Overseer - Ground Maintenance - Painting 5 Say

Division: Corrective Services NSW
- Location: Silverwater, NSW, AU, 2128
- Req ID: 75505

**Trade Overseer - Overseer Ground Maintenance/Paint 5D - Silverwater**

**Location**:Dawn De Loas**Correctional Centre - Holker St, Silverwater Correctional Complex

**Employment type**:Ongoing, Full Time
**Salary**:$91,700 pa + Incidental Allowance + Leave Loading + Superannuation
- We are looking for a proactive and dedicated Trade Overseer to work at our Ground Maintenance Unit at the Dawn De Loas Correctional Centre, which is located on the Silverwater Correctional Complex.

**Your Role**:

- You will be required to 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.
- Oversee the activities of the team to ensure productivity efficiency and other commercial objectives are achieved whilst ensuring all Workplace Health & Safety, Quality Management requirements and customer service needs are met.
- Join an organisation with a rich history where your trade experience is valued. Trade Overseers are trade qualified Correctional Officers with the essential role of training and supervising inmates and staff in their work-related activities within a correctional centre.
- Please click here to review the role description

**Essential Requirements**:

- Possess a tertiary or trade qualification or equivalent experience in any of the following areas: Landscape Maintenance, Landscape Construction, Horticulture, or Building and Construction trade, or other related trade.
- In the Trade (cancel Trade) Overseer role, you will need to;
- Hold a current Certificate III in Correctional Practice or have the capacity to complete within timeframe
- Hold a current NSW drivers’ licence and preparedness to drive a vehicle while performing the role.
- Be willing to work across varying trades and areas in a flexible manner to support the team.
- Be willing to work overtime to support team requirements and be willing to participate in a cyclic after hours on-call roster, where your trade skillset supports.
- Hold Minimum Certificate III Trade qualification and have proven post trade experience, specific to the role listed.
- Meet the Key Accountabilities and Focus Capabilities of the role

**About You**:

- As a member of the team, you are required to:

- Provide a positive role model and demonstrate personal values, such as honesty, ethics and integrity which support CSI, CSNSW and social values
- Positively contribute to the business unit operations through the delivery of work-related inmate training, including the implementation of Inmate Traineeships
- Provide detailed input to case management reporting through the Work Readiness Program.
- Manage resources efficiently and effectively to achieve planned outcomes
- Participate in an after-hours on-call roster, and be willing to work overtime if required to support operational needs
- Create and maintain a safe working environment for staff, contractors, inmates and visitors to comply with all related Work Health & Safety Legislation Policy and Direction

**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, Monday 28th July 2025.**

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