• Permanent, Full-time
• $97,000 - $104,000 p/a plus Superannuation
• Join the Waste and Sustainability team

Hume City Council is one of Australia’s fastest growing and culturally diverse councils. We put the customer and our community at the centre of all that we do, ensuring our services are efficient and accessible.

Operations Supervisor – Kerbside Services, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the safe, effective, and efficient delivery of services to the Hume community.

What you’ll be doing:

• Provide effective guidance and supervision to Kerbside Services group employees, to engage and inspire employees to demonstrate organisational values aligned behaviour, and to optimally achieve service standards. 
• Supervise, guide, and maximise the performance of the Kerbside Services group by participating in in the induction, recruitment, performance management and training (internal and external) of employees.
• Supervise the services delivered by the Kerbside Services group, including, kerbside garbage, recycling and FOGO collection, kerbside bin deliveries and maintenance, public litter and recycling bin collections, public bin infrastructure installation and maintenance, and hard waste collections, ensuring service continuity, achievement of service standards, and the provision of quality customer service is maintained. 
• Supervise and oversee the day-to-day operations of contracted services within the Kerbside Services unit, highlighting performance concerns to the Waste Contracts team for further action.
• Support the implementation of allocated actions and the achievement of targets from Council’s strategic documents, including the Waste and Resource Recovery Strategy 2022-2030. 
• Ensure the timely and effective delivery of allocated actions from the department Business Plan.
• Remain engaged in, and informed of, changes within the broader waste, resource recovery and local government sectors, suggesting and implementing changes.
• Ensure the Kerbside Services group is customer focussed, responding to all internal and external enquiries and issues in a timely, accurate and professional manner, in line with Council’s policies and procedures. 
• Actively monitor the achievement of service quality and delivery benchmarks, including Service Level Agreements, to meet Council, customer, and community expectations.
• Provide input into the development of the Kerbside Services unit's budget, including fees and charges. 
• Monitor expenditure, ensuring expenses are within budget and correctly allocated, providing regular reports on expenditure and forecasts to the Coordinator Kerbside Services.
• Provide high-quality, professional written and verbal reports, presentations, and advice to the Coordinator Kerbside Services, Manager Waste and Sustainability, other departments, and other agencies. 
• Regularly report to the Coordinator Kerbside Services on group performance and issues, proposing and discussing solutions as needed.

The skills and experience you’ll bring to the role:

• Demonstrated supervisory and leadership skills and ability to manage and guide a diverse team of multi-disciplinary staff, preferably in an operational context within a Local Government environment.
• Demonstrated experience complying with and working to Occupational Health and Safety regulations, policies, and procedures. 
• Sound knowledge of relevant contemporary resource recovery and waste management practice and legislation, including ensuring environmental compliance.
• Experience and working knowledge of waste management, kerbside collections, and operations. 
• Strong understanding of Occupational Health and Safety and experience in applying this within operational environments.
• Supervise and assist with the development of the Kerbside Services group. 
• Well-developed customer service and communication skills, including the ability to communicate clearly with people from a variety of backgrounds.

Required Certifications & Qualifications:

• Tertiary qualifications in operations, safety, business, management, or a related discipline with relevant experience working in the field.
• Current driver’s licence (Heavy Rigid licence highly regarded).

Why Hume City Council?

A leader in local government, we’re committed to creating an inclusive and collaborative work environment that is guided by our values:

We’re better, every day: We give things a go and value progress over perfection. We have permission to go for it and are expected to reflect and learn.

We’re in it together: At Hume, everyone matters. We Welcome and include all. Respect and safety are expected.

We show up: We empower and trust others and own our work. We rise to the challenges and are expected to do what we say we will.

All for Hume: We strive to achieve our best for the Hume Community. We are proud and passionate about working towards better outcomes and expect they are at the centre of everything we do.

We offer a competitive salary package, professional development opportunities, and a supportive work environment.

A child safe organisation and an equal opportunity employer. Council encourages people of all ages, people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.

All candidates will be required to undertake background and probity checks including Reference Checks, Working with Children Check, and a Criminal Record Check. #LI-Hybrid

The Cloud Operations Team are central to how Nine uses cloud technology, and are the primary point of contact within the Platforms function regarding anything cloud. You’ll be leading from the front in building out Nine’s cloud security posture and policies, monitoring and alerting tooling, as well as managing cost controls (FinOps) and vendors. 

You contribute to a learning-oriented workplace culture, being curious about the world
around you, seeking new ways to explore and bring new thinking and practices to bear
within your team. You remain open to learning new technologies and techniques, and finding creative ways to leverage this knowledge to further team goals.

You work in partnership with various product teams and practices enabling them to conduct rapid, stable, secure and repeatable deployments on Cloud and Kubernetes at scale.

You are structured and methodical in your process and have demonstrated skills building and delivering support services for 24/7 systems.

Day to Day, you will: 

Enabling your team:

• Assist the team in a hands-on capacity as required
• Work with stakeholders to provide technical solutions to problems or issues
• Act as a enabler, removing roadblocks to progress as needed
• Work with team members to guide solutions towards business and technology goals
• Drive the continuous improvement of processes and ways of work to improve team capacity and capability

Technical Leadership:

• Drive adoption of best practice and best in class technology
• Remove single points of failure by cross-skilling staff and making sensible, strategic resourcing decisions
• Always be on the lookout for products, solutions and enhancements which address current or perceived future business problems

Drive high performance:

• Provide one on one feedback, career advice and coaching for your team members
• Communicate openly and be the voice of the business within your team, keeping them informed of and working towards the business vision & goals
• Participate in hiring and other HR processes affecting your team where needed
• Mentor team members to create a highly motivated, coherent, and cohesive culture which rewards high performance

• Permanent, Full-time
• $97,099.24 per annum plus Superannuation
• Join the Waste and Sustainability team

Hume City Council is one of Australia’s fastest growing and culturally diverse councils. We put the customer and our community at the centre of all that we do, ensuring our services are efficient and accessible.

As Operations Supervisor – Litter and Dumped Rubbish, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the safe, effective, and efficient delivery of services to the Hume community.

What you’ll be doing:

• Provide effective leadership and supervision to Litter and Dumped Rubbish group employees, to engage and inspire employees to demonstrate organisational values aligned behaviour, and to optimally achieve service standards.
• Supervise, lead, and maximise the performance of the Litter and Dumped Rubbish group by participating in in the induction, recruitment, performance management and training (internal and external) of employees.
• Supervise the services delivered by the Litter and Dumped Rubbish group, including, the waste response program, and removal of litter and illegally dumped waste (including hazards materials), ensuring service continuity, achievement of service standards, and the provision of quality customer service is maintained. 
• Contribute to the ongoing process of plant and equipment assessment and replacement in consultation with teams, Coordinator Waste Operations, and Fleet Services.
• Support the implementation of allocated actions and the achievement of targets from Council’s strategic documents, including the Waste and Resource Recovery Strategy 2022-2030. 
• Ensure the timely and effective delivery of allocated actions from the department Business Plan.
• Ensure the Litter and Dumped Rubbish group is customer focussed, responding to all internal and external enquiries and issues in a timely, accurate and professional manner, in line with Council’s policies and procedures. 
• Actively monitor the achievement of service quality and delivery benchmarks, including Service Level Agreements, to meet Council, customer, and community expectations.
• Support in the monitoring of expenditure, ensuring expenses are within budget and correctly allocated, providing regular reports on expenditure and forecasts to the Coordinator Waste Operations.
• Ensure the application of Council’s procurement, delegations and financial policies and guidelines across the Litter and Dumped Rubbish group.
• Provide high-quality, professional written and verbal reports, presentations, and advice to the Coordinator Waste Operations, Manager Waste and Sustainability, other departments, and other agencies. 
• Regularly report to the Coordinator Waste Operations on Litter and Dumped Rubbish group performance and issues, proposing and discussing solutions as needed.

The skills and experience you’ll bring to the role:

• Demonstrated supervisory and leadership skills and ability to manage and guide a diverse team of multi-disciplinary staff, preferably in an operational context within a Local Government environment.
• Well-developed customer service and communication skills, including the ability to communicate clearly with people from a variety of backgrounds.
• Experience and working knowledge of waste management and operations. 
• Strong understanding of Occupational Health and Safety and experience in applying this within operational environments. 
• Understanding of investigation processes and enforcement powers of authorised officers in relation to illegally dumped waste within Victoria.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of information and advice.

Required Certifications & Qualifications:

• Tertiary qualifications in operations, safety, business, management, or a related discipline with relevant experience working in the field.
• Current driver’s licence (Medium Rigid licence highly regarded)

Why Hume City Council?

A leader in local government, we’re committed to creating an inclusive and collaborative work environment that is guided by our values:

We’re better, every day: We give things a go and value progress over perfection. We have permission to go for it and are expected to reflect and learn.

We’re in it together: At Hume, everyone matters. We Welcome and include all. Respect and safety are expected.

We show up: We empower and trust others and own our work. We rise to the challenges and are expected to do what we say we will.

All for Hume: We strive to achieve our best for the Hume Community. We are proud and passionate about working towards better outcomes and expect they are at the centre of everything we do.

We offer a competitive salary package, professional development opportunities, and a supportive work environment.

A child safe organisation and an equal opportunity employer. Council encourages people of all ages, people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.

All candidates will be required to undertake background and probity checks including Reference Checks, Working with Children Check, and a Criminal Record Check. #LI-Hybrid

BlueScope is an Australian-born global success story spanning 15 countries. Our team of over 16,500 people is our strength and we want our people to be safe, successful and well. We’re leaders and innovators in transforming steel into smart products and solutions that support society, today and in the future. We’re proud of brands, like COLORBOND ® steel that inspire and protect everything from hospitals to bridges and stadiums.

The Opportunity

Our Lysaght business is looking for a Operations Technician to join the Operations based in MAckay. Made in Australia since 1921, Lysaght manufactures and markets steel building products that have helped shape the nation: from iconic corrugated roofing over Australian homes, to large commercial and industrial projects.

Being in an Operations Technician role with us, you’ll be working in a continuous production environment, operating machinery the produces roofing and wall cladding materials. Using 100% Australian made steel in the manufacturing process, you’ll be key to providing customers with what they need, when they need it. 

This will be working Day Shift from 6am with the eligibility to work OT when possible.

What Will You Do?

As someone who is committed to the safety of their team and delivering on customer expectations you will be:

• assisting with the setting up, adjusting, and operating of machinery for producing roofing and other steel roofing products
• learning how to read and interpret detailed orders and drawings for production
• monitoring product quality, ensuring finished product meets expected requirements   
• jumping in helping other departments when and where the need arises

More About You

Being a reliable and dedicated individual with a willingness to learn and develop yourself, you will also bring: 

• exposure or interest in, working in a manufacturing environment
• the ability or willingness to learn how to drive a forklift
• a positive attitude and a keen eye for detail
• the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• a commitment to your own safety and wellbeing and care for others

Why BlueScope​

As we’re creating strength for the future through our people, products and solutions, BlueScope supports you to build your expertise within a safe and positive team environment. At BlueScope, you’ll:​

• Learn and develop as you grow. Work alongside specialists and keep your skills and knowledge at the forefront of industry with our lifelong learning culture.​
• Experience connection and care. Experience a positive, inclusive work environment where we look out for each other’s safety and wellbeing.​
• Build innovative products. Seek better, smarter ways to work, help develop sustainable solutions and make things happen.​
• Deliver work that matters. Every action you take matters in delivering for our customers and strengthening communities for the future. We value what you do. ​

At BlueScope, we offer work-life flexibility through our B-flex program. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive environment where every employee feels respected and valued to be their authentic selves, and welcome people of all backgrounds, skills, experiences and perspectives. We’re passionate about driving sustainability outcomes that matter to our communities, including action on climate and our 2050 net zero goal.​

It’s an exciting time in our history as, together, we work towards Our Purpose: “We create and inspire smart solutions in steel, to strengthen communities for the future.” ​

Come and discover us at www.bluescope.com/auscareers​

Join us, creating strength for the future.

Applications close Thursday, 24th October 2024.