Join a dedicated team delivering essential services that support day-to-day Council operations. As a Fleet Plant Maintenance Technician, you’ll play a key role in ensuring our plant, equipment and vehicle fleet are safe, reliable, and ready for action.
Your work will directly contribute to the efficiency, safety and effectiveness of services delivered to the community.
- Play a key role in delivering and maintaining essential road, stormwater and flood mitigation infrastructure across Tweed Shire.
- Contribute to projects that support one of Australia's fastest-growing regional communities.
- Provide technical input into infrastructure planning, traffic management and development assessment activities.
- Work within a collaborative and customer-focused team committed to delivering high-quality services.
- Help balance infrastructure outcomes with Council's strong commitment to environmental sustainability.
- Full-time, Permanent
- a base salary ranging from $68,487 per annum with competency-based increments up to $78,468 per annum, plus 12% super
- 76 hour, 9 day fortnight
- training and development opportunities
- flexible work options for a healthy work/life balance
- generous employment conditions (we have too many to list -
- Trade-qualified mechanic with at least four years of hands-on workshop experience, including your apprenticeship
- Ability to work independently while also contributing to a small, customer-focused team
- Solid understanding of fleet operations, vehicle systems and electronic management systems
- Strong ability to interpret manuals, follow job instructions and maintain accurate records
- Commitment to safe work practices and adherence to workplace procedures
- Current Medium Rigid (MR) driver licence
- Located on the picturesque far North Coast of NSW, bordering the Gold Coast.
- The Tweed is a vibrant, diverse location offering a lifestyle near the water, in a rainforest or on a farm.
- Tweed Shire Council is committed to employment equity and diversity and encourages applications from people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds in both traditional and non-traditional roles. We provide workplace adjustments for people with disability, and access to flexible work options.
- Join an employer of choice. Professionals Australia (Local Government Engineers’ Association) has named Council the 2021 and 2025 Employer of Choice for our great employment practices within NSW local government.
This position is based in Murwillumbah, and can be directed to work from any Council work site.
Friday 11 September at 12 noon sharp (NSW time). Late applications will not be permitted.
Tweed Shire Council conducts pre-employment assessments as part of its recruitment process.
Job offers are not made until screening has been completed. Tweed Shire Council uses third-party providers to undertake:
- Pre-employment medical – some roles require a functional (physical) assessment, and all positions are subject to drug and alcohol screening (a positive test result means the recruitment process ends and your application will not be considered).
- Background screening - verifies that the information you have provided throughout the recruitment process is true and correct.
Reference Checks are undertaken by the panel. Your 2 referees should ideally be your current and most recent supervisors. Your referees are not contacted unless you’ve been interviewed and are a preferred candidate.
This position is identified as at risk of contracting vaccine-preventable/manageable diseases and as a consequence impacted employees are strongly recommended to participate in Council’s workplace vaccination program.
You must use your own email address, and not one used previously by another person that has applied for a position with council.
Once you start your online application, you cannot save and return to it later.
- Have your Resume document ready to go.
If you'd like to COPY and PASTE question fields into a separate Word document to work on over time, please find them listed below:
Selection Criteria:
- Why are you interested in working at Tweed Shire Council, and what excites you most about this particular opportunity?
- Do you hold a trade qualification in Automotive, Heavy Vehicle, Light Vehicle and/or Plant Mechanics? Please provide details.
- Outline your hands-on workshop experience, including your apprenticeship and the types of vehicles, plant or equipment you have maintained.
- Describe your experience using fleet management software and vehicle or electronic management systems, including how you’ve used them for maintenance, diagnostics and record-keeping.
- Can you provide examples of working both independently and as part of a small, customer-focused team, including managing tasks with minimal supervision?
- Describe your understanding and application of safe work procedures. How do you ensure safety and compliance in a workshop or operational environment?
- Do you hold a current Medium Rigid (MR) driver licence?
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