Permanent | Full-time | 76 hours per fortnight
Nine Day Fortnight | Premium Recquatic Membership | 13% Superannuation
This position is classified as a PACS Band 3 ($35.47 – $37.46 per hour) under the City of Kwinana’s structured remuneration system.
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What’s On Offer
An exciting opportunity has become available for a passionate and suitably qualified individual to join our dedicated Natural Areas team at the City of Kwinana. Reporting to the Supervisor Natural Areas and working alongside a hardworking team of like-minded professionals. The primary focus of this role is the restoration, revegetation, protection and maintenance of the City’s natural areas and urban habitat.
Who Are We?
The City of Kwinana is an award-winning local government at the heart of Western Australia’s major industrial region and is home to the state’s second fastest growing population. With ongoing redevelopment, including new residential areas, modern community facilities, and improved transport links, Kwinana is rapidly evolving into a vibrant, connected, and liveable city – making it an exciting place to live and work.
What You'll Need
To be successful in this role you will need:
- Considerable experience working in the natural area environment, including knowledge of weed species and native plants.
- Cert III in Conservation and Land Management, or other relevant tertiary qualifications or experience.
- Current First Aid Certificate and WA ‘C’ Class Drivers Licence.
- Well-developed team skills.
- Well-developed interpersonal and communications skills.
- The ability to work effectively with minimal supervision and report on work output within program deliverables.
Please note the hours of work for this position are 7:00am - 4:00pm Monday to Thursday and 7:00am - 3:45pm Friday.
What’s In It For You?
At the City of Kwinana you will enjoy a true work-life balance, and a fantastic workplace culture borne from a collaborative team environment.
Other perks include, but are not limited to…
- A fantastic workplace, recently ranked alongside the top 10% of the most constructive local governments in Australia and New Zealand for workplace culture!
- Competitive salary plus 13% superannuation.
- A robust employee wellness program with initiatives designed to support employees' physical and mental wellbeing.
- A generous Celebration and Recognition Policy for employees.
- Career development, training opportunities and study support.
- Premium Kwinana Recquatic Centre membership.
Want To Know More?
For more information relating to the position, please contact Lee Carlsson, Supervisor Natural Areas on 9236 4350.
To be considered for this position applicants must submit a resume along with a covering letter briefly outlining how you meet the above criteria.
Apply online: Click the green 'Apply' button below.
Applications close 5:00pm Tuesday 27 October 2026
The City of Kwinana reserves the right to commence recruitment prior to the closing date, and will not accept or consider late applications
The City of Kwinana promotes and values diversity to create a unique work force. Applicants from diverse backgrounds, such as Aboriginal people, people living with disability or people from different cultural backgrounds are encouraged to apply. The City also strives to be a customer centric organisation, with the customer at the centre of everything we do. As such, all employees play an important role in helping us to achieve this by ensuring they provide best-practice customer service. The City has the goal of zero harm for its employees, this includes providing a smoke-free environment and minimising exposure to the elements. Conditions of employment are in accordance with the City’s current Enterprise Agreement. For further information, please contact our Recruitment team on 9236 4618 or 9236 4628.
Please note: As part of the City’s recruitment process, the selected applicant will be required to undergo a pre-employment medical which includes a Drug and Alcohol screen test.
