Compliance Officer - Pools
Tweed Shire Council
Posted 10 days ago
In this role, you will be responsible for conducting pool fencing inspections to ensure they comply with relevant legislation. You will also be tasked with issuing Swimming Pool Compliance Certificates, Notices and Orders. This mobile role involves going to homeowners' premises for inspections, making effective communication essential. Additionally, you should prioritise safety, be comfortable working independently, and meet performance targets with minimal supervision.
About the role:
- Supports the implementation of our Swimming Pool Fencing Compliance Strategy
- Promotes, educates and assesses pools to ensure compliance, and educate the community on pool safety
- Interprets legislation and problem solves.
What's on offer:
- a base salary ranging from $65,853 per annum with competency-based increments up to $75,449 per annum, plus 12% super
- 70 hour, 9 day fortnight
- training and development opportunities
- flexible work options for a healthy work/life balance
- generous employment conditions (we have too many to list - click here for more).
We are seeking:
- Demonstrated ability to complete the Swimming Pool Assessments, Compliance and Safety Awareness Course, or equivalent within 3 months of appointment dependent on course availability.
- Demonstrated ability to understand, and the capacity to apply, legislation, policy and procedures.
- Desirable: be registered as a Swimming Pool Inspector with the NSW Department of Fair Trading.
About us:
- Located on the picturesque far North Coast of NSW, bordering the Gold Coast.
- The Tweed is a vibrant, diverse location offering a lifestyle near the water, in a rainforest or on a farm.
- Tweed Shire Council is committed to employment equity and diversity and encourages applications from people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds in both traditional and non-traditional roles. We provide workplace adjustments for people with disability, and access to flexible work options.
- Join an employer of choice. Professionals Australia (Local Government Engineers’ Association) has named Council the 2021 Employer of Choice for our great employment practices within NSW local government.
Where it's located:
This position is based in Murwillumbah, and can be directed to work from any Council work site.
Position closes:
Friday 8 August 2025 at 12 noon sharp (NSW time). Late applications will not be permitted.
SK97188A
About Tweed Shire Council
Tweed Shire Council is the largest council on the north coast of New South Wales, Australia. Covering an area of 1300 square kilometres, the Tweed adjoins the local government areas of Byron, Lismore, Kyogle, Scenic Rim and Gold Coast, with the NSW–Queensland border to its north where it divides the twin towns of Tweed Heads and Coolangatta.
Council is the largest employer in the Tweed with a workforce of more than 750 employees across a wide range of professions. Through a budget of about $256 million, Council delivers more than 50 services to 41,500 ratepayers and almost 100,000 residents who call the Tweed home.
In late 2021, Council was named Employer of Choice by Professionals Australia (Local Government Engineers’ Association) for its great employment practices within NSW local government.
Professionals Australia recognises what workers throughout the region already know – people choose to work at Tweed Shire Council when presented with other employment opportunities due to its:
employment terms
great workplace culture
amazing location.
Aboriginal Acknowledgement – Tweed Shire Council wishes to recognise the generations of the local Aboriginal people of the Bundjalung Nation who have lived in and derived their physical and spiritual needs from the forests, rivers, lakes and streams of this beautiful valley over many thousands of years as the traditional custodians of these lands.
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