Trades Assistant

1 week ago

Erina, New South Wales, Australia Central Coast Council Full time $61,000 - $70,700 per year

Join Central Coast Council as a Trades Assistant, where you'll play a crucial role in maintaining, improving, and constructing our sporting facilities, parks, and reserves, ensuring they remain vibrant and accessible for everyone

  • Calling all grounds, parks, reserves, roadsides or sports field maintenance specialists
  • Opportunities to add value across Central Coast community landscapes and recreational spaces
  • Work/Life Balance - 9 day fortnight
  • Permanent full time role available

About the role

The role of Trades Assistant is a diverse outdoor role which provides high quality maintenance support for local parks, sports fields or roadside landscapes across the Central Coast. Your day could include anything from vegetation management at parks, roadsides & sports grounds, improvements and repairs to infrastructure such as play equipment and a range of other activities to keep our public spaces safe and clean.

Council will also be creating an eligibility list from this recruitment process and may utilise this eligibility list to fill other permanent Trades Assistant vacancies.

This position is required to provide quality customer service and create value for the community.

Key activities of this role include:

  • Working with your crew on a range of vegetation management activities within Council's sporting facilities, roadsides, parks or reserves
  • Undertaking a range of facility maintenance, improvement works or new construction projects as required
  • Ensuring that ovals, playing fields, parks and reserves are left in a clean and safe state on a daily basis to minimise risk of harm to the public
  • Safe operation and maintenance of machines, vehicles, tools and equipment required to undertake the role.

About you:

  • You have extensive relevant experience in general horticulture or landscaping, parks maintenance, or sports facilities and/or similar community recreation facilities
  • You enjoy adding value to your team by bringing an innovative perspective and new ideas
  • Safety is a key focus for you at work
  • You have genuine enthusiasm for delivering quality services to the local community
  • You hold a Class C Drivers Licence
  • You hold a General Construction Induction Card (White Card) or you are willing to obtain prior to any offer of employment
  • Traffic control qualifications would be highly regarded
  • Having a work/life balance is important to you.

To view our position description which provides more information for you to learn more about this role please click the Apply button.

Other important information

  • The commencing salary for this position is up to $61k per annum. Central Coast Council also provides progression opportunities for employees to progress up to the maximum salary of $70.7k per annum on completion of assessment of skills and performance 12% superannuation
  • We have a permanent full time role available
  • This role will be able to access a 9 day fortnight
  • This role is located at the Erina Depot, however will work across all Central Coast Council depots.

Extra benefits

At Central Coast Council we provide team members with a range of extras that help them balance their life when they need it. Fitness Passports give access to a range of gyms. Wellbeing leave can be accessed twice a year to tick off something that means something to you - volunteering, health check-ups. And an Employee Assistance Program that offers a range of wellbeing initiatives to help you and your immediate family.

Other extras include:

  • Long service leave after 5 years of continuous service
  • Free flu vaccination program
  • Time provided for you to do annual skin cancer screening, Breast screen and blood donations
  • Access to professional development with career development and learning programs through various platforms
  • We reward and recognise our staff with our Cheers program
  • Novated leasing partnerships.

Central Coast Council is committed to the goals of equal opportunity employment. We aim to provide a work environment for our employees that fosters equity, diversity and respect.

Council is committed to providing safe environments that protect the physical, emotional, cultural and social wellbeing of children on the Central Coast.

Want to know more?

The contact person for this role is Brendan Lynch, Team Leader Roadside Vegetation Management. You can contact Brendan on

This position will close for applications at midnight on Sunday, 19 October 2025.

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