Supervisor Bushcare

Supervisor Bushcare

Permanent Full Time + Fortnightly RDO’s

$78,303 - $90,000 per annum + Commuting work vehicle

New Registered Industrial Agreement 2024 payrises July 2024,2025 & 2026

Parks (Environment & Sustainability)
- Your canvas? The very heart of our community. Discover a career at the City of Armadale_

As the fastest-growing city in the state, Armadale offers an environment ripe with potential for professional advancement and personal growth.

Choosing to work for the City of Armadale presents a compelling opportunity due to several distinctive factors setting it apart from other local councils. Our city boasts extensive bushland, providing employees with unparalleled access to natural beauty, outdoor recreational opportunities, fostering a balanced and healthy lifestyle, involvement in numerous new projects, offering employees the chance to engage in cutting-edge initiatives and contribute meaningfully to community development.

As our Supervisor of Bushcare, you'll not only oversee restoration projects but also inspire a sense of pride and ownership among residents, empowering them to become guardians of their own backyard treasures.

Join us as the Supervisor of Bushcare, where you'll play a pivotal role in nurturing and revitalizing our precious wetlands and bush areas.

**What you will be working on**
- Lead a high performing team and drive adoption of safe work practices, provision of a high level of customer service and ensure a high standard of work as an active member of the leadership team.
- Coordinate maintenance activities in our native bushlands and other areas safely and sustainably through engagement of high performing teams built from both internal team members and external partners.
- Lead delivery of efficient, safe, and sustainable services, that result in superior programmed regeneration and maintenance of the City’s rehabilitation / revegetation of native bush and wetlands and delivery of environmental management plans and programs.

**What are we looking for**
- Minimum of a Certificate IV in Conservation and Land Management or relevant equivalent qualification.
- Identification and familiarization of natural vegetation regeneration/ revegetation, particularly in riverine/wetland areas.
- Appropriate weed identification control techniques.
- Basic bushfire risk management.
- Demonstrated experience and knowledge of land management principles and practices including maintenance, conservation, revegetation and regeneration in riverine, wetlands, riparian and natural environments.
- Experience with elements of contractor management.
- Ability to capture spatial field data using Geographical Spatial Systems (GIS)
- Awareness and or experience working with erosion and sedimentation matters.
- Possession of Current C Class Drivers Licence
- Possession of or ability to obtain a current National Police Certificate.

**The perks available to you**
- We are set up to improve your Wellbeing - Free membership to Armadale Fitness and Aquatic Centre, offering access to gym, pool, sauna, group classes as well as a annual calendar of Wellbeing events.
- If you put in extra super, we will match it (up to a maximum of 15%) which will help secure your financial future
- Flexible leave policies and additional days off
- Employee Assistance Program for personal and professional support
- 17.5% Annual Leave Loading for when you take annual leave

**How to Apply**: