Maintenance and Treatment Operations Officer (5 positions available)

Maintenance and Treatment Operations Officer
(5 positions available)

Role Overview

These positions will be required to rotate among various Gympie Regional Council Treatment Plants to optimise efficiency and provide resilience and support to the treatment plant teams with the maintenance and operations of Council's Water and/or Sewerage Treatment Plants, ensuring that maintenance and operations programming contribute to the highest quality of service to our customers, including compliance with Regulators.

What we are looking for

Council is seeking candidates who are self motivated and willing to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.  With the flexibility to rotate between water and waste water treatment plants across the region, we need people who are responsive and technically minded with an ability to problem-solve.  The candidate who has treatment plant maintenance and operation experience, diagnostic skills and mechanical ability, including knowledge of the maintenance and operations of pumps will do well in this role. A qualification in Water and Waste Water Operations would be highly regarded, however, unqualified highly experienced candidates will also be considered.

To be considered for this position, candidates will ideally have:

• Certificate III in Water and Waste Water Operations.
• Relevant experience in the maintenance and operations of a water and/or sewerage treatment plant.
• Demonstrated knowledge of safe chemical handling and storage.
• Demonstrated computer operation skills including reporting and field date capture.
• Knowledge of SCADA and telemetry systems.
• A knowledge of quality assurance and maintenance management systems.
• A working knowledge of the maintenance and operations requirements of water and sewerage pumping stations.

Position Description

For a full position description containing essential and desirable criteria, please click here.

Who to Contact

For information regarding the requirements of this role, please contact the Senior Manager - Water Business Unit, Stephen Jewell on 0437 824957 or email stephen.jewell@gympie.qld.gov.au

For assistance lodging your application using Council's online system, please contact Council's Advisor - Human Resources, Ros McVicar on 07-5481 0646 or email ros.mcvicar@gympie.qld.gov.au

What we offer?

• Nine day fortnight
• Access to employee health and well-being programs
• Fitness Passport: work out at over 25 local gyms for you and your family at a subsidised rate
• Access to professional development and employee education assistance
• Long service leave after seven years
• Generous superannuation scheme 13 per cent
• Access to salary sacrificing
• Employee assistance program offering free confidential counselling services for employees and their families.

Our Values

• Accountable
• Consistent
• Appreciative
• Communicative
• Respectful

For a full explanation of our values please click here. You will be assessed on your understanding of these values and how you have applied values such as these in your previous employment.

Successful applicants will be required to undertake various checks such as skills, qualifications, reference, medical and national police.

Remuneration: $1156.38 per week plus 13% superannuation.

Closing Date: Sunday 19 July 2020 at 5.00pm AEST

No late applications will be accepted.  Only applications received via Council's online application system will be considered. Unsolicited applications from agencies will not be considered.