Looking for a change? Want to make a difference in your community? Council is regularly looking for enthusiastic and committed people to join our growing team.

Council strives to be an Employer of Choice, offering a wide variety of careers across the four key areas of Executive services, Community Services, Corporate Services, and City Growth and Operations. In turn, we will support your professional development with continual innovation, training and renewed leadership. Do you want to become part of our success and take on one of our challenging and rewarding roles?

Council offers:

  • A positive work environment: a workplace, where diversity is respected and valued; strong team spirit across our departments; an environment where staff are valued, supported and are included in decision making; social club activities and regular social gatherings and activities; equal opportunities.
  • Work-Life balance: six weeks annual leave and three weeks personal leave; access to free and confidential counselling sessions; discounted access to health promotions programs; some flexibility in work arrangements.
  • Professional development: dedicated support for training opportunities, study and professional development activities; internal training sessions; study leave; varied and challenging positions, opportunities for career development, opportunity to participate in Annual Local Government Management Challenge.
  • Excellent remuneration: competitive salaries; additional employer superannuation contributions; salary continuance; salary packaging options.

Please read the information about the application process before you prepare your application.

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Director City Growth and Operations

Full time permanent/term contract

As Director City Growth and Operations, you will lead by example, empower and inspire an engaged workforce that delivers $30m of community infrastructure through a range of areas including Asset Management, Contracts and Civil Works, Parks and Recreation, Traffic Management, Waste Management, Land Use Planning and Environment. These services are critical in supporting the organisation to deliver successful outcomes to benefit our growing community.

This role will see your people and project management skills shine as you juggle several challenging high priority projects and daily operations. With excellent relationship management skills, you will have an integrated approach to continuous improvement across all areas of the Directorate, coaching, mentoring and developing staff to provide a service of excellence. You will be instrumental in developing and implementing departmental strategic and operational plans that will deliver the required outcomes of Council through the Community Plan.

To be successful in securing this role, you will have a proven record of leading high performing teams in the delivery of services to the community. You will have a strong technical grounding which will give you credibility in managing our technical services team. Your people and project management skills coupled with contract management and capital delivery will set you apart. An understanding of asset management will also be valuable as we look to produce new and maintain existing aging assets. You will be highly organised with the ability to manage all levels of stakeholders across the business and externally. As a broad, conceptual thinker, your ability to improve processes and innovate to deliver outstanding technical solutions and service to our customers will see you succeed in this key leadership position.

For a position description or to apply for this role please visit the McArthur website at www.mcarthur.com.au

For a confidential conversation, please contact Nick Kelly on (03) 9828 6562.

Applications close: Friday 8th March 2019.

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