavy fleet. You’ll work collaboratively to complete inspections and repairs within set timeframes, ensuring compliance with OEM standards and NSW/Australian accreditation requirements.

You’ll also provide maintenance advice, support team communication through toolbox talks and meetings, complete required documentation, and deliver excellent customer service at the service reception desk.

Here, your ideas and efforts directly shape the places where you and your community live, work, and play.

Find out more about your new career by viewing the position description here.

Life at City of Newcastle (CN)

You’ll get to experience your work up close alongside the brilliant minds of your colleagues who care for one another and the region.

You’ll chip away at ambitious plans with a talented, passionate crew alongside you, shaping the very fabric of our community. Showing up for neighbours not shareholders.

Every single day offers the chance to think big and act local. Planning and prioritising to achieve the most important outcomes with the community.

You’ll add value in the moments that matter. From librarians to lifeguards, in a range of iconic places, we achieve a better Newcastle together.

Whether we’re planning to host major events, providing essential services or supporting creative artists, it’s what we do when the cameras aren't rolling that matters most.

And we’ll be there for you in important times in your life. We embrace flexible work arrangements to find a balance that allows us to enjoy the city we shape.

Our focus on inclusion and respecting culture, will help you feel a deeper connection with others. You'll connect with internal communities that will help you to feel a sense of belonging and reflect the diversity of the growing region.

You’ll do meaningful work and do it sustainably as you take ideas from plan to play, in your own backyard.

With hundreds of different roles, each person adds their uniqueness to our culture and plays their part as we head towards our 2040 vision.

With natural assets and a focus on the environment, co-create a sustainable region with us.

Why join CN? 

At CN, we value our employees, and their wellbeing takes priority. We encourage employees to make time for what's important and provide the benefits to enable a work life balance that allow us to enjoy the city we shape. To read more, visit here! 

• 38-hour working week with flexible work arrangements including an optional 9-day fortnight
• 4 weeks of annual leave, 3 weeks of personal leave, plus 2 additional paid public holidays
• 17.5% annual leave loading yearly payment
• Paid parental leave for primary carers
• Industry leading employment conditions
• Corporate Fitness program from as little as $12.90 per fortnight
• Access to a range of exclusive CN employee benefits programs including Novated Lease options as well as access to reward and recognition vouchers
• Annual performance development plans and ongoing training and development opportunities
• Leading the CN Way leadership program
• Inclusion, Diversity & Equity (IDE) employee networks and initiatives
• Access to Health & Wellbeing programs including an Onsite Physiotherapist, Yoga and Mental Health Ambassador Groups

We champion inclusion so that everyone is valued, and we encourage innovation and creativity. We are committed to creating a safe and inclusive workplace where different styles, backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, encouraged, and respected.

People with diverse lived experiences (including but not limited to, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, people with diverse gender identities and sexualities, people from different cultural, racial, ethnic, religious and linguistic backgrounds, people with disability, carers, and veterans) are encouraged to apply.

Don’t just work for the city, co-create it. Join and expand your career at the City of Newcastle.

Application Closing Date: Monday 30 June 2025

Remuneration: $82,981.04 + 17.5% annual leave loading yearly payment + 11.5% Superannuation per annum for a 38-hour week plus:

• Fortnightly Tool allowance of $74.44
• Working Conditions allowance of $17.26 per fortnight
• $25.68 per day shift allowance

Contact: Jonathan Mercer - Workshop Manager - 02 4904 3358

If you need any adjustments to be made to the recruitment process or if you would like to discuss any accessibility requirements, please contact recruit@ncc.nsw.gov.au for a confidential discussion.