Permanent

Full-time (average of 38 hours per week)

The City of Rockingham is an award winning local government located 40km south of the Perth CBD and is known as the place where the coast comes to life.

One of the fastest growing local governments in the south metropolitan area, we are responsible for the provision and delivery of high quality services, facilities and events that meet or exceed community expectations.

Providing a safe and healthy workplace for our employees is important to us and we are committed to employing team members who share the City's Values of
Recognition,
Ethics,
Service,
Professional Development,
Empowerment,
Communication and
Teamwork - RESPECT.

These Values are incorporated into all aspects of employment at the City.

As part of the Parks Services Team, you are responsible for supervising internal work teams and external contractors, ensuring a proactive, high quality and cost effective maintenance service is delivered that meets the City's standards.

Using your leadership skills, you will direct subordinate staff to ensure performance targets are met, providing clear instruction on agreed levels of service.

Your well-developed interpersonal skills and ability to innovate, will enable you to ensure employees are performing at the required standards and you will support ongoing improvement of the team, participating in employee performance and professional development reviews.

You will promote working within a safe environment and will identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

Your experience of budgeting will enable you to review the annual budget information and prepare quantities and cost estimates for budget items.

You will also liaise with the Coordinator in the management of contract documentation, including tenders and quotes and maintenance of on-going contracts.

Your experience in tree management will allow you to review and develop Safe Work Method Statements and assist in the development of policies and procedures, as well as contributing to reports for Council consideration.

You are a self-motivated go-getter who is able to provide expert advice and strategic direction to the organisation and are comfortable communicating across all levels of the organisation and the community it serves with a qualification in Tree Management and possess a current valid 'C' class driver's licence.

• Advanced knowledge of amenity horticulture and public open space management
• Comprehensive knowledge in the preparation and implementation of cyclical maintenance schedules
• Comprehensive knowledge of landscape construction principles
• Comprehensive knowledge of plant, weed, pest and disease identification
• Strong written and interpersonal skills, particularly verbal communication
• Welldeveloped time management and organisational skills
• Intermediate level of computer literacy skills
• Welldeveloped knowledge of WHS legislation, policies and practices
• Ability to audit facilities for quality, compliance and defects
• Extensive demonstrated experience in the supervising operational maintenance requirements of all horticultural and public open space functions including in house field staff and contractors
• Extensive experience in horticultural management preferably in local government or in the area of commercial grounds maintenance
• Demonstrated experience in managing annual budgets, contracts, service requests, multidisciplinary projects and procurement

We are offering a gross salary from $88,929 to 95,469 per annum (depending on skills and experience), access to a City vehicle and:

• 11% superannuation with the option to co-contribute up to a further 5%
• A variety of health and wellbeing programs including a physical health reimbursement subsidy payment of up to $150 per annum, free flu vaccinations, free skin cancer checks, mental health programs and Employee Assistance Provider (EAP) services
• Flexible working arrangements, 9day fortnight and two additional paid days of absence per annum
• A culture of learning with training/development opportunities including paid study leave and study fees
• Salary packaging opportunities for motor vehicles, etc.

An information package, including the position description, is available on our website.

Applications must be submitted online by 4pm, Sunday 3 September 2023

This process may be used to fill future similar permanent or fixed-term positions that may become available in the City during the next 12 months.

• The City of Rockingham accepts applicants from a diverse range of backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people living with disability and people who speak a first language other than English._

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