Trade Overseer

Division: Corrective Services NSW
- Location: Cessnock, NSW, AU, 2325
- Req ID: 74646

**Senior Trade Overseer -**Ground Maintenance - Centre Hygiene 5D St Heliers Correctional Centre**

**Location**:St Heliers**Correctional Centre

**Employment type**:Ongoing, Full Time
**Salary**:$101,981 pa + Incidental Allowance + Leave Loading + Superannuation

**Your role**:

- We are looking for a proactive and dedicated Senior Trade Overseer to work within our Ground Maintenance Centre Hygiene Unit at the St Heliers Correctional Centre

**What you’ll do**:

- Join an organisation with a rich history where your trade experience is valued. Senior Trade Overseers are trade qualified Correctional Officers with the essential role of using your trade skills to work with and supervise inmates and other staff to undertake programmed and reactive maintenance tasks essential to keep the correctional centre operational.
- Provide leadership and mentoring to Overseers, and supervise and develop inmates through managing, coaching, instructing, and encouraging them, as members of a team, in order that they may improve their work skills, enhance their post-release employment prospects, and contribute productively to Business Unit objectives.
- Please click here to review the role description

**Qualifications Required**:

- Current Certificate III in Correctional or capacity to complete within timeframe
- Current NSW Driver Licence and preparedness to drive a vehicle while performing the role.
- Relevant trade qualifications: Horticulture, Hygiene and Mechanical Agriculture.

**Essential Requirements**:

- Proven post trade experience
- Experience which demonstrates the ability to meet the key accountabilities and focus capabilities as detailed in the role description.
- Ability and willingness to work across trades as required.
- We focus on hiring people who share our commitment and goals of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, courage and integrity. If you meet the essential requirements and the role resonates with you, please apply, you do not need to meet every desired requirement for us to want to talk to you.

**What We Offer**
- We offer a variety of benefits, including:

- A challenging and rewarding career.
- Flexible, autonomous work environment
- Competitive pay and conditions
- Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities.
- Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.
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- Resume (maximum 3 pages and including 2 Referees - one must be a current supervisor)
- Cover letter (maximum 2 pages) outlining how you meet the key accountabilities and focus capabilities of this role as specified in the role description (please refer to the Role Description so that you can address the highlighted capabilities)
- Copies of Trade Qualifications **MUST** be attached.

**Applications close** **11:59pm, Sunday, 29 June 2025**

**Got a question?**
- Visit Recruitment adjustments on the DCJ website to learn more.

**Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit.**
- We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience, and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers, and other diversity groups.
- To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit Inclusion and diversity on the DCJ website.

**Other Information**
- A talent pool will be created for future ongoing and temporary roles and is valid for a period of up to 18 months._
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