Lead and inspire a team to enhance the beauty of Lake Macquarie's open spaces!Outdoor Leadership Opportunity: Be at the forefront of vegetation maintenance in the stunning natural surroundings of Lake Macquarie.Flexible Work Options: Enjoy greater flexibility with a nine-day fortnight and a four-day workweek trial, ensuring a healthy work/life integration.Community Impact: Make a meaningful difference by maintaining and beautifying the green spaces that our community enjoys! LET'S EXPLORE THE JOB Our City Works department is offering an exciting leadership opportunity for a Vegetation Maintenance Supervisor to join our City Presentation team.In this hands-on role, you will lead, supervise, and work alongside a multi-skilled team of operational staff responsible for the day-to-day maintenance of vegetated assets across Lake Macquarie.As a leader, you'll provide guidance, mentorship, and skill development within your team, ensuring high-quality maintenance and enhancement of our city's open spaces.You will be joining a dedicated and committed team passionate about creating beautiful, well-maintained areas for the community to enjoy.Your key focus areas are: Lead and supervise a team in the delivery of vegetation maintenance activities.This includes prioritising, arranging and carrying out daily work activities, responding to service requests, ordering materials and consumables and maintaining appropriate work records.Scheduling, monitoring and carrying out a variety of daily tasks associated with vegetation maintenance, including the operation and minor maintenance of plant and equipment, ordering materials and consumables, ordering and working with traffic control staff, completing works associated with service requests and other daily vegetation maintenance activities.Provide leadership and guidance to team members through role modelling appropriate behaviours and standards, and carrying out on the job training.Support the Coordinator in the efficient operation of the team.This includes ensuring appropriate standards are adhered to, assisting in staff management, staff performance discussions, and reviews, reviewing and authorising time sheets, and providing operational input into leave requests.Ensure a high level of customer service in all dealings with internal and external customers and stakeholders. You are a dynamic, solution-focused leader with experience in the delivery and scheduling of vegetation maintenance.As a self-motivated team player, you thrive in hands-on work and lead by example, demonstrating a strong commitment to safety and best practices.Your leadership skills shine through your ability to organise, motivate, and engage your team, guiding them to deliver outstanding results.With a "can-do" attitude, you possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills, which enable you to build strong, collaborative relationships within your team and across departments.You are passionate about making a positive impact on the community, and your ability to bring people along on the journey will be key to ensuring the successful enhancement of our open spaces.You will have: Minimum certificate III in a relevant trade such as Horticulture, Parks and Gardens, Natural Resource Management, Turf Management or the like and/or commensurate relevant experience.Experience in the use of small plant and other machinery relevant to the role such as ride on mowers, whipper snippers, chain saws, sprayers and truck and trailers.Proven leadership, supervisory, interpersonal and communication skills.Demonstrated commitment to delivering excellent frontline customer service through well-developed interpersonal and communication skills.Demonstrated ability to work unsupervised, and lead and supervise a team including apprentices and contractors to carry out works to meet the required time frames and standards.Demonstrated oral, numeracy, literacy and computer skills, including the use of field technology such as tablets as required. LET'S REVEAL THE PERKS Competitive salary from $72,333 to $84,062 a year plus industry-leading 12% superannuation Additional increment and travel allowances apply.Enterprise Agreement pay increases apply.Commencing salary set in line with skills and experience with annual reviews available to support movement through the salary range.38 hour working week with a nine-day fortnight.Weekly pay.We value your wellbeing and provide generous discounted gym memberships through our corporate fitness program starting from $8 week, connect with colleagues through our social club, wellbeing initiatives, and confidential support via our employee assistance program (EAP), annual flu vaccination program.Uniform, PPE and technology supplied.Supportive, empowering, collaborative, and innovative work environment.Enjoy working in the stunning surroundings across beautiful Lake Macquarie. CHOOSE THE LAKE MAC WAY We know it is our people that will shape the future of our city.That's why we're passionate about providing a workplace that empowers our staff to be creative, innovative, and bold.When you join the team at Lake Macquarie City Council, you're joining a group of people with a commitment to make our city even better.We're proud of our city and the work we do, and we know you will be too.We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workforce.We believe that a diverse network of employees, which truly reflects the people it serves and represents, is best equipped to understand, and meet the needs of our community.We welcome and encourage applications from all ages and genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from culturally diverse backgrounds, the LGBTIQ+ community, refugees, and people with disability.We understand the skills and attributes veterans can bring to our Council.LET'S START If this job sounds like you, we would love to hear from you!Send in your application by midnight, Sunday 3 November 2024 .For a confidential discussion related to the duties of the role, please contact Jason Farrell, Vegetation Maintenance Coordinator, 02 4921 0121 or via email If you would like assistance when submitting your application or have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Georgina Green, Talent Acquisition Advisor, on 02 4921 0495 or via email We are a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.To view the Capability Framework – Role Profile relevant to this role, please click here .To complete your online application, you will be asked to upload a copy of your resume and provide responses to questions which are based on the criteria listed in the Position Statement.Please note that as part of Lake Macquarie City Council's recruitment process, prior to an offer of employment being made, recommended candidates may be subject to a medical assessment which may include alcohol and other drugs testing. 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