▷ (30/10/2025) Planning Administration Officer

Overview

Permanent | Part time | 45.6 hours per fortnight

This position is classified as a PACS Band 5 ($78,485– $85,493 p.a pro rata) under the City of Kwinana’s structured remuneration system.

About the Role

A rare and rewarding opportunity exists for an enthusiastic Administration Officer to join our busy Planning department at the City of Kwinana. This position provides a wide range of administrative, clerical and customer service duties to support the City’s Planning and Development Team. The position engages frequently with internal teams and external stakeholders/customers and is expected to provide a high level of customer service, responding to, and providing information, across a broad range of typically routine Planning Department related enquiries in person, over the phone and in writing including emails.

About Us

The City of Kwinana is a thriving ocean-side community at the heart of Western Australia’s major industrial development and has the second fastest growing population within any local government area in the state. The City has seen extensive redevelopment including new residential areas, schools, retail precincts, community facilities and transport links that continue to transform Kwinana into a unique and liveable City.

About You

- Demonstrate relevant experience in providing broad based administration activities including minute taking, to support the operations of a business area.

- Previous experience in local government planning.

- Good competency in Microsoft Office products, word processing, including the preparation of a range of documentation and spreadsheets.

- Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to liaise effectively with diverse stakeholders and customers and gain their cooperation.

- Demonstrated commitment to excellent customer service.

- Strong organisational and problem-solving skills, initiative, ability to lead and work effectively in a team environment, and ability to prioritise tasks.

- Ability to deal with sensitive and confidential issues with a high level of tact and discretion and sound judgement.

- Qualification or extensive experience in business administration.

Application

Interested? To be considered for this position, applicants must address the above criteria in no more than two (2) pages.

Please note that the successful candidate must be available to work every Friday, with the remaining two days of the week to be negotiated.

For more information relating to the position, please contact Brett Cammell, Manager Planning and Development on 9439 0234.

Important Dates

Applications close: 5.00 PM, Wednesday 12 November 2025

The City of Kwinana reserves the right to commence recruitment prior to the closing date, and will not accept or consider late applications.

The City of Kwinana promotes and values diversity to create a unique workforce. Applicants from diverse backgrounds, such as Aboriginal people, people living with disability or people from different cultural backgrounds are encouraged to apply. The City also strives to be a customer-centric organisation, with the customer at the centre of everything we do. As such, all employees play an important role in helping us to achieve this by ensuring they provide best-practice customer service. The City has the goal of zero harm for its employees, this includes providing a smoke-free environment and minimising exposure to the elements. Conditions of employment are in accordance with the City’s current Industrial Agreement. For further information, please contact our Recruitment team on 9236 4618 or 92364628.

Please note: As part of the City’s recruitment process, the selected applicant will be required to undergo a pre-employment medical which includes a Drug and Alcohol screen test.

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