Job Description

The Details:

• Permanent Full Time | 9 day fortnight
• $106,974 + 12% super (level 6) + a commuter use vehicle
• 72.5 hour fortnight
• Location: Narangba

This position will see you leading and overseeing civil infrastructure asset inspections, currently delivered by a team of 13 Asset Inspectors. You’ll provide day to day leadership, technical guidance and operational support across a diverse civil asset portfolio, including roads, drainage, footpaths, underground stormwater, bridges, culverts and other civil structures

You will be responsible for:

• Providing operational leadership and technical oversight to the civil asset inspection and maintenance functions, ensuring activities align with Council’s strategic asset management objectives, innovation agenda and business practices
• Operationalising Council’s civil asset inspection programs, leading the delivery of condition assessments, accurate defect identification and reliable data capture to support strategic planning, risk based prioritisation and informed decision making
• Supporting both reactive and scheduled inspection programs, ensuring timely follow up, accuracy and effective coordination
• Acting as a key escalation point for the inspection team - supporting inspectors during complex customer conversations and providing customer liaison where needed
• Offering technical advice and sourcing relevant information to respond to a wide range of asset related issues and enquiries
• Prioritising and scoping customer requests, ensuring responses align with service levels and are managed efficiently
• Developing and maintaining safe work practices for all inspection activities, ensuring compliance with organisational safety standards and fostering a proactive safety culture
• Translating strategic asset management priorities into practical operational inspection programs
• Overseeing customer request evaluation, triage and maintenance response, ensuring alignment with expectations and Council processes
• Building strong, collaborative relationships with internal stakeholders, contractors and external partners to improve service integration, responsiveness and alignment with asset management strategies
• Conducting occasional procurement activities for goods and services in line with Council’s procurement framework

Please note - this role requires the participation in council's "After Hours On-Call and Programmed Overtime Roster" service.

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About you

You’re an experienced, people focused leader who enjoys supporting teams, solving problems and helping others deliver great outcomes for the community. You communicate clearly, stay calm under pressure and feel confident sourcing technical information to guide your team through day to day challenges.

You’ll bring:

• Experience working with Council infrastructure assets and an understanding of how inspections, maintenance and customer requests support wider asset management goals
• Strong leadership and supervisory experience, with the ability to support, mentor and develop a diverse operational team
• Excellent communication skills - comfortable engaging with staff, customers, contractors and stakeholders, including during complex or challenging conversations
• Friendly, collaborative relationship building skills that help create a positive, connected and productive team environment
• A commitment to delivering high quality, customer focused service and contributing to a supportive workplace culture
• Hands on exposure to infrastructure maintenance, with the ability to interpret technical information and help identify practical solutions to inspection findings, operational issues and asset performance concerns
• Confidence using a range of software systems, and the ability to turn data and digital tools into improved operational practices and better decision making
• Strong organisational and prioritisation skills, including experience scoping and prioritising customer requests and supporting both reactive and scheduled inspection programs

Qualifications & Licences:

• Tertiary qualification in a relevant field is highly regarded, or significant relevant experience in lieu of formal qualifications
• Current C Class driver’s licence (minimum)

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 fortnight.
• Negotiated salary increases locked in through our EBA - 4% 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, leader support hotline and Mates in Construction program.
• Our Depots have free local parking on site making for an easy commute.

Ready for a career that matters?

Join City of Moreton Bay, and help shape our city of the future.

Click on the 'Apply Now' button below to complete your online application. Please upload a current resume that demonstrates how you meet the requirements for this role. You will also have the option to add a cover letter should you wish.

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 careers@moretonbay.qld.gov.au

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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.