Are Leadership and Systems Operations your passion? Do you love to identify unique solutions to problems? We are currently seeking a Section Manager Systems Operations in our Water and Sewer directorate to lead and support a dynamic and professional team. If you have leadership and system operations skills this might be your chance to rewrite the future with us.

  • Work in a dynamic and customer focused team
  • Permanent full-time
  • Hybrid work conditions - 2 days work from home and 3 days on site
  • Flexible work arrangement options are available
  • Leaseback Vehicle/Vehicle Allowance

About the role

This role will see you provide day to day leadership to a team of professionals delivering service support to Central Coast Councils Water and Sewer infrastructure and function. Along with day to day leadership you will be managing transformational projects enabling ongoing provision of Water and Sewer services to the Central Coast community.

This position is required to provide quality customer service and create value for the community.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

  • Degree qualification in Engineering or other relevant field, combined with ongoing professional development.
  • Current Class C Driver’s Licence.
  • Proven success as a leader with the ability to grow and develop teams focused on quality outcomes, customer focus, legislative compliance and safety.
  • Extensive experience in investigation / design / construction / operation of water supply and / or sewerage systems.

Our position description provides more information for you to learn more about this role.

Other important information

  • The salary range for this position ranges from $170K inclusive of 11.5% superannuation,  plus 3.5% Civil Liability Allowance available for eligible candidates in accordance with the Local Government State Award.
  • This is a Permanent full-time role.
  • We are able to offer hybrid and flexible working conditions for this role. 
  • This role is located at Nexus Building.
  • Successful candidates may be required to have vaccinations against Hepatitis A and B and Tetanus.

A leaseback vehicle is provided in this role for official duties and private use and your choice of vehicle will be provided when one becomes available in accordance with Council’s Vehicle Policy. In the meantime, either an alternate pre-used vehicle or a vehicle allowance of $207.31 per week ($10,780.12 per annum) is temporarily applied for this position due to ongoing issues with supply for new vehicles, alternately a vehicle allowance of $207.31 per week ($10,780.12 per annum) is also an available option. 

Council may create an eligibility list from this recruitment process and may utilise this eligibility list to fill other permanent or temporary vacancies.

Extra benefits

At Central Coast Council we provide team members with a range of extras that help them balance their life when they need it. Fitness Passports give access to a range of gyms. Wellbeing leave can be accessed twice a year to tick off something that means something to you - volunteering, health check-ups. And an Employee Assistance Program that offers a range of wellbeing initiatives to help you and your immediate family.

Other extras include:

  • Long service leave after 5 years of continuous service
  • Free flu vaccination program
  • Time provided for you to do annual skin cancer screening, Breast screen and blood donations
  • Access to professional development with career development and learning programs through various platforms
  • We reward and recognise our staff with our Cheers program
  • Novated leasing partnerships. 

Central Coast Council is committed to the goals of equal opportunity employment. We aim to provide a work environment for our employees that fosters equity, diversity and respect.

Council is committed to providing safe environments that protect the physical, emotional, cultural and social wellbeing of children on the Central Coast.

What to know more?

The contact person for this role is Luke Welfare, Unit Manager Network Operations and Maintenance. You can contact them on 0400 313 780 or on email at luke.welfare@centralcoast.nsw.gov.au.

This position will close for applications at midnight on Sunday 27 October 2024.

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Location

Central Coast Council is ideally located on the northern fringe of Sydney and just an hour's drive from Newcastle, the Central Coast offers one of the best places in Australia to live and work. The Central Coast is one of the fastest growing regions in NSW, the third largest Local Government Area (LGA) in NSW and the 6th Largest LGA in Australia. 

We have a number of work locations across the region, offering different work locations for team members.

Central Coast Council is the third largest water utility (or water and sewage service) in NSW servicing 139,000 homes and businesses in a growing region.

How to apply

We have put together some additional resources to help you apply for a role at Central Coast Council.

By completing and submitting this online application you confirm that any information that you provide in this application is true and correct and acknowledge that any offer of employment may be withdrawn should the information that you have provided in support of your application be shown to be false. 

You also consent to employment screening checks being conducted where appropriate.  This may include associated checks including reference checks, Working with Children Check, Entitlement to Work in Australia, employment history and an Australian Federal Police Check, as well as substantiation of educational qualifications, industry memberships, previous Central Coast Council employment history and association with professional bodies.

You also acknowledge that you will be required to provide proof of eligibility (including photo identification) to work in Australia if selected for an interview.

To lodge your application, please follow these steps:

  1. Answer the on-line questions shown below.
  2. Attach your resume 
  3. Attach your qualifications and licences.

Once your application is successfully lodged you will receive an automated response sent to your e-mail address. If a response is not received this means that your application has not been successfully submitted and you will need to lodge another application.

If you require assistance to lodge your application please contact our Talent Acquisition team by emailing recruit@centralcoast.nsw.gov.au to discuss what reasonable adjustments you may need. If you are deaf, hearing or speech impaired, you can contact us through the National Relay Service TTY call 133 677 or Speak & Listen 1300 555 727.

Applicants who are selected for interview will be contacted by phone or e-mail. For further instructions please click here

You will have the ability to save your application as you go using the 'Save Application' button. You can start an application and return to it later via the automatic follow-up email once you have the time and required information at hand to finalise your application.  

If you don't have access to a computer or electronic device, you can lodge your application at any of Council's Library locations. Pre-book a free 1-hour computer timeslot by contacting your nearest library https://www.centralcoast.nsw.gov.au/libraries/our-branches or ask at the enquiry counter.

We will not accept unsolicited resumes or applications being presented by recruitment agencies. 

Salary

Competitive

Monthly based

Location

Central Coast Council,New South Wales,Australia

Job Overview
Job Posted:
2 months ago
Job Type
Full Time
Total Vacancies
1

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