Landscape and Grounds Maintenance Officer Job posted: 18/10/2024 Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan Job type: Full time Organisation: Department of Justice and Community Safety Occupation: Land Management Reference: DJCS/YJ0745 Closes: 03/11/2024 Classification: VPSG3 Salary Range: $76,817 - $93,275 Work location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan At the Department of Justice and Community Safety, we're looking for people who want to make a difference.
We embrace diversity and strive to have a workforce that reflects the community we serve.
If you think you can do the job and would be a good fit for our department, we'd love to hear from you.
An exciting ongoing opportunity exists for a Landscape and Grounds Maintenance Officer in the Youth Justice Custodial Services, Infrastructure Projects and Security Unit.
About us The Department of Justice and Community Safety is responsible for the statutory supervision of young people in the criminal justice system.
The Landscape and Grounds Maintenance Officer will maintain all amenity areas of the Parkville Youth Justice Precinct, which include mowing, pruning, spraying, propagation, maintenance of ponds, orchard, vegetable gardens, and nursery.
You will develop new gardens and upgrade existing gardens.
What does the Landscape and Grounds Maintenance Officer do? Operate as part of a team to provide high-level services aimed at maintaining grounds at the precinct by organising, delivering, and sustaining various periodic and general grounds maintenance works.
Maintain grounds at the Precinct by delivering tasks like mowing, slashing, pruning, mulching, weeding, spraying, watering, planting, etc.
Safely operate vehicles or powered equipment, such as ride-on mowers, tractors, twin-axle vehicles, chainsaws, electric clippers, sod cutters, pruning saws, forklifts, and elevated work platforms (EWP) as per procedures and checklists.
As our ideal candidate, you will have: Proven experience in landscape and grounds maintenance with the ability to perform varied horticulture periodic, general, and reactive maintenance tasks.
Experience in operation of machinery, tools, and equipment used for grounds maintenance.
Experience with Forklift and EWP (Elevated Work Platforms) or willingness to obtain relevant forklift and boom type elevated platform licenses is desirable.
How to apply Please click the Apply button on this advertisement.
Applications should include a resume and covering letter.
Attachments can be uploaded in.doc,.docx,.pdf,.txt or.rtf formats.
The successful candidate will be required to undergo pre-employment checks which may include national police checks and misconduct screening.
If this sounds like a compelling job that you believe your skills would be a great match for, please APPLY NOW.
Applications close 11:59pm, Sunday 3 November 2024.
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