The Details:
- Permanent Full Time | 9 day fortnight
- $106,975 pa + 12% super (level 6) - with a 4.5% increase coming 1 July
- 72.5 hour fortnight
- Hybrid, flexible working environment, including some work from home days.
- Location: Narangba
Join City of Moreton Bay as a Senior Technical Officer - Waste Planning & Compliance, and help shape and enhance our communities for today and tomorrow.
Working within the Waste and Resource Recovery department, you'll be part of a collaborative, forward thinking team driving sustainable outcomes across City of Moreton Bay. The team is focused on delivering innovative waste management solutions, improving environmental performance and supporting Council's long term economy goals through data driven insights and strong stakeholder partnerships.
In this role, you will:
- Lead procurement and contract management for complex waste services, ensuring compliant and efficient delivery
- Analyse and interpret waste and environmental data to drive strategy, reporting and operational decision making
- Provide expert technical advice on waste planning, compliance and resource recovery initiatives
- Deliver and support key projects, including modelling waste flows, reviewing plans and improving service outcomes
- Guide and support Technical Officers while coordinating workflows to ensure timely and high quality outputs
- Build strong relationships with internal teams, contractors and regulators to strengthen service delivery and compliance
About you
You will bring experience preparing briefs, scopes of work, specifications and supporting documentation across waste projects, with a strong understanding of relevant legislation, standards and best practice in waste management operations.
You’re confident working with large, complex data sets, including analysis, modelling, and reporting. You apply project management principles in a team setting and plan and deliver projects within timeframes and budgets.
A relevant qualification in environmental or waste related fields is required, along with a current Construction Induction Card and a valid C Class Driver’s Licence.
Why City of Moreton Bay?
What you do with your life matters. It’s the same with your career.
We’re the third-largest council in Australia and one of the fastest-growing areas. As Australia’s newest city, we’re building something that’s never been done before: a new kind of city, inspired and empowered by a new kind of council.
This is your opportunity to develop skills and experience in a truly unique place, at a truly unique point in time.
At City of Moreton Bay, we’re focused on the vital work we do today. But we’re also focused on the future. On what can be – for our city, our Council and your career.
Here’s what you’ll love about a career with us:
- See it. To build a city of the future, first, you have to see it. The polycentric city we’re building will bring greater prosperity, sustainability and affordability to our city. This is your chance to contribute to something that’s never been done before.
- Shape it. You’ll get hands-on in a rewarding career, serving and strengthening our communities for today and tomorrow. Our work is diverse, interesting and it matters – and it’s yours to shape and own.
- Live it. Contribute to the city you and your family want to live in and enjoy the lifestyle you deserve. And if you don’t live here, you’ll still find pride and connection in so many ways with our successful, resilient team.
You’ll also enjoy a range of other benefits:
- Find a better work-life balance with a nine-day (72.5-hour) fortnight, plus a hybrid, flexible working environment with some work-from-home days.
- Negotiated salary increases locked in through our EBA - 4.5% in July 2026 and a further 4% in July 2027 (or CPI capped at 4.5%, whichever is greater).
- Advance your skills and career through our Study, Training And Research Scheme (STARS).
- Make your pay go further with salary packaging options on novated leases, superannuation payments, smartphones and devices.
- Prioritise your health and wellbeing with discounted health insurance, free annual flu vaccinations and our Fitness Passport Program.
- Get support when you and your family need it most with our 24/7 confidential counselling service and Mates in Construction program.
Ready for a career that matters?
Join City of Moreton Bay, and help shape our city of the future.
As part of the recruitment process, applicants will be required to undergo a National Criminal History Check.
To obtain further details please contact our Careers team at [email protected].
Your Future City.
See it. Shape it. Live It.
City of Moreton Bay extends across the traditional lands of the Jinibara, Kabi Kabi, and Turrbal peoples, and we acknowledge and pay respects to Traditional Custodians. We believe diversity of thought, background and experience creates better outcomes for our people and communities, and we strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people of all ages, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.
