Street Furniture Installer

**Full time permanent role (35 hours per week)**:

- **Fortnightly RDO**:

- **Salary: $69,463.45**:

- **Ability to transfer or take LSL (Long Service Leave) within Local Government**

**About Merri-bek City Council**:
Merri-bek is a progressive council with 180,000 residents: one community, proudly diverse. Our city is vibrant and energetic, known for its active community, array of fabulous festivals, cool pools, eclectic shops and our community of artists and creative industries. As a Council, we’ve been supporting our community through difficult times, and our long term vision has ambitious goals for environmental sustainability, community wellbeing, and creating great places.

Merri-bek Council strives to be a contemporary, innovative and collaborative organisation with a deep commitment to engagement with, the Merri-bek community. With the Civic Centre located in Coburg, 8 kilometres north of Melbourne’s CBD, there are excellent public transport options and great food and cafés right at the doorstep. Merri-bek City Council is a great place to live, work and play.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive and welcoming workplace. We offer flexible and hybrid work options and genuinely care about providing our staff work/life balance.

**Our organisation vision is: One team brave and diverse making a difference.**

**About the role**:
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced individual who enjoys working within a dynamic team, carrying out maintenance and improvement works on Council’s infrastructure assets in a safe and efficient manner.

In the role you will be joining a growing unit with a strong and supportive team culture. You will also be conducting various road maintenance activities including the repair and installation of council infrastructure assets, mainly asphalt. The role would be best suited to an individual who works well within a team and has an understanding of maintenance practices.

**Skills and experience require to perform the role**:

- Experience in the principles and techniques of road maintenance and construction and road signage set out.
- Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience in the use of small hand tools and small plant such as drills, generators, vibrating plates and concrete
- Ability to understand sketches, diagrams and maps related to the work area.
- A current Victorian Drivers Licence with a minimum Medium Rigid Truck Licence and White/Red card.
- Willingness to work as part of a team.

**What the role can offer**:

- Fortnightly RDO
- Extensive opportunities for training & career development
- Salary sacrifice options
- A real sense of work-life balance & flexible work options
- Employer-supported study assistance schemes
- Wellness programs

**Further support offered for our staff**:

- Up to 20 weeks primary & up to 5 weeks secondary parental leave
- Purchase leave
- Ceremonial leave
- Gender affirmation leave
- Family violence leave

**For further information about this position please contact Matthew Johnson on 03 9240 1111**

Merri-bek is focused on diverse representation of the community we serve. With this we value lived experience that could contribute to the shaping of this role and in turn will continue to provide representation and growth of safe and inclusive work culture.

**Applications close: 11:30pm, Tuesday, 7 February 2023.**

**How to apply**:

- Please note that some documents relating to this position may reference Moreland City Council. We are in the process of updating the councils new name of Merri-bek City Council.

**Our Commitment**:
In May 2021, Merri-bek Council adopted a revised Statement of Commitment to Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung People and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities of the municipality. The statement recognises the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people as the traditional owners of the lands and waterways of our municipality.