Join our team and play a hands‑on role in maintaining, repairing and replacing metal fabrication components that support a wide range of Council assets.
This role contributes to the safe, reliable and efficient operation of essential infrastructure, delivering valued services to asset owners and the community.
- Use your fabrication and welding expertise to maintain and repair a diverse range of Council assets, from water infrastructure to public facilities and flood control structures.
- Apply your technical skills to manufacture, modify and install engineering solutions that keep essential community services operating efficiently.
- Interpret complex engineering drawings and contribute practical solutions to support high-quality infrastructure outcomes.
- Work across a variety of projects and asset types within a collaborative team that values safety, innovation and continuous improvement.
- Play a vital role in supporting a growing community while helping deliver sustainable and reliable infrastructure across Tweed Shire.
- 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 Metal Fabricator/Boilermaker (Certificate III or equivalent) with hands‑on post‑apprenticeship experience in a workshop environment.
- Strong technical capability in fitting, machining and welding steel, aluminium and stainless steel using current welding technologies.
- Confident working both independently and as part of a small, customer‑focused team to deliver quality outcomes.
- Clear communicator able to work effectively with supervisors, apprentices, and plant and equipment operators.
- Current drivers 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 appeals to you about this role?
- Do you hold a trade qualification in Engineering Metal Fabrication or Boiler Maker Welder Certificate III, or similar accredited qualification? Provide details.
Outline your experience welding steel, aluminium and stainless steel, including the welding processes and technologies you have used.
Provide an example of how you have applied current fitting and machining techniques to complete work safely, accurately and to specification.
Describe your ability to work both independently and as part of a small team, including how you communicate effectively with supervisors, apprentices and plant operators.
Describe how you apply safe work practices in a workshop or operational environment.
- Do you hold a current drivers licence?
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