Supervisor Streetscape Horticulture Program

Infrastructure | Operations Centre, Natalie Way, Balcatta
- Closing date: 21/01/2025

**About Us**

**Infrastructure Directorate**

The Infrastructure Directorate is the City of Stirling’s largest and most diverse Directorate, managing many of the City’s important assets and services while delivering a multi-million-dollar portfolio of projects.

This Directorate is responsible for the ongoing delivery of the City’s sustainability program, as well as contributing heavily to the City of Stirling’s vibrant local economy, liveable neighbourhoods and thriving communities.

**About the Position**

This position is responsible for coordinating and supervising the upkeep of high profile horticultural landscape assets within the City. This includes but is not limited to Public Open Space, roundabouts, medians, verges, community and civic centre landscapes.

**Key Responsibilities**

This role coordinates all human, plant, fleet and financial resources required to complete Horticultural Services maintenance works and is also responsible for:

- Maintaining and regularly reviewing management works schedules.
- Ensuring contractor compliance with contract specification standards.
- Developing and maintaining an atmosphere of continuous improvement for employees and quality of works in the Horticultural Services Unit.
- Customer enquiries and complaints relating to Streetscape and Horticultural Service Programs.
- Workplace safety.

**About You**
- Diploma in Horticulture or demonstrated equivalent competency. Licenses, certificates or degrees
- Demonstrated ability to guide and motivate a team towards achieving goals.
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills for clear and effective interaction across a large organisation and with external customers
- Demonstrate leadership in the development and upgrading of streetscapes and civic landscapes including motivation, practical initiative.Ability to prioritise tasks and manage time efficiently to meet deadlines.
- Flexibility to adjust to changing priorities and work environments
- Intermediate skills using MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint).

For further information, please refer to the position description.

**What We Offer**

The City offers some great benefits including flexibility in when and where you work to ensure a work-life balance. You will also enjoy a range of other benefits including:

- Superannuation matching of up to 6%
- Professional development opportunities, including training, memberships, and study assistance
- Excellent leave entitlements including annual leave loading and the ability to purchase up to an additional 4 weeks’ annual leave per year
- Up to 10 weeks paid parental leave
- Employee health and wellness program and initiatives including yearly flu vaccinations
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family
- Employee recognition program

This permanent full-time position is a Level 7 Inside Workforce Agreement positions which attract a salary from $96,731 gross per annum plus superannuation.

**To be eligible to work for us, you need to provide, or have ability obtain a**:

- A copy of Australian driving licence
- National Police Clearance (valid within the last 3 months)
- Pre-Employment Medical and DAS clearance
- The right to work in Australia

**More about the City**

The City of Stirling is a diverse and thriving local government in Western Australia, with over 243,000 residents, spanning 30 suburbs, the City is a cosmopolitan, multicultural and economic hub.

With over 1,400 employees, the City embraces its diverse workforce by supporting work-life balance and offering opportunities for progression and development. Here at City of Stirling we celebrate and support inclusion and diversity.

We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the City of Stirling, the Wadjak People of the Nyoongar Nation, and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia. We will act with compassion and respect towards all people and value people of all abilities, ages, religions, faiths, sexualities, gender identity and cultural backgrounds.