Closed Landfills Field Officer

Hume City Council is one of Australia's fastest growing and culturally diverse councils. We put the customer and our community at the centre of all that we do, ensuring our services are efficient and accessible. Part of the Waste and Sustainability department, the Resource Recovery Centres and Closed Landfills unit manages the environmental compliance, remediation and rehabilitation of Council's closed landfills, in addition to managing the operations of Council's two Resource Recovery Centres.

As the Closed Landfills Field Officer, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the safe, efficient, and effective management of closed landfills for the Hume community. Primarily, you will monitor Council's closed landfill sites, ensuring they are managed in accordance with Hume City Council's policies and procedures, and best-practice principles, in addition to State and Federal government legislation, permits, licences, policies, regulations and directions. Your knowledge and skills in the monitoring and the management requirements of closed landfills, alongside your strong administration and communication skills, will be crucial to your success in this role.

What you'll be doing:

• Assist the Senior Landfill Remediation Engineer to ensure Council's Closed Landfills are monitored and managed in alignment with all relevant policy, legislation and regulatory requirements.
• Deliver Council's Closed Landfill monitoring program to ensure compliance with relevant EPA regulations and auditor recommendations.
• Undertake regular inspections at closed landfills sites in accordance with requirements, taking action to resolve issues and maintaining required records.
• Audit and monitor the closed landfill management activities (including external parties), ensuring services are delivered on-time, to a high standard, adhere to agreements, safety and industry standards, and are undertaken in alignment with all relevant policy, legislation and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure decisions are made in accordance with sound professional practice and within delegated authority. Assist with the preparation of business cases and medium to long-term forward plans for projects associated with managing Council's closed landfills, including, landfill gas and leachate management, maintenance of capping, and final cap design and construction at Riddell Road landfill.

Support the Senior Landfill Remediation Engineer to undertake public and/or stakeholder consultation, as required, in relation to proposed projects, works and services within the Closed Landfills group.

The skills and experience you'll bring to the role:

• Experience and knowledge of closed landfill management and EPA Victoria requirements.
• Demonstrated project management skills, safely managing capital and implementation projects from concept to project closure within approved budgets, specifications, program, stakeholder and EPA requirements.
• Comprehensive understanding of landfill operations, landfill monitoring and compliance, and landfill gas and leachate management systems.
• Experience in assisting with the development and implementation of policies, procedures and systems relating to closed landfill management.
• Ability to plan, set priorities, and manage time, to ensure services are delivered to the agreed standards.
• Ability to efficiently implement daily, weekly and longer-term work plans.
• Good communication skills and qualities and be adept at conflict resolution.
• Ability to encourage people (including self) to effectively deliver services.
• Ability to supervise resources to ensure service continuity.

Selection criteria

• Tertiary qualifications in engineering, environmental science/management or a related discipline with relevant experience working in the field.
• Experience in undertaking regular monitoring and/or inspections, documenting and recording observations (including using electronic devices).
• Highly developed written and oral communication skills, including provision of high-quality, professional written and verbal reports and presentations including for external parties and agencies (including EPA Victoria).
• Ability to work independently with limited supervision.
• Current driver's licence is essential (with experience driving light vehicles off-road/at landfills preferred).

Required Certifications & Qualifications

• Tertiary qualifications in engineering, environmental science/management or a related discipline with relevant experience working in the field.
• Experience in the successful delivery of landfill management and remediation projects including planning, coordination, management and delivery within agreed timeframes, budgets and industry standards.
• Experience in undertaking regular monitoring and/or inspections, documenting and recording observations (including through the use of electronic devices), and escalating relevant matters for resolution.
• Highly developed written and oral communication skills, including provision of high-quality, professional written and verbal reports and presentations including for external parties and agencies (including EPA Victoria).
• Demonstrated experience complying with and working to Occupational Health and Safety regulations, policies and procedures.
• Current driver's licence (experience driving light vehicles off-road/at landfills preferred).

Why Hume City Council?

A leader in local government, we're committed to creating an inclusive and collaborative work environment that is guided by our values:

• We're better, every day: We give things a go and value progress over perfection. We have permission to go for it and are expected to reflect and learn.
• We're in it together: At Hume, everyone matters. We Welcome and include all. Respect and safety are expected.
• We show up: We empower and trust others and own our work. We rise to the challenges and are expected to do what we say we will.
• All for Hume: We strive to achieve our best for the Hume Community. We are proud and passionate about working towards better outcomes and expect they are at the centre of everything we do.

We offer a competitive salary package, professional development opportunities, and a supportive work environment. A child safe organisation and an equal opportunity employer. Council encourages people of all ages, people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.

All candidates will be required to undertake background and probity checks including Reference Checks, Working with Children Check, and a Criminal Record Check along with answering the mandatory application questions.

Other information

• Seniority level: Entry level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Other
• Industries: Government Administration