Ranger

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Closing date: 9/11/2025 11:59 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time

Location: Civic Centre - 243 Baylis Street, Wagga Wagga NSW Wiradjuri Country

Department: Community Services - Environment and Regulatory Services

Employment type: Permanent Full-time

Work Arrangement: On-site

Are you passionate about community safety, animal welfare, and protecting our local environment? The City of Wagga Wagga is seeking a proactive and committed Ranger to join our Regulatory Services Team.

We are seeking an energetic and self-motivated individual for the position of Ranger within the City Compliance & Regulatory Services Division of Wagga Wagga City Council. The position reports directly to the Regulatory Services Coordinator and is responsible for delivering quality customer service, outstanding animal care and handling, parking monitoring and other enforcement activities to effectively work as part of the Regulatory Services Team. Participation in an on-call and out-of-hours roster is applicable.

• Permanent, full-time position available.
• Remuneration package of $2,582.98 gross per fortnight with the opportunity to progress to $3,099.58 gross per fortnight + superannuation.
• Access to Council's Flexible Working Arrangements.
• Ongoing training and development opportunities.
• Generous leave entitlements.

Your new role:

A day in the life of a council ranger is anything but ordinary.

Daily tasks can include dealing with roaming dogs, safely directing livestock off roads, investigating dog attacks matters, addressing overgrown properties, providing advice to excessive barking dog matters, parking enforcement, educating the community on responsible pet ownership and more. A dedication to the community and safety underpins all these diverse duties.

Key aspects and responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:

• Action customer service requests in accordance with approved service levels. This includes representing Council in a professional, courteous, and consistent manner at all times.
• Assist in Environmental, Regulatory and Companion Animal education.
• Undertake inspections and investigations to detect and prosecute legislative breaches and hazards, including regulatory monitoring and enforcement of Parking, Street Activities, Dumped Rubbish, Impounding, Bushfire Hazards, and Companion Animal legislation, and issue penalties or notices where appropriate.
• Participate in the out-of-hours on-call roster for Stock on Roads and Dangerous Dogs.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory responsibilities under various Acts, Regulations, Codes and Standards.
• Prepare Statements and other documentation as part of a Brief of Evidence when prosecuting breaches of Parking, Companion Animal, Environmental and Local Government legislation.
• Appear in Court as a Prosecution witness as required.
• In consultation with your Supervisor/Manager advise and recommend legal action resulting from legislative breaches, prepare evidence and affidavits for legal forums, briefing legal representatives and court appearance.

What you will need to succeed:

The successful candidates will have drive and enthusiasm, highly developed communication and interpersonal skills including solid conflict resolution and high resilience along with qualifications and/or experience that are relevant to this role. Animal handling experience, or regulatory experience would be an advantage.

In accordance with Work Health and Safety legislation, the successful applicant is required to be vaccinated for Q-Fever and will be asked to provide evidence of this.

What is next?

Applications close Sunday, 9 November 2025 at 11.59pm AEDST.

If you are interested in this role and would like more information, please contact Benjamin Clark, Regulatory Services Coordinator on

Selection processes will be undertaken in three stages including preliminary phone interviews; pre-employment checks in line with the requirements of the position; and face-to-face panel interviews. Preliminary phones interviews for selected candidates, will be held in the week commencing Monday, 17 October 2025.

Selected candidates for this position will be asked to consent to a police check. Please note that people with a criminal record are not discouraged from applying for the position. Each application will be considered on its merit.

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Working with Wagga Wagga City Council - Why work in Wagga?

Council is an inclusive employer. We strive to reflect the community in which we work, as a result we welcome and encourage applications from skilled people from all walks of life. This includes women, men, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with a disability, veterans, sexually and gender diverse people, people with lived experience and people of all ages.