The City of Melville is seeking a motivated and reliable Parks Maintainer to join our Parks Maintenance team. This role is responsible for maintaining and enhancing public open spaces, ensuring high-quality presentation, safety, and customer satisfaction across our community.
Location: City of Melville Operations Centre
Salary: $77,579.93 to $80,321.08 pro-rata p.a. (effective 01st July 2026) + 12% Super
Employment Type: Permanent, Full Time
About the Role:
You will carry out horticultural maintenance across parks and streetscapes, operate equipment safely, and support daily operations. The role includes identifying maintenance needs, following safety and traffic management practices, delivering quality customer service, and contributing to continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform horticultural and turf maintenance across parks and streetscapes
- Safely operate and conduct minor maintenance on horticultural plant and equipment
- Complete pre-start vehicle and equipment checks
- Identify and report maintenance needs, including reticulation systems
- Assist with park and streetscape maintenance scheduling and daily reporting
- Implement Basic Traffic Management practices where required
- Conduct Take 5’s and contribute to Job Hazard Analysis processes
- Support the development and review of procedures and work instructions
- Deliver high standards of customer service in line with organisational values
- Promote and adhere to Safety, Health, Environment & Quality (SHEQ) policies
- Contribute to Quality Assurance and Continuous Improvement initiatives
- Undertake additional duties within the scope of the role as required.
Essential Requirements:
- Current ‘C’ Class Driver’s Licence
- Certificate II in Horticulture/Turf (or equivalent) or willingness to obtain
- Construction White Card
- Skills and knowledge in the use of a wide range of horticultural equipment and machinery
- Basic oral and written literacy and numeracy skills
- Working knowledge of Work Health and Safety
- Ability to work both independently and within a team
Desirable Experience:
- Current MR class WA driver's licence
- Chemicals Safely in the Workplace Certificate
- Senior First Aid Certificate
How to Apply
Apply online via the Apply button and provide a comprehensive resume and cover letter (no more than 2 pages) demonstrating:
- Outline your experience in performing park and streetscape horticulture, operating plant equipment, and identifying maintenance or reticulation needs.
- Detail your familiarity with pre-start checks, Take 5/ Job Hazard Analysis processes, customer service, and contributing to SHEQ policies
Closing Date: Wednesday, 01 July 2026, 11.59PM AWST.
For further information about this position, please contact: Shane Tonkin, Supervisor – Reserves on 08 9364 0702.
If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, we strongly advise you apply as soon as possible as the City reserves the right to close this advertisement before the closing date.
Why The City of Melville?
We are a welcoming and diverse community that enjoys a blend of retail and business precincts and an abundance of open spaces in a unique, natural landscape, along the shores of the beautiful Swan and Canning Rivers.
We are proud to be recognised as an Inclusive Employer 2024-2025 – a prestigious award that benchmarks workplace inclusion across various diversity areas. This recognition is the only one of its kind in Australia and highlights our commitment to fostering a workplace where diversity is celebrated, and inclusion thrives. In everything we do, we focus on our EPIC values of Excellence, Participation, Integrity and Caring and we aim to achieve an inclusive, vibrant, and sustainable future.
Why Belong?
Elevate your work experience with the City of Melville’s benefits!
- Join an award-winning, Inclusive Employer recognised for diversity, accessibility and welcoming workplaces
- Enjoy annual salary increases of 4%, effective each year from 1 July 2025 to 1 July 2027
- Enjoy flexible working arrangements that help balance work and life
- Stay active with a free LeisureFit membership
- Save time and money with free on-site parking
- Celebrate your special day with Birthday Leave – no work on your big day!
- Access paid parental leave to support your family
- Take more time to recharge with 2 extra days of annual leave plus the option to purchase additional leave (up to 10 weeks off per year)
- Benefit from a generous superannuation co-contribution of up to 15.5%
- Maximise your pay with salary packaging and novated leasing options
- Grow your career with structured professional development and study assistance programs
- Look after your wellbeing with wellness initiatives and Employee Assistance Programs
- Connect outside of work with a vibrant social club
The City of Melville celebrates diversity, inclusion, and belonging. We welcome and strongly encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including but not limited to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from culturally diverse backgrounds, and people living with disabilities.
Please note that the City does not offer visa sponsorship. While permanent positions are generally only open to Australian citizens or permanent residents, permanent positions may occasionally be filled on a fixed-term basis. In such cases and for fixed-term or casual roles, applicants with temporary unrestricted work rights in Australia (and residing in Perth) may be considered, provided they have unrestricted work rights for the duration of the appointment.
All candidates applying for a position where the use of ‘plant and machinery’ or driving a vehicle is an inherent requirement of the role and other ‘high risk’ facilities where public safety is at risk, will be required to pass a drug and alcohol test as part of a pre-employment medical.
We appreciate the interest from Recruitment Agencies in collaborating with us, however, at this time, the City of Melville is managing the recruitment process for this role. Please refrain from submitting candidate profiles to our team. Rest assured, should the need for external assistance arise in the future, we will not hesitate to reach out to recruitment agencies.
