Team Leader Waste Operations

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

- **Salary: $89,434.78K + Super**:

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

**About Merri-bek City Council**:
Merri-bek City Council is a progressive council of 175,000 residents: one community, proudly diverse. Our council area sits within the banks of the Merri Creek and the Moonee Ponds Creek, and includes Brunswick, Coburg, Fawkner, Glenroy, Gowanbrae, Hadfield, Oak Park and Pascoe Vale. Our city is vibrant and energetic, known for its active community, cultural diversity, creative industries and the arts. Our long-term vision has ambitious goals for environmental sustainability, social justice, community wellbeing, and creating great places. 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 Council strives to be a contemporary, innovative and collaborative organisation with a deep commitment to engaging and supporting the Merri-bek community. Our organisational vision is to be one team, brave and diverse, making a difference.

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. With the Civic Centre located in Coburg, 8 kilometres north of Melbourne’s CBD, there are excellent public transport options and great food, cafés, parks and a cinema right at the doorstep. Merri-bek is a great place to live, work and play.

**About the role**:
Supervise daily waste collection operations to ensure the safe, efficient and effective operation of Council’s kerbside collection services, across all streams and services delivered directly by Council.

Work with the Coordinator Waste Operations to ensure daily resource needs are met and drivers have clarity on their tasks and objectives for the day., provide day to day staff supervision, management of time sheets, and be the conduit to addressing any immediate concerned

Driving/Operating Waste Vehicles and delivering kerbside waste collection services as necessary, either a specific collection run or on a more ad hoc basis addressing customer requests, e.g. missed bins or to support other drivers to achieve service outcomes.

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

- Proven experience in leading people, including day-to-day supervision, development of work and development plans and providing constructive feedback.
- Superior customer service skills and demonstrated experience delivering service excellence in a similar role.
- Demonstrated knowledge of, and experience of ways to engage with people to achieve open communication and collaboration.
- Demonstrated ability to manage time, including setting priorities, planning and organising one's own work to complete assigned tasks.
- Experience in planning and delivering waste collection services.
- A current Victorian Driver’s Licence with a Heavy Rigid Licence Endorsement and experience operating side and rear loader compactor trucks.

**What the role can offer**:

- 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

**Applications close: 11:30pm, Tuesday, 28 January 2025.**

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**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.

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.

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**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.

Merri-bek City Council is committed to being a Child Safe Organisation and has zero tolerance for child abuse. We believe children and young people have the right to be and feel safe and that their safety and wellbeing is the responsibility of everyone. You can read more about our Child Safety Commitment Statement on our website.