• Starting at $67,031 + super | Income protection and journey insurance provided
• 3x Full time, permanent opportunities
• Work a 9-day fortnight | Overtime is available

About the Opportunity – Multiple Vacancies

As part of the City Operations Program, the Cleansing Team Member plays a vital role in maintaining the city's presentation through both planned maintenance and responsive services.

Your role is essential in keeping our city vibrant and welcoming. Our team ensures that Adelaide’s streets, parks, and public spaces remain clean, well-maintained, and visually appealing—creating a city we can all enjoy and take pride in.

We have multiple positions available across two dedicated teams, and we encourage you to indicate your preference in your cover letter.

Cleansing Team Member, Street Services

As a Cleansing Team Member in the Street Services team, you will primarily be looking after:

• Footpath cleaning
• Using petrol backpacks or hand blowers
• Emptying street litter bins
• Emptying catchpits

This team works between the hours of 4am – 1pm.

Early starts are essential to minimise disruptions to traffic, businesses, and residents – so if you’re an early bird, this one’s for you!

Cleansing Team Member, Essential Services

As a Cleansing Team Member in the Essential Services team, you will primarily be looking after:

• Cleaning public toilets
• Maintaining BBQs, street furniture and footpaths
• Keeping Rundle Mall looking its best
• Removing graffiti and scrubbing surfaces.

This team works between the hours of 5am – 7pm.

As this team takes care of the high-traffic areas and vital public facilities across the city, we operate across varied hours to respond quickly and efficiently, helping keep Adelaide’s public spaces clean and ready for everyone to enjoy.

No matter which team you join, you’ll be contributing to a cleaner, more enjoyable city for everyone!

What we are offering

• Income Protection and Journey Insurance provided by your enterprise agreement
• Work a 9-day fortnight!
• Opportunities for career progression
• A role where you get to work outdoors and be on your feet
• PPE and safety equipment supplied

Our ideal Waste & Cleansing Team Member

We believe that a great candidate for this role is someone that is dependable and lets their work speak for themselves. We pride ourselves in having a team that gets the job done while also having a great workplace culture.

We are looking for an individual who is after a role they can grow in (whether you are just starting out or looking for a stable career) and someone who is after an opportunity to be a part of the community they live in.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• The ability to work the shift hours provided above, as this isn’t a standard 9-5 role.
• General knowledge of the operational functions of cleaning in a workgroup is desirable.
• Experience in or willingness to learn the operations associated with the cleaning and waste management of the public realm.
• A valid driver’s licence.
• A team player but also self-motivated and happy to work on their own.

If you do not have all the experience listed above, we would still like to hear from you as skills can always be taught!

About Us

Located in the geographic heart of Kaurna Country, the City of Adelaide celebrates its cultural heritage, unique natural surrounds and structures its footprint in a way that allows it to adapt to the changing needs of the community and a dynamic global landscape. Our focus is on our community’s wellbeing and quality of life - investing in city improvements and on future planning, so we continue to design a liveable city where future generations can continue to live authentic and meaningful lives. This is an exciting opportunity to join our team and be a bigger part of our amazing city!

To find out how a role with City of Adelaide is able to impact the community, please watch this video here.

At the City of Adelaide, we thrive in an environment that is welcoming, inclusive and safe, and celebrates difference. We value and embrace our diverse perspectives and recognise the value diversity has in fuelling innovation and enabling brilliant experiences for our diverse community.

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