Road Crew Maintenance Supervisor

Are you up for the challenge?

Are you good with people and able to encourage and support teams to construct and maintain our road infrastructure assets throughout our community at Paroo Shire Council.

Located in Southwest Queensland, the Paroo Shire Council covers an area of 47,623 square kilometres with Cunnamulla being the hub of the Shire incorporating four beautiful rural towns, Cunnamulla, Yowah, Eulo and Wyandra and a growing tourism industry. Its unique name Cunnamulla, means ‘long stretch of water’, as the town sits on the edge of the picturesque Warrego River, a popular spot for boating, water sports, hot springs and fishing.

The Council has a new state of the art Civic and Community Enterprise Centre as its regional office and a growing tourism industry which offers a wide choice of attractions and activities including the $12millon mineral-rich artesian Cunnamulla Hot Springs, Cunnamulla Fella and Historical Railway.

About the Position

If you are committed and keen to make a difference to our rural Australian community, with a view to building on and improving your leadership skills in a hands-on role, then we would love to see you apply for the position of RMPC Supervisor and Road Crew Maintenance Supervisor. Your ongoing supervision and coordination of our crews will ensure that construction and maintenance work is performed to the high standard required by Council and their clients.

Our Supervisors are the core of our outdoor workforce and are responsible for effectively and efficiently managing the delivery of Council’s Road Maintenance Works Program and Capital Works Program and for coordinating staff and other resources to provide optimum delivery of services, while fostering and supporting a positive culture of teamwork, safety and continuous improvement.

About You

You will be eager to step into a role where your knowledge and leadership skills will be appreciated, by promoting and fostering pride in our teams, to focus on maintaining our local community infrastructure assets and building our strong workplace culture driving Council’s performance and service delivery.

Your communication will be clear and concise with our teams and community stakeholders and you will be able to proactively participate in identifying, recommending, developing and implementing measures through which allocated tasks and responsibilities may be carried out more effectively and efficiently.

About Your Experience

You will have, or be working towards a Certificate III in Civil Construction and / or a minimum of 5 years’ experience in civil road construction and maintenance.

It would be great if you had a Certificate IV in Civil Construction, an MR Class Licence and Level 2 Traffic Management experience however this is not essential, although you will need a current ‘C’ Class Queensland Drivers Licence and a Construction Safety Induction Card (White Card), as an essential requirement for this position.

We will offer you:

A competitive remuneration package
Time to relax with family and friends with 5 weeks annual leave and 17.5% loading
A nine (9) day fortnight to enjoy a leisurely long weekend
Uniforms so that you never need to find something to wear.

You will find a copy of the Position Description on our website (www.paroo.qld.gov.au/employment) and if you would like further information please contact Julie Kazich, interim Manager Human Resources on 07 4655 8400.

To apply please email a cover letter addressing the position responsibilities and your resume outlining your qualifications and experiences to recruitment@paroo.qld.gov.au

For more information about the region visit: https://www.paroo.qld.gov.au/visit-paroo/visitor-information-centre

Please note we can only consider your application if you are eligible to work in Australia