Site Supervisor

**NATIONAL TRUST OF AUSTRALIA (NSW)**

**Role**: Site Supervisor
**Department**: Bush Regeneration
**Primary Location**:National Trust Centre (NTC) Observatory Hill, Millers Point, Sydney
**Reporting Manager**:Regional Manager
**Direct Reports**:Bush Management Field Staff
**Hours of work**:37.5 per week

**Organisation Overview**

The National Trust of Australia (New South Wales) is the State’s largest community based conservation organisation. The Bushland Management Services (BMS) division has been running continuously for over 38 years, providing a range of bushland management services to public and private landowners who require quality expertise to help manage conservation of bushland and biodiversity in the Greater Sydney region.

The goal of the National Trust’s Bushland Management team is to advocate and implement best practice methods for natural area restoration and management of our natural areas.

**Vision**: To be trusted as a leading guardian of Australia’s built, cultural and natural heritage, and defender of our sense of place and belonging in a changing world.

**Mission**: **Advocate** for the conservation of our built, cultural and natural heritage by engaging with the community and government.

**Conserve** and protect our built, cultural and natural heritage by example, advice and support.

**Educate** and engage the community by telling our stories in ways that awaken a sense of place and belonging.

**Primary Purpose**

This position is responsible for the supervision and training of Field Staff on bushland sites, fulfilment of contractual obligations in relation to sites under their control, and delivery of a suite of online reporting to facilitate site management, resourcing and client engagement.

**Key Accountabilities**

The position holder has responsibility for:

- Working in accordance with contract specifications and the relevant Regional Manager’s directions, to achieve desired outcomes within budgetary and time limitations.
- Ensuring client satisfaction through fulfilment of contractual requirements to a superior level.
- Ensuring that business is conducted in accordance with the National Trusts (NT)

Integrated Management system (IMS) requirements and guidelines.
- Providing competent and confident leadership to field staff and volunteers.
- Providing supervision, training, technical advice and support to field staff and volunteers in accordance with the works program.
- Conducting competency assessments to field staff, when required **.**:

- Liaison with the relevant Regional Manager to provide input and support on the effectiveness of field operations.
- Identifying and reporting management issues of concern to the appropriate Regional

Manager in a timely manner.
- Organise tasks and manage field staff to ensure teams work efficiently and co
- operatively to meet contractual objectives.
- Ensuring all field operations, client and public contacts are undertaken in a confident and competent manner, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation, regulations, client and company policies, and NT’s management strategies.
- Ensuring safe work practices are undertaken in accordance with WHS protocols and procedures, including conducting regular tool box talks and safely discussions as per

NT’s consultation policy.
- Undertaking responsibility for the First Aid kit, tool security, chemical storage and handling and in emergency situations, should they arise.
- Reporting and recording all accidents and incidents to the relevant Regional Manager and Human Resources, in a timely manner.
- Recording and reporting staff attendance through the Work Flow Max time capture system, noting starting, finishing times each day.
- Ensuring all staff work in accordance with the relevant Award/Agreement and comply with Trust Policies, Procedures and the Terms and Conditions of their Employment

Contract.
- Understanding and adhering to the relevant legislation including, but not limited to,

WHS Act and the Pesticide Act and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, as required.

**Administration and Reporting**
- Undertaking daily toolbox talks with their staff.
- Preparing and submitting time sheets via Workflow MAX at the end of each day.
- As part of your reporting responsibilities, prepare and submit a daily site report at the end of each day which will include, but is not limited to, information relating to weeds targeted, herbicide used, areas worked, Site condition maps and photographs from pre identified photo points.
- Assisting in the development of site works to satisfy project scope and the Regional

Managers/clients vision for restoration outcomes.
- Ensuring that staff PPE is distributed as required and recorded on the PPE equipment register.
- Proactively undertaking checks on PPE and stocks of Herbicide and First Aid equipment and notifying the relevant Regional Manager if additional or replacement items are needed, ensuring sufficient time for this equipment to be repl