Heavy Plant Officer

**Heavy Plant Officer**

**This opportunity offers**:

- Ongoing employment
- Full time role & 35 hour working week
- Attractive annual salary $94,552 - $104,329 p.a. plus 11.5% superannuation
- Location: Glendenning (flexible working arrangements considered)
- Free onsite car parking

**Join Our Team: Protect, Serve, and Make a Difference**

We are the Rural Fire Service (RFS), a dedicated community of volunteers providing fire and emergency services to approximately 95% of NSW. When you work with the RFS, you join a passionate team committed to protecting our neighbours, the wider community, and the environment from the threat of bushfires and other emergencies. With over 70,000 volunteer members and staff, we embody the spirit of mutual respect, support, friendship, and camaraderie. We are one team with many players, united by a single purpose. If you share our passion for community service and environmental protection, we want to hear from you Become a part of our mission to safeguard lives and our cherished NSW landscapes.

**What You’ll be doing**:
The role supports the implementation of heavy plant operational support, ensuring alignment to relevant policies and standards, for all heavy plant and specialised operational equipment across the NSW RFS.

**To thrive in this role, you will have**:

- A Certificate IV in a relevant discipline (e.g. Civil Construction Plant Operations or Public Safety (Firefighting Supervision)), or equivalent expertise.
- A current Driver License and the willingness and ability to travel.
- Have experience with working with computers and systems to maintain functions within a role
- During periods of major fire activity, the incumbent may be required to support operational management activities consistent with their skills and background.

If you are interested in finding out more about this opportunity, please access the **role description** **and our **organisation structure**.

**Why work for us?**
- Corporate uniform available
- Attractive leave entitlements including **4 weeks **annual leave per year, plus more
- Free access to our Member Assistance Program (MAP) for all RFS members, and their immediate family
- Salary packaging options available
- One ‘Agreed Absence’ leave day per calendar month
- Ongoing learning and professional development programs (RFS is a Registered Training Organisation giving you access to various internal courses)
- Partnership with Fitness Passport for eligible RFS staff and their families to access more than 845 gyms and pools

**Looking for more information?**

Why not reach out to our role expert Cameron Wade, Supervisor Heavy Plant, for a confidential chat on 0408 656 341.

**To ignite your RFS journey**:

- A **cover letter** in PDF format, addressing how you meet the essential requirements of the role, outlining your suitability and why you are interested in this opportunity;
- Describe how you have demonstrated excellent customer service to an external provider of goods or services. What indicators showed you had provided the stakeholder with a level of exemplary service.
- Tell us about your use of technology to maintain awareness of external providers compliance to set policies and procedures. What systems do you use to monitor and interpret data.

**Important recruitment Information**
- A **recruitment (talent) pool** may be created through this recruitment process to fill future ongoing, temporary, casual and term, full time or part time opportunities.
- We value a diverse and inclusive workplace and are committed to ensuring our employees represent the diversity of communities that we serve.
- Learn more about how RFS members support communities across NSW below_

**Vacancy Reference: R24/302**

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This may not be the role for you, however you can check out other vacancies in the RFS **here**, or consider **volunteering** with your local Brigade.