- Utilise your horticulture/maintenance trade expertise to provide support to Corrections Victoria Prison Industries.
- Ongoing, Full-time opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team in the Victorian Public Service.
- COG2B grade $85,787 - $98,651 plus superannuation.
The Department of Justice and Community Safety is seeking an Industry Officer to provide a critical role at Marngoneet Correctional Centre / Karreenga.
About the Business Unit
Marngoneet Correctional Centre / Karreenga is a medium security facility that houses a mix of sentenced and remand men and is located 6km north-west of Lara, 20km from the centre of Geelong and about 70km from Melbourne. The role of the facility is to contain men in custody safely, securely and humanely, focusing on the individual needs of the men with the aim of providing a successful transition back into the community or on their continued journey through the prison system. The facility has a strong focus on achieving positive outcomes and provides a range of engaged services. Our highly skilled workforce provides supervision and case management and are dedicated to enhancing opportunities to strengthen prisoner pathways.
The Vocational Services Team consists of the three key portfolios, education, programs, and industries. The role of the team is to prepare prisoners for release and to enhance post-release employment opportunities through prisoner employment, integrated on-the-job training, targeted educational opportunities, and personal development programs and activities.
About the Role
Industry Officers have a major role to play in ensuring compliance with broader prison procedures as well as specific prison industry procedures, in particular Occupational Health and Safety issues in industry areas. Industry Officers are responsible for the management and delivery of specific functions within a prisoner industry or service industry under the guidance of a Prison Industry Supervisor. The role requires leadership, maturity, sound judgment, and confidence in decision-making, with developed capabilities to coach, mentor, and motivate prisoners, along with highly developed communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.
At Marngoneet Correctional Centre / Karreenga, Senior Industry Officers play a significant and important role in training and assessing prisoners in relevant accredited trade skill units according to the specific work environment. Senior Industry Officers will enter data into Oracle as part of monitoring, recording, and managing daily production processes. Industry staff are also responsible for strict adherence to food safety standards in food production areas.
The Industry Officer is part a multi-disciplinary team and is responsible for training and supervising prisoners in the prisons commercial industries and service areas. The overall objective is to provide training and employment opportunities to prisoners and to meet the commercial and service industry production goals and service requirements.
Custodial duties may include conducting searches, surveillance, observing and assessing prisoner behaviour in the trade areas, and operating a variety of security and industrial equipment, collating information, and preparing reports and management of critical incidents.
The Industry Officer reports to the Industry Supervisor and through to the Industry Manager for production processes and requirements.
Some of your duties will include:
- Typically supervises a team working to ensure the operational aims of the Marngoneet Correctional Centre / Karreenga Industries are achieved. These include commercial production targets and customer expectations, ordering and maintaining control of stock, materials, financial records and providing an industry model-workplace training environment.
- Effectively manage all work areas to ensure the safety and security of prisoners, staff and any visitors. This includes appropriate levels of surveillance and interaction within the facility, and monitoring staff and prisoners for compliance with all Occupational Health and Safety, and security procedures.
- Work as part of a team in all aspects of prison industry operations including prisoner training and assessment, case management, program and service knowledge and involvement, maintenance of professional boundaries and contribution to prison and prison industry production procedures.
To learn more about this role before applying, please read the attached position description.
About you
To be successful in this role, you will have:
- Ability to work as part of a team to monitor and achieve targets in a complex trade or industrial environment, including management of financial budgets, materials and suppliers' records and accounts, while maintaining work production schedules.
- Demonstrated understanding of processes and procedures in accordance with the Prison Industries practices.
Qualifications/requirements
- Qualifications and/or demonstrated experience in a Trade area related to the needs of the Horticulture/Maintenance area.
How to Apply
Please click the Apply button on this advertisement. Applications should include a resume and covering letter. Attachments can be uploaded in .doc, .docx, .pdf, .txt or .rtf formats.
The successful candidate will be required to undergo pre-employment checks which may include a Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC) and misconduct screening.
If you require adjustments to the recruitment and selection process, or require an alternative format to any of the application material, please don't hesitate to get in touch with the contact person listed on this ad.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
CHILD SAFE STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT:
The Department of Justice and Community Safety is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and young people. We seek to prevent harm of any kind impacting children and young people and have zero tolerance for racism, child abuse and inequality. Children and young people's rights, relationships, identity, and culture must be recognised and respected, their voices heard, and their concerns acted upon. We aim to foster a culturally safe, child safe and child friendly environment for all children and young people we have contact with, deliver services to, or are impacted by our work.
