Mlc Marshmead Maintenance Team Member

3 days ago


Kew, Australia Methodist Ladies' College Full time

**Methodist Ladies’ College**
**Position Description**

**Position: Maintenance Team Member**

**Reports to: Deputy Director of Marshmead (Operations & Logistics)**

**Department: Education Outdoors**

**Date: May 2015
**Primary Purpose**

The Maintenance team member is required to carry out a range of maintenance tasks
around the Marshmead village to assist with the up keep and day to day running of the
campus.
They may work with the Farm Manager in a variety of tasks on the Marshmead farm.

**Position in Context**

Marshmead is a 114ha property, located on a remote and environmentally sensitive
site in far eastern Victoria, surrounded by the Croajingolong National Park. Access to
the property is either by boat (25 minutes over the lake to Mallacoota) or by vehicle
(1:20hr to Mallacoota, 1:30hr to Eden). The property includes a residential village
(consisting of both staff and student housing) and a working farm. Produce from the
farm is used by the Marshmead community.

Teaching staff at Marshmead live and work on site. Residential staff are housed in
comfortable shared accommodation and these houses have been designed with ESD
principles in mind. Water is solar heated (wood heater boosted) and houses use wood
heaters as the principal source of heating. The ‘village’ operates on a remote area
power supply, limiting the use of some electrical items and water is obtained from
either rain harvesting or the local creek.

Twenty three staff (residential and non-residential staff), comprising teachers,
assistants and specialist staff, work in a team to ensure the delivery of a curriculum for
65-72 Year 9 students each term.

Marshmead offers a unique teaching environment with its close proximity to the
National Park and a local Biosphere Reserve. The curriculum at Marshmead focuses
on environmental sustainability, personal sustainability and sustainable communities,
enabling each student to actively experience learning about the environment, their
peers and themselves in a practical sense. The students manage their own living
arrangements in comfortable ESD designed ‘family’ homes, designed for eight
people. Students make a voluntary decision to participate in this eight week
program. A new group of students participate each term.

**Key Contacts**
**_Direct Reports _**
- Nil

**_Internal _**
- Director of Marshmead
- Deputy Director of Marshmead (Operations & Logistics).
- Marshmead Facilities Manager
- Marshmead Farm Manager

**_External _**
- Suppliers
- Neighbours
- Appropriate government agencies and authorities

**Major Duties and Responsibilities**

**Maintenance / Farm**
- To perform a variety of maintenance tasks around the Marshmead property

including building maintenance
- To perform a variety of preventative maintenance tasks around the Marshmead

property including building maintenance
- To provide maintenance on program equipment
- To perform maintenance on the Marshmead power and water systems
- Work on light construction tasks such as retaining walls, digging holes and repairing

fences
- To provide support to the Marshmead Farm Manager.
- Operate a ride on mower for periods of up to 2 hours over uneven and undulating

terrain
- Push a lawn mower for periods of up to 2 hours over uneven and undulating terrain
- Rake leaves around the Village area in preparing for the fire season
- Lift and carry for distances of up to 20 metres items weighing up to 20 kilograms

such as livestock feed bags, concrete bags and containers of fuel
- Manually split, transfer and stack wood at various locations
- Manually record information from weather measuring devices and analogue and

digital gauges on plant
- Report and make recommendations on maintenance and occupational health and

safety issues

**Other duties**
- To provide program logistics support in vehicle transport, boat movements and coast

runs
- Duties required by the Director or Deputy Director (Operations & Logistics)
- Working with students onsite as part of the Community Day program

**Travel to and from Marshmead**
The Maintenance team member will more often than not be able to use a College boat
to travel to work from Mallacoota. In so doing, the Maintenance team member must:
- Be able to provide and maintain a current Victorian Boat Operator’s Licence
- Be able to climb in and out of College boat and refuel them with containers of up to

10 litres
- Be approved to drive a College power boat by the Marshmead Boat trainer
- Be able to boat to and from Marshmead in all weather (where it is safe to do so)

and at times this includes travel in rough lake conditions
- On occasion it may be necessary to travel to Marshmead by four-wheel drive over

roads which are of varying conditions
**Person Specification**

**_Essential Criteria_** (competencies, qualifications, knowledge and experience)***
- Current Victorian Drivers licence
- A good understanding of general property and machinery maintenance.
- Demonstrated experience in property ma


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