Water Industry Undergraduate Program (Engineers) - 2025 Intake

Want hands on experience while completing your studies? Do you want to be mentored by experienced professionals? We are currently seeking new Water Industry Undergraduates and if you have these skills this might be your chance to rewrite the future with us.

• Exciting Undergraduate opportunities in the Waster and Sewer Business
• Gain valuable hands on experience with the third largest water utility in NSW while completing your studies!
• Work with highly proficient and experienced mentors in a supportive learning environment
• 12 month Temporary Part Time contracts - 21 hours per week commencing early 2025

About the role

Central Coast Council encourages career development through practical experience. The Undergraduate Programs gives students the ability to:

• Gain skills and experience across a broad range of functions in your relevant area of study. 
• Apply your knowledge in practical situations to achieve professional outcomes. 
• Work with highly proficient and experienced mentors in a multi-disciplinary environment. 

During your undergraduate period you will be given the opportunity to receive on the job training, use your sound engineering principles and practices to contribute to providing clean drinking water and quality wastewater services across a range of Council Water and Sewer Units. 

This position is required to provide quality customer service and create value for the community.

What you'll get to experience as an undergraduate in this role:

• Under the guidance of the supervisor, undertake reviews of data, evaluate and make recommendations for operational and maintenance improvements. 
• Under the guidance of the supervisor, assist in the development of operational and maintenance strategies for water and sewerage assets. 
• Under the guidance of the supervisor, undertake project management activities in support of overarching asset performance/process improvement programs. 

Our position description provides more information for you to learn more about this role.

Other important information

• The salary range for this position ranges between $609.63 - $733.74 per week (based on 21 hours per week) plus 11.5% superannuation
• This is a Temporary part-time role.
• We are able to offer hybrid and flexible working conditions for this role.
• This role is located at the Nexus Business Hub, North Wyong. 
• Successful candidates will be required to have vaccinations against Hepatitis A and B and Tetanus.

Council may create an eligibility list from this recruitment process and may utilise this eligibility list to fill other permanent or temporary vacancies.

Extra benefits

At Central Coast Council we provide team members with a range of extras that help them balance their life when they need it. Fitness Passports give access to a range of gyms. Wellbeing leave can be accessed twice a year to tick off something that means something to you - volunteering, health check-ups. And an Employee Assistance Program that offers a range of wellbeing initiatives to help you and your immediate family.

Other extras include:

• Long service leave after 5 years of continuous service
• Free flu vaccination program
• Time provided for you to do annual skin cancer screening, Breast screen and blood donations
• Access to professional development with career development and learning programs through various platforms
• We reward and recognise our staff with our Cheers program
• Novated leasing partnerships. 

Central Coast Council is committed to the goals of equal opportunity employment. We aim to provide a work environment for our employees that fosters equity, diversity and respect.

Council is committed to providing safe environments that protect the physical, emotional, cultural and social wellbeing of children on the Central Coast.

What to know more?

The contacts for this role are Chris Urquhart, Section Manager Maintenance Services on 0418 489 815 or Greg Horvath, Section Manager Treatment Plants and Catchments on 0419 139 326 or Luke Drury, Section Manager Assets and Planning on 0400 734 217.

This position will close for applications at midnight on Sunday 17 November 2024.

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Location

Central Coast Council is ideally located on the northern fringe of Sydney and just an hour's drive from Newcastle, the Central Coast offers one of the best places in Australia to live and work. The Central Coast is one of the fastest growing regions in NSW, the third largest Local Government Area (LGA) in NSW and the 6th Largest LGA in Australia. 

We have a number of work locations across the region, offering different work locations for team members.

Central Coast Council is the third largest water utility (or water and sewage service) in NSW servicing 139,000 homes and businesses in a growing region.

How to apply

We have put together some additional resources to help you apply for a role at Central Coast Council.

By completing and submitting this online application you confirm that any information that you provide in this application is true and correct and acknowledge that any offer of employment may be withdrawn should the information that you have provided in support of your application be shown to be false. 

You also consent to employment screening checks being conducted where appropriate.  This may include associated checks including reference checks, Working with Children Check, Entitlement to Work in Australia, employment history and an Australian Federal Police Check, as well as substantiation of educational qualifications, industry memberships, previous Central Coast Council employment history and association with professional bodies.

You also acknowledge that you will be required to provide proof of eligibility (including photo identification) to work in Australia if selected for an interview.

To lodge your application, please follow these steps:

1. Answer the on-line questions shown below.
2. Attach your resume 
3. Attach your qualifications and licences.

Once your application is successfully lodged you will receive an automated response sent to your e-mail address. If a response is not received this means that your application has not been successfully submitted and you will need to lodge another application.

If you require assistance to lodge your application please contact our Talent Acquisition team by emailing recruit@centralcoast.nsw.gov.au to discuss what reasonable adjustments you may need. If you are deaf, hearing or speech impaired, you can contact us through the National Relay Service TTY call 133 677 or Speak & Listen 1300 555 727.

Applicants who are selected for interview will be contacted by phone or e-mail. For further instructions please click here. 

You will have the ability to save your application as you go using the 'Save Application' button. You can start an application and return to it later via the automatic follow-up email once you have the time and required information at hand to finalise your application.  

If you don't have access to a computer or electronic device, you can lodge your application at any of Council's Library locations. Pre-book a free 1-hour computer timeslot by contacting your nearest library https://www.centralcoast.nsw.gov.au/libraries/our-branches or ask at the enquiry counter.

We will not accept unsolicited resumes or applications being presented by recruitment agencies.