Schools Officer, Ground and Facilities

2 weeks ago


Gold Coast, Australia Education Full time

About the School
The Arundel State School campus is comprised of 47 classroom spaces with internet and wireless connectivity and interactive projection facilities in all. The external facilities include two ovals, four adventure playgrounds as well as multipurpose courts.
About the Role
The Schools Officer, Grounds and facilities will be responsible for:

- The day to day activities that may include delivering and collecting mail, parcels and documents; recording and delivering of messages; printing and photocopying; preparing classrooms for examinations and preparing activity/assembly halls, including moving/arranging furniture and seating; removing and relocating furniture from room to room; general store duties including receipting, opening up, checking, storing and distributing school supplies and stocks; maintaining various registers; and stocktaking and recording/engraving of school equipment/furniture and assets.
- Support with a variety of security duties at the school (within core hours).
- Ensure compliance with workplace health and safety requirements including maintenance of a safe work environment;
- Attend to/or arrange repairs and maintenance within the school and school facilties.
- Provide basic maintenance of equipment specific to schools with students with disabilities.
- Communicate and discuss with Principal/Business Manager or nominated delegate on matters regarding periodic maintenance of facilities.
- Liaise with various internal and external personnel (e.g. tradespersons) and students on issues of lost property and damage to facilities.
- Order and/or collect general grounds care/cleaning supplies and materials.
- Oversee maintenance of school ovals through regular mowing, watering and soil maintenance (refer to WHS guidelines and procedures); lawn and garden maintenance, including regular weeding and the use of appropriate insecticides and fertilisers where necessary (refer to WHS guidelines and procedures); plant, water and care for trees, shrubs, gardens; and undertake general maintenance of grounds care equipment such as mowers, brush cutters, tractors (as per manufacturers' service manuals) and arrange regular services.
- Work in the field laboratory where there is a junior agricultural course and an agricultural assistant is not employed.
- Other duties, as outlined in the Role Description.

This is a OO2 progression position as per the Role Description. The successful applicant will be appointed to the OO2 classification with eligibility for progression to the OO3 level once specific criteria have been met. Please note salary rate shown is reflective of OO2 to OO3 classification range.

**Benefits**:
What you can expect in return
- 12.5% superannuation
- Salary packaging
- 36.25-hour week
- Parking on site

How to Apply
- Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant previous work history).
- Attach a maximum 1-page response to the attached Role description.

Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE)This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.



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