Industries Officer

Location: Melbourne | Western Metropolitan

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Department of Justice and Community Safety

**Salary**: $77,730 - $89,386

Occupation: Prison and Corrective Services

Reference: VG/4630IOAUG23

At the Department of Justice and Community Safety, we’re looking for people who want to make a difference. People who take pride in their work. People who get things done. People who are committed to making Victoria a safer place.

We embrace diversity and strive to have a workforce that reflects the community we serve. We’re all about recruiting the best people, regardless of gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or cultural background. If you think you can do the job and would be a good fit for our department, we’d love to hear from you.

The department is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and recognises that children’s rights need to be respected, their views welcomed and valued, and their concerns taken seriously and acted upon.

For more information on working with us and our recruitment process, please visit justice.vic.gov.au/careers

We’re proud of the important work we do across Victoria. Want to be part of it?
- ** Utilise your Industry Officer expertise to provide support and advice to Corrections and Justice Services branch**:

- **Ongoing, Full-Time **opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team in the Victorian Public Service**:

- **COG2B: $77,730- $89,386 plus superannuation.**

**About You**:
The Metropolitan Remand Centre is a 954-bed maximum-security facility for unsentenced male offenders located within the West Metropolitan Region, Department of Justice.

Prison Industry Staff are responsible for industry training, work, and employment in the prison environment. The role requires, maturity sound judgement and confidence in decision making, with developed capabilities to coach, mentor and motivate prisoners while working as a member of the Vocational Services Team. The Vocational Services team includes education staff, industry staff, who work together to achieve program and service outcomes in a multidisciplinary team and rehabilitative environment.

Prison Industry officers have a major role to play in ensuring compliance with prison and prison industry procedures and particularly with Occupational Health and Safety issues in industry areas. At MRC, Industry Officers will play a significant and important role in training and assessing prisoners in relevant accredited trade skills units according to the specific work environment.

An important facet of an MRC Industry Officers role, therefore, involves liaison with internal staff and external stakeholders to make informed contributions to the development and delivery of programs and processes

**About the Role**:
Custodial duties may involve conducting searches, surveillance, observing and assessing prisoner behaviour in the trade areas and operating a variety of security and industrial equipment, collating information, and preparing reports and management of critical incidents.

At MRC Industry Prison Officers play an integral role in offender management and the implementation of offender management plans. They actively participate in teams and reference groups to provide advice through written reports to Industry Supervisors and senior management.

Some of your duties will include:

- As part of a team working to ensure the operational aims of the MRC Industries are achieved. These include possible commercial production internal targets and customer expectations, ordering and maintaining control of stock, materials, financial records and providing an industry model-workplace training environment.
- Effectively managing all work areas to ensure the safety and security of prisoners, staff and any visitors. This includes appropriate levels of surveillance and interaction within the facility, and monitoring staff and prisoners for compliance with all Occupational Health and Safety, and security procedures.
- Working as part of a team in all aspects of prison industry operations including prisoner training and assessment, case management, program and service knowledge and involvement, maintenance of professional boundaries, willingness to undertake personal skills development and training, contribution to the prison and to the prison industry production procedures.

**About You**:

- Sound knowledge of OH&S requirements relevant to the trade area, relevant legislative responsibilities related to employment supervision and training of industry workers.
- Ability to understand how emotional responses can be expressed in work situations and the impact they may have on self or others; able to assess personal strengths and weakness using feedback from other team members.
- Ability to accept changed priorities without undue discomfort. Responds quickly to changes. Comfortable working in collaboration with teams outside of own organisation.

**How to Apply**:
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