Join Our Team as an Assistant Gardener.

Are you passionate about working outdoors and making a visible difference to your community's parks and gardens? We are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated Assistant Gardener to support our Parks and Natural Environment team in keeping our beautiful city green, healthy, and thriving.

Why you'll love this role:

As an Assistant Gardener, you'll play a key part in maintaining and enhancing the City's parks, gardens, and natural spaces. Your focus will be on vegetation control, weed management, and supporting our wider gardening and bushland teams. You'll enjoy working hands-on in a dynamic outdoor environment where no two days are the same. As a key contributor, you'll:

• Apply your expertise in integrated weed control practices across diverse parks and gardens, ensuring sustainable and effective vegetation management.
• Undertake vegetation control using mechanical, manual, biological, or chemical methods, maintaining our natural spaces with precision and care.
• Respond promptly and effectively to notifications of invasive species, helping protect and preserve our local ecosystems.
• Take responsibility for ensuring that all works and tasks are undertaken in a safe manner.
• Support enrichment planting activities, contributing to the growth and beauty of our parks and natural environments.

If you're passionate about environmental stewardship and thrive in a hands-on role, we'd love to hear from you.

What you'll bring - skills, experience and certificates:

• Certificate II in Horticulture or relevant vegetation management (weed control) experience.
• Agricultural Chemical Users Permit
• Experience with the safe and competent operation of light mechanical plant, including blowers, chainsaws, brush cutters and hedge trimmers.
• Demonstrated commitment to the organisation's values

Mandatory Pre-employment checks:

• Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC) - previously known as a police check.
• Functional Capacity Assessment
• Medium rigid motor vehicle licence
• Agricultural Chemical Users Permit

We offer:

• Salary $68,245.86 per annum plus super
• Genuine work-life balance and generous leave arrangements with a nine-day fortnight (fortnightly RDO's)
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave -primary carer/2 weeks of paid parental leave
• Study assistance
• Award-winning learning and development opportunities
• Health and well-being initiatives including Fitness Passport

How to apply:

For more information about this position please view the position description. To discuss this opportunity and if you have any questions please contact Vanessa Bluett on 0479 199 871 for a confidential conversation.

Applications close: 14 May 2025 at 11.45pm

Why choose Banyule?: At Banyule City Council, we value innovation, collaboration, and professional growth. You'll have the opportunity to lead a passionate team, lead and support preparedness response and recovery of emergency management activities and contribute to the success of an organisation that values its people.

Banyule City Council is an Equal Opportunity Employer; we value diversity and inclusion, and we welcome candidates from all backgrounds. If you have a reasonable adjustment, support, or access requirement, we encourage you to inform us through your application or email [email protected].

Our Values: Our employees align their careers with Banyule because they share our values of respect, integrity, responsibility, initiative, and inclusion. They thrive in our strong learning and development culture, and the positive way we work in partnership with the community.

Diversity Statement: Our community is made up of diverse, cultures, beliefs, abilities, bodies, sexualities, ages, and genders. We are committed to access, equity, participation, and rights for everyone: principles that empower, foster harmony, and increase the well-being of an inclusive community.

To discover more about Banyule's commitment to advancing gender equality in the workplace, please find Banyule's Workplace Gender Equality Action Plan 2021-2025.

Acknowledgement of the Traditional Custodians: Banyule City Council is proud to acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people as Traditional Custodians of the land and we pay respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders, past, present and emerging, who have resided in the area and have been an integral part of the region's history.

Banyule City Council endorses the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full and accepts the invitation to walk with First Nations peoples, to a better future for us all.

Child Safe Standards Statement of Commitment: Banyule City Council is a child-safe organisation committed to the safety and well-being of children.

Council has a zero tolerance for child abuse. All allegations and safety concerns will be treated seriously and acted upon. As a child-safe organisation we are committed to providing a child-safe environment where children feel safe, are empowered, valued and protected. Council will actively listen to children, ensuring their voices are heard and considered in decisions that affect their lives.