Heavy Plant Operator (Drainage)

• Permanent Full-Time (76 hours per fortnight)
• From $62,343 per annum (includes super)
• Allowances and Overtime
• Nine Day Fortnight

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. 

• 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
• Education assistance

• Receive and act on written work orders or verbal instructions from the Maintenance Works Coordinator, Drainage Team Leader or other assigned supervisor.
• Operate heavy plant such as an excavator, backhoe, skid steer loader, rollers, trucks or similar to construct or maintain Council infrastructure, with a focus on  road drainage infrastructure. This includes open drains and culverts.
• Estimate the quantities and weights of loose materials such as soil, rock and gravel, and load the correct quantities and weights of materials onto trucks, trailers or other locations.
• Correctly install, extend or repairs pipes, box culvert units and headwalls including placing, joining, backfilling and grouting of precast products.
• Perform routine day-to-day inspections, cleaning, maintenance and repairs to assigned plant and equipment to maximise the reliable and useful life of machines and their accessories, including checking and changing all oil levels, lubricating parts, changing filters, checking hydraulic fluids, etc. Assist Council's workshop staff with major services and repairs as required
• Ensure that all work conforms to required safety standards, including completion of risk assessments and site-specific training for employees / contractors, installation and maintenance of signage, and implementation of Work Method Statements and Traffic Control Plans.

• Ability to competently operate heavy plant to excavate, level, shape and compact work sites and trenches
• Ability to competently operate and maintain a variety of power tools and minor plant items to complete routine maintenance and construction tasks
• Minimum Class MR (Medium Rigid) drivers’ licence - Class HR (Heavy Rigid) is desirable
• Safe Work NSW WHS General Construction Induction (White Card)
• Experience in road drainage construction and maintenance would be desirable

• Applications close: 5:00pm on Monday 24 June 2024
• Carefully read the Information Package to familiarise yourself with the role and application process
• Please ensure that you attach a copy of a recent resume
• Position specific enquiries may be directed to Tony Kamphorst, Manager of Infrastructure Delivery on (02) 6730 2373 or email akamphorst@gisc.nsw.gov.au
• Any enquiries relating to the application process may be directed to Helen Stapleton on (02) 6730 2303 or email jobs@gisc.nsw.gov.au
• Please note that as part of Glen Innes Severn Council's recruitment process, prior to an offer of employment being made, recommended candidates will be required to undertake referee checks, police checks and a functional assessment with Council’s physiotherapist. 
• All correspondence will be via the email address you supply as part of your application, therefore please ensure that the email address is valid and that you check it regularly (please be sure to check your junk email also).