Job Description

Senior Trade Overseer – Facilities Maintenance – Plumbing 5D

Silverwater Correctional Complex

Location: Silverwater Correctional Complex

Employment typeFull-time Ongoing
Salary: $105,040.00 pa + Incidental Allowance + Leave Loading + Superannuation

Your role:

We are looking for a proactive and dedicated Senior Trade Overseer to work within our Facility Maintenance Unit at the Silverwater Correctional Complex

What you’ll do:

Join an organisation with a rich history where your trade experience is valued. Senior Trade Overseers are trade qualified Correctional Officers with the essential role of using your trade skills to work with and supervise inmates and other staff to undertake programmed and reactive maintenance tasks essential to keep the correctional centre operational.

Provide leadership and mentoring to Overseers, and supervise and develop inmates through managing, coaching, instructing, and encouraging them, as members of a team, in order that they may improve their work skills, enhance their post-release employment prospects, and contribute productively to Business Unit objectives.

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We focus on hiring people who share our commitment and goals of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, courage and integrity. If you meet the essential requirements and the role resonates with you, please apply – you do not need to meet every desired requirement for us to want to talk to you.

Qualifications Required:

• Current Certificate III in Correctional Practice or capacity to complete Certificate III in Correctional Practice in accordance with specified CSNSW timeframes. (Primary training to be provided by CSNSW)
• Current NSW Driver Licence and preparedness to drive a vehicle while performing the role.
• Relevant trade/tertiary qualifications: NSW Fair Trading Plumbing Contractors Licence or Qualified Supervisors certification required.
• Backflow Prevention and TMV certification desirable but not essential.

Essential Requirements:

• Experience which demonstrates the ability to meet the key accountabilities and focus capabilities as detailed in the Senior Overseer role description.

• Possess proven trade experience, coordinating trade staff and operational activity. Be willing to; work within an after-hours on-call roster, work overtime, work flexibly across trades to meet operational needs.

What We Offer

We offer a variety of benefits, including:

• A challenging and rewarding career

• Flexible, autonomous work environment

• Competitive pay and conditions

• Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities

• Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.

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We do work that really matters

Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It’s work that really matters.

Apply now and join Australia’s top public sector employer where we will support you and provide an exciting and flexible working environment!

Are you ready to join us?

Click apply, attach a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) outlining how you meet the key accountabilities and focus capabilities of this role as specified in the role description (please refer to the Role Description so that you can address the highlighted capabilities) as well as an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages).

Copies of Trade Qualifications MUST be attached.

Applications close 11:59pm, Sunday, 14 June 2026

Got a question?

For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Justin Sawyer via Justin.Sawyer@correctiveservices.nsw.gov.au

If you’ve got a question about applying or would benefit from an adjustment in the recruitment process to help you perform at your best, please contact Kaushik Gounder via kaushik.gounder@dcj.nsw.gov.au

Visit Recruitment adjustments on the DCJ website to learn more.

Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit

We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.

To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visitInclusion and diversity on the DCJ website

Other Information

Talent Pool– Candidates applying for Talent Pool consideration must possess relevant trade or tertiary qualifications, with a minimum requirement of a Trade Certificate III in; Plumbing, Building or Construction, Mechanical Fitter, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (HVAC), or facilities maintenance trade-related role.

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