Street Sweeper Driver Small Shopping Centre

**Full time permanent role (based on 35 hours per week)**
- **Fortnightly RDO**
- **Exciting change agenda and fantastic new team**
- **Salary: $83K + 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**:
Merri-bek City Council is offering a fantastic opportunity for an individual to join our team as a Street Sweeper Driver - Small shopping Centres. This position is attached to the Street Cleansing Unit. Reporting to the Works Officer Programmed Services. The Street Sweeper Driver position is an integral part of our programmed services. Providing support to clean the streets in our shopping strips, working as part of the broader Street Cleansing Unit. You will be required to work independently and a part of the broader Street Cleansing Unit, particularly with our Shopping Strip Crew including the Sydney Road Program. Shifts work between 3.30am - 12pm Monday to Friday, as well as the capacity to be part of a regular overtime roster covering the weekends.

Working independently or in partnership team members within the broader Street Cleansing Unit to sweep main and smaller shopping strips within the municipality. Completing programmed works, utilising maps and technology to track the scheduled works.

Availability to participate in our overtime roster covering other services within the Street Cleansing Unit.

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

- A current Victorian Drivers Licence with Heavy or Medium Rigid Endorsement,
- Demonstrated experience in driving Footpath Street Sweeper and operating a range of small plant and equipment.
- Demonstrated experience in providing a high standard of street cleansing and / or related maintenance programs
- An open and curious mindset to help inform our continuous improvement opportunities within the unit

**What the role can offer**:

- Fortnightly RDO
- 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, Wednesday 12 November 2025.**

** 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.

** 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.