Blacktown City Council

Waterway Projects Officer

Blacktown City is a growing and thriving city, located halfway between Sydney City and the Blue Mountains. With 435,000 residents, we are the largest and most diverse city in NSW, spread across 54 suburbs. Blacktown City is vibrant, dynamic and multicultural, home to a large First Nations community, and more than 180 different birthplaces and languages.

With $24.8 billion regional economy, Blacktown City is also home to 30,000 businesses. Working at Blacktown City Council provides widespread, exciting professional opportunities. Our Council is leading the transformation of Blacktown City and Western Sydney. We are implementing a vision for a modern city, full of opportunity for our residents and businesses.

Our Council is led by highly skilled and experienced professionals, working with talented and passionate teams across a diverse range of business units. We are delivering high quality, customer-focused services, experiences, and facilities, and leading a program of strategic planning, activity and investment.

Blacktown City Council strives to be an inclusive workplace for all people. We welcome applications from all ages and genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from culturally diverse backgrounds, the LGBTIQ+ community, veterans and people with disabilities.

About the opportunity

We have an exciting permanent, full-time opportunity for an environmental professional to join our Waterways team as the Waterway Projects Officer.

The purpose of this role is to:

• Develop and implement activities to support the implementation of Council's Environmental stormwater management program and Six streams integrated water strategy, to help Blacktown transition to a water sensitive City, that values and improves its waterways for the benefit of the community and the environment
• Develop and deliver the waterway health planning, monitoring, and community awareness programs to inform catchment management activities, to improve waterway health and enhance liveability for our community. 

Qualifications and experience

Essential:

• Degree in Environmental Science, Environmental Management or Natural Resources Management
• Minimum 2 years’ work experience in a similar work environment
• Demonstrated knowledge in catchment management issues, ecosystem health and freshwater urban stream management and ecology
• Demonstrated ability to engage with the community to understand community values and uses of waterways
• Demonstrated experience in project management including managing contractors to meet timeframes and within budget
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Experience in the use of Microsoft Office
• Demonstrated commitment to deliver good customer service
• Demonstrated experience in interpretation and analysis of complex data to inform decision making
• Good interpersonal skills to effectively work with internal and external stakeholders
• Current class C driver’s licence.

Desirable:

• Experience in the use of InDesign software
• Experience in the use of CM9 and Technology One
• Experience in the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) including ESRI ArcGIS and QGIS or similar.

Remuneration and benefits

The salary and conditions of employment are in accordance with Blacktown City Council’s Enterprise Agreement.

• Entry level for this position starts at $1,798.21 per week
• 35-hour working week 
• Opportunity to participate in Council's flextime arrangement
• Employee benefits such as leave entitlements (where applicable), 11.5% employer contribution payable to your nominated superannuation fund, Fitness Passport, gym membership discounts, and social clubs.

Our commitment to safety

Blacktown City Council is committed to safety. We have introduced alcohol and other drug testing at the pre-employment phase, and via a series of random and cause testing.

We are a child safe organisation that supports and promotes the safety, wellbeing and empowerment of children.

Position description 

Click here to view or download the position description.

  Apply now using our fast and easy-to-use online application process:

1. Have your resume and any other relevant documentation ready to attach. 
2. Have a personal email address ready to use and complete your application without 'logging out' of the system.
3. Review the questions and decide on your responses before commencing your application.

   Best of luck.

Closing date:           Friday 23 May 2025, 11.59 pm    

Contact officer:       Keysha Milenkovic on 9839 6901

Internal ref:              BCC2055