Cemeteries Attendant Ranger Pd

4 weeks ago


Cootamundra, Australia Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council Full time

**_POSITION NUMBER DATE ADOPTED: APPROVED BY: LAST REVIEWED: _**
September 2023 Matt Stubbs

Deputy General
Manager

September 2023

**Position Description
**A. POSITION PROFILE**

**Position**:
Cemeteries Attendant/Ranger

**Position Occupant**:

- Vacant _

**Position Evaluation**:

- Award: Band 1 Level 3 _
- Salary System Grade: 6_

**Department**:

- Deputy General Manager
- Operations _

**Section/Group**:

- Regional Servcies _

**Conditions of Employment**:

- Local Government (State) Award 2023 _
- Australian Citizen or Right to Work in Australia _
- Permanent Full-time_

**Location**:
Cootamundra Gundagai

**Direct Supervisor**:

- Manager Regional Services _

**Additional Benefits**:

- Nine Day Fortnight Agreement _

**Number of Staff Supervised by this position**:
Nil

**B. STATEMENT OF FUNCTION**

This position assists in the excavation and preparation of gravesites for burial at Council Cemeteries. Provides
grounds’ keeping, repairs and maintenance and cleaning services at the Council cemeteries and other
designated public areas. Supports and relieves the Ranger to attend to compliance matters.

**C. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**

1. Ensures a high level of presentation of surroundings for mourners and visitors at Council cemeteries.
2. Ensures graveside areas are prepared in co-operation with funeral directors in a timely and sensitive

manner.
3. Routinely clean Council’s public amenities to a high standard to provide hygienic facilities for the

general public.
4. Ensures grounds’ keeping at Council cemeteries complies with the Voluntary Conservation

Agreements covering those locations.
5. Ensure compliance with Council’s Work Health & Safety and Risk policies and procedures for the

provision of worker and public safety.
6. Assist and relieve Council’s Rangers to attend to compliance matters under the Companion Animals

Act, POEI Act, Local Government Act, Impounding Act and Roads act and assist with dog control
duties, pound maintenance and the welfare of impounded animals.

7. Working within Council’s Park and Gardens team, including labouring, mowing, spraying and other
duties as required.

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**D. DUTIES**

**Cemetery Maintenance and Operations**
1. Undertake garden labour duties such as tidying, weeding, spraying, fertilising and mulching of garden

areas within the cemetery grounds.
2. Conduct mowing and trimming to maintain cemetery lawns.
3. Clear and remove vegetation, rubbish and debris from cemetery areas.
4. Respond to Customer Action Request System (CARS) request to prepare as gravesite, including

location, excavation and presentation of the gravesite by the required time.
5. Support plant operators to excavate graves in preparation for burial, direct movement of plant and

loads and communicate work site conditions and information.
6. Manually excavate graves in preparation for burial where plant cannot access gravesite.
7. Set up bollards, temporary fencing and cover to secure gravesite and prepare and present graveside

to enable undertaker to set up for burial.
8. Backfill grave post funeral, ensuring gravesite is mounded to allow for soil settling.
9. Maintain gravesites including removing spent wreathes and litter, top dressing, levelling, weeding,

trimming and mowing.
10. Attach brass plaques on lawn cemetery plots as requested.
11. Maintain and operate cemetery irrigation systems where applicable.

**Amenities Cleaning and Maintenance**
12. Carry out routine internal and external cleaning of designated public and council amenities.
13. Manually collect and empty rubbish bins, including the collection and disposal of sharps units.
14. Undertake cleaning of walls and surfaces and the removal of graffiti within designated public and

council work areas.
15. Carry out pest control and fumigation of amenities, within designated public and council work areas.
16. Carry out minor plumbing and fixture repairs to public toilets such as replacing cistern seals and

broken toilet seats.
17. Monitor useage and replenish cleaning products and consumables and maintain storage areas for

cleaning equipment and products.

**Ranger Duties**
18. When required carry out stray dog patrolling within town limits and monitor repeat offenders.
19. Respond when required to customer complaints regarding straying dogs and take appropriate action

following Council procedure and Companion Animal Act Regulations.
20. Ensure personal and public safety is maintained while undertaking regulatory duties.
21. Impound straying dogs and attend to their daily welfare until claimed as per Council procedures.
22. Maintain Pound facility, including cleaning and securing of pens, mowing, trimming and spraying of

surrounds, and maintaining Pound supplies.
23. Carry out other ranger duties as directed, including investigation of illegally dumped waste,

abandoned vehicles, parking control duties and water restriction monitoring.

**General Labouring**
24. Undertake weekend cleaning a



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