Technical Officer

We're looking for a dedicated Technical Officer in our Parks and Reserves section to help maintain and improve our community's parks, gardens, and reserves. This is your opportunity to make an impact.

• Permanent full time role with a 9 day fortnight
• Great opportunity for a highly motivated person with a hands-on attitude
• Collaborate with stakeholders on projects, ensuring efficient service delivery and asset management.

About The Role
The role of Technical Officer Open Space and Recreation is responsible for resolving customer service issues and providing technical support to maintain service delivery of Council's Sport Facilities, Parks and Reserves and Roadside Vegetation assets.

Join our dynamic team and provide essential technical support to Unit's Team Leaders, ensuring positive customer engagement through various communication methods. You'll inspect, investigate, and report on Open Space and Recreation issues, collaborate on asset maintenance projects, and manage contractors. If you thrive in a role that involves coordinating multiple projects and preparing environmental assessments, this is the perfect opportunity for you

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

Key Activities Of This Role Include

• Provides technical support to the Unit's Team Leaders in the resolution of often ill-defined service issues for functional areas as allocated
• Ensures positive customer engagement responding to customers in a timely manner via verbal or written communication. This may include but not limited to face-to-face contact, telephone conversations, preparation of letters and emails
• Inspects, investigates, reports, corresponds, programmes and estimates costs in relation to Open Space and Recreation issues

To Be Successful In This Role, You Will Have

• Certificate III qualification in Horticultural discipline
• Valid Construction General Induction card- NSW WorkCover or equivalent
• Current C Class Drivers Licence
• AQF3 Chemical Accreditation.

Our provides more information for you to learn more about this role.

Other Important Information

• The commencing salary for this position is up to $83.2k per annum. Central Coast Council also provides progression opportunities for employees to progress up to the maximum salary of $96.4k per annum on completion of assessment of skills and performance plus 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 Charmhaven Depot.

Council may create an eligibility list from this recruitment process and may utilise this eligibility list to fill other permanent or temporary vacancies.

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
Rick Gatt, Section Manager Parks and Reserves
. You can contact Rick on

This position will close for applications at
midnight on Sunday, 12 October 2025.
To download our Privacy Statement click

Location
Central Coast Council is ideally located on the northern fringe of Sydney and just an hour's drive from Newcastle, the Central Coast offers one of the best places in Australia to live and work. The Central Coast is one of the fastest growing regions in NSW, the third largest Local Government Area (LGA) in NSW and the 6th Largest LGA in Australia.

How To Apply
We have put together some additional resources to help you

By completing and submitting this online application you confirm that any information that you provide in this application is true and correct and acknowledge that any offer of employment may be withdrawn should the information that you have provided in support of your application be shown to be false.

You also consent to employment screening checks being conducted where appropriate. This may include associated checks including reference checks, Working with Children Check, Entitlement to Work in Australia, employment history and an Australian Federal Police Check, as well as substantiation of educational qualifications, industry memberships, previous Central Coast Council employment history and association with professional bodies.

You also acknowledge that you will be required to provide proof of eligibility (including photo identification) to work in Australia if selected for an interview.

To Lodge Your Application, Please Follow These Steps

• Answer the on-line questions shown below.
• Attach your resume
• Attach your qualifications and licences.

Once your application is successfully lodged you will receive an automated response sent to your e-mail address. If a response is not received this means that your application has not been successfully submitted and you will need to lodge another application.

If you require assistance to lodge your application please contact our Talent Acquisition team by emailing
If you are deaf, hearing or speech impaired, you can contact us through the National Relay Service TTY call or Speak & Listen
Applicants who are selected for interview will be contacted by phone or e-mail.
For further instructions please click
You will have the ability to save your application as you go using the 'Save Application' button. You can start an application and return to it later via the automatic follow-up email once you have the time and required information at hand to finalise your application.

If you don't have access to a computer or electronic device, you can lodge your application at any of Council's Library locations. Pre-book a free 1-hour computer timeslot by contacting your nearest library

We will not accept unsolicited resumes or applications being presented by recruitment agencies.
Apply Now