Senior Team Leader Technical

• Permanent Full Time opportunity available (9 day fortnight)
• Relevant qualifications in Planning, scheduling and/or extensive experience
• Certificate III in Arboriculture or Horticulture or equivalent qualifications or with five years horticulture/arboriculture supervisor experience.
• LGO 7 ($103,497 - $109,840 per annum + superannuation) based on skills, qualifications and experience

Why Choose Us

Townsville City Council is the largest local government authority in Northern Australia. We are committed to creating value by growing Townsville through driving economic diversity and generating an enriching lifestyle.

Our organisation provides and maintains close to $9 billion worth of community assets including water and wastewater network and treatment plants, bridges, drainage, roads, waste management, community facilities, sporting venues and more.

We contribute to an active lifestyle for our residents and visitors through events, providing recreational facilities, protecting the natural environment and heritage, while creating a mentally and physically healthy city.

We are driving economic diversity and cultivating an enriching lifestyle, growing a city for this and future generations by building a vibrant, sustainable and innovative city.

Council's vision is for Townsville to be a connected, lifestyle driven and innovation focused city while continuing to deliver service excellence and to be led by our community to create an exciting today and future.

Our Vision: A globally connected community driven by lifestyle and nature.

Our Purpose: Grow Townsville

Our Values: Safety, Excellence, Respect, Value, Enjoyment

About the Role

This role is responsible for ensuring that all Parks maintenance requirements are well identified across a range of external customers and stakeholders and are then balanced against the resource requirements, planned works and deliverables within the delivery team.

This position is a senior role responsible for continuity of maintenance service across the city. The role will act as a representative of the community stakeholder providing a balanced and informed position of service requirements and influence program schedules and therefore resource allocation to the many service activities provided by Construction Maintenance and Operations Parks delivery team.

This role is to also inform and influence Assets Team on where to spend capital budget to meet need identified through engagement with community and delivery of service and operational activities.

About you

Our ideal candidate will have:

• Relevant qualifications in Planning, scheduling and/or extensive experience, as it relates to the role.
• Certificate III in Arboriculture or Horticulture or equivalent qualifications or with five years horticulture and arboriculture supervisor experience.
• High level experience in the provision of advice on works planning prioritisation, management procedures, processes, guidelines and business rules, as it applies to Infrastructure maintenance.
• Proven ability to advise and influence other to achieve goals on maintenance services department.
• Experience in delivery of service advice in a large-scale maintenance delivery environment.
• Excellent level of knowledge in services provided including methods and alternatives.
• Proven ability to increase business unit capability within the knowledge and application of works planning principles to assist in the delivery of identified services and programs of work.
• Good working knowledge of works planning, scheduling and delivery to agreed levels of service in a large maintenance delivery organisation.

How to Apply

Your application can be submitted through the 'Apply' button. Please include a cover letter (maximum 2 pages), outlining how your skills, qualifications and experience would allow you to achieve success in this role. We also will require your resume and attached copies of any licences and qualifications as per the key requirements of the role.

For further information review the Position Description.

Closing Date: 11.45pm, Thursday 5 June 2025

What We Offer

• 17.5% annual leave loading
• Up to 5 weeks annual leave
• Up to 3 weeks Personal/Carers Leave
• 14 weeks paid Parental Leave
• Domestic and Family Violence Leave
• Natural Disaster Leave
• Up to *13.5% Superannuation employer contribution for contributing members
• Salary Sacrifice opportunities
• Learning and Development opportunities
• Fitness Passport program offering discounted membership to selected gym, pool, and yoga facilities
• Employee Loyalty Program offering discounts at selected local businesses
• Employee Assistance Program

* The Council contribution to employees' superannuation for contributing employees shall be 13.5% of the employees' ordinary time earnings subject to the employee contributing a minimum of 6% of their ordinary time earnings.

We are committed to creating a safe and inclusive workplace where diverse styles, backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, encouraged, and respected. People from diverse backgrounds (including but not limited to, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, people with diverse gender identities and sexualities, people from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people with disability, and veterans) are encouraged to apply

All successful candidates are required to undergo drug and alcohol testing as part of the recruitment process. Please be aware Townsville City Council has a 'zero tolerance' policy to drugs and alcohol in the workplace.

If you need any adjustments to be made to the recruitment process or if you would like to discuss any accessibility requirements, please contact ************** or phone *** for a confidential discussion.

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