Permanent | Full Time | Community Use of a City Vehicle

Premium Recquatic Membership | 13% Superannuation | Rostered Day Off (Nine Day Fortnight)

PACS Band 7 ($91,667 - $100,522 p/a)
Hours of Work: 7:00am - 4:00pm Mon to Thurs and 7:00am - 3:45pm Fri (one RDO per f/n)

What’s On Offer
A rare and rewarding opportunity exists for an outstanding individual to join our City Operations Parks team at the City of Kwinana. This is a full-time position reporting to the Coordinator Parks and Natural Areas and working alongside a dynamic team of dedicated staff.

As our newest team member, you will provide leadership, supervision and guidance the Parks team and external contractors to ensure the effective and efficient delivery of the operation. The successful incumbent will be responsible for the maintenance and management of the Parks program and allocated capital works, ensuring that works are delivered within budget, timeframes and in compliance with City standards.

Who Are We?
The City of Kwinana is a thriving ocean-side community at the heart of Western Australia’s major industrial development and has the second fastest growing population within any local government area in the state. The City has seen extensive redevelopment including new residential areas, schools, retail precincts, community facilities and transport links that continue to transform Kwinana into a unique and liveable City. This is an opportunity to make some significant contributions to the City and progress your career.

What You’ll Need
To make an impact in this role, the successful candidate will have:

Qualification in Horticulture or Turf Management, or extensive relevant experience

Extensive experience in supervising operational maintenance requirements of horticultural management in public open space.

Experience in conducting projects and work programs.

Experience inducting staff in the safe operation of plant and the maintenance of parks machinery.

Experience in supervising staff and contractors exercising initiative and judgement.

Sound knowledge of Work Health and Safety legislation and Risk management.

Well developed computer literacy skills, ie; Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook.

High level interpersonal, communication, negotiation skills, and customer service skills.

What’s In It For You?
At the City of Kwinana you will enjoy a true work-life balance, with access to flexible working arrangements and a fantastic workplace culture borne from a collaborative team environment.

Other perks include, but are not limited to…

A fantastic workplace, recently ranked alongside the top 10% of the most constructive local governments in Australia and New Zealand for workplace culture!

Competitive salary plus 13% superannuation.

Nine day fortnight (RDO).

Community use of a City vehicle.

A robust employee wellness program with initiatives designed to support employees' physical and mental wellbeing.

A generous Celebration and Recognition Policy for employees.

Career development, training opportunities and study support.

Premium Kwinana Recquatic Centre membership.

This is your opportunity to take the next step in your career and make a significant contribution to the growing and changing community at the City of Kwinana.

Want To Know More?
To be considered for this position, applicants must submit a CV, a cover letter and a statement addressing the relevant Selection Criteria with specific examples in no more than two (2) pages.

For more information relating to the position please call David Boccuzzi, Manager City Operations, on 9236 4359.

Apply online: www.kwinana.wa.gov.au

Applications close: 5.00 PM, Tuesday 19 August 2025

The City of Kwinana reserves the right to commence recruitment prior to the closing date, and will not accept or consider late applications

The City of Kwinana promotes and values diversity to create a unique work force. Applicants from diverse backgrounds, such as Aboriginal people, people living with disability or people from different cultural backgrounds are encouraged to apply. The City also strives to be a customer centric organisation, with the customer at the centre of everything we do. As such, all employees play an important role in helping us to achieve this by ensuring they provide best-practice customer service. The City has the goal of zero harm for its employees, this includes providing a smoke-free environment and minimising exposure to the elements. Conditions of employment are in accordance with the City’s current Enterprise Agreement. For further information, please contact our Recruitment team on 9236 4618 or 9236 4628.

Please note: As part of the City’s recruitment process, the selected applicant will be required to undergo a pre-employment medical which includes a Drug and Alcohol screen test.