We love water and love life. What we do makes a vital contribution to Melbourne’s famous lifestyle. We achieve this by supplying high quality drinking water, providing outstanding sewerage services, integrating drainage systems, building resilience to flooding and by enhancing our waterway and land for greater community use. It’s a pride we share in helping to make greater Melbourne a fantastic place to live.
Reporting to the Natural Resource Management Supervisor, you’ll have the opportunity to make a difference and add to our work environment, within a place where you can learn and perform to your fullest potential.
At Melbourne Water we have multiple full time and fixed term contracts working as an Environmental Field Crew member. One of these full time roles is with a preference for tree felling, your chainsaw qualification and experience in tree felling and chipper use will be required.
If you have a passion for the environment, love working outside and have a background or keen interest in horticulture, environmental science, landscaping, or land management then we are wanting you to join our dynamic team.
These roles are based from our South East Regional Office in Bangholme, working along Melbourne’s beautiful waterways and wetlands in the South East Region. These customer facing roles contribute to enhancing the livability for all Melbournians.
The role will see you working alongside other environmental enthusiasts to deliver the maintenance project works across our waterways and land assets. Your ability to take care of your colleagues and your own Health & Safety will see you succeed within this role.
Become part of a talented and passionate team dedicated to enhancing life and liveability in Melbourne and beyond. Doing truly meaningful work in a supportive and inclusive culture that encourages you to make the most of your talents.
We provide a range of employee benefits that will make your experience working at Melbourne Water both professionally and personally rewarding.
Melbourne Water is committed to flexible working. We offer a variety of flexible arrangements to suit our employees varied needs and the business, including purchased leave, varied start and finish times, working from alternative locations, part time work and 9-day fortnights. We understand that Melbourne Water and our customers benefit from enabling our employees to achieve balance in work and life.
We’re a curious bunch at Melbourne Water and relish any opportunity to learn something new. We are in the business of enhancing life and liveability, which lends itself to re-imagining what’s possible and challenging the status quo. We offer a variety of learning opportunities; from formal development programs, digital learning content and lunch & learns; to visiting our sites and getting to see our initiatives and projects first hand. We believe that learning happens every day, so we support our people to continuously learn and experiment in the flow of their work, designing their own development path.
Our people are passionate, welcoming and inclusive. We welcome applications from everyone, including people with disability, mature age and young job seekers, members of the LGBTI+ community, and people from culturally diverse backgrounds. Melbourne Water welcomes and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
For more information, please see the attached Position Description: Position_Description_-_WLD Crew Member.pdf
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Please note a Police Check / Health Assessment and Pre-Employment medical is required for this position.
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At Melbourne Water we have multiple full time and fixed term contracts working as an Environmental Field Crew member. One of these full time roles is with a preference for tree felling, your chainsaw qualification and experience in tree felling and chipper use will be required. If you have a passion for the environment, love working outside and have a background or keen interest in horticulture, environmental science, landscaping, or land management then we are wanting you to join our dynamic team. These roles are based from our South East Regional Office in Bangholme, working along Melbourne’s beautiful waterways and wetlands in the South East Region. These customer facing roles contribute to enhancing the livability for all Melbournians. The role will see you working alongside other environmental enthusiasts to deliver the maintenance project works across our waterways and land assets. Your ability to take care of your colleagues and your own Health & Safety will see you succeed within this role.
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