Personnel Area: Lifestyle and Community Services
Branches: City Safety and Community Standards
Salary Range: Band 8, $139,957 to $151,454 per annum plus superannuation (Remuneration stated is for the full-time positions)
Work type: Permanent Full-time and Temporary Full-time positions
- Are you a true people leader?
- Have you developed a positive culture of empowerment and trust across multiple teams?
- Do you thrive in leading and enabling business improvements and navigating change initiatives and processes?
- Have a passion for compliance and regulatory services?
We have five leadership positions!
- Two permanent Business Manager, Built Environment, Community Standards
- Three temporary Business Manager, City Safety positions available – Up to 12 months
Our Business:
The Compliance and Regulatory Services (CARS) team contributes to the health, safety and amenity of Brisbane through a range of licensing and regulatory services related to environmental health; land use and built environment; animal management; natural environment; parking regulation; asset use; and contract management. We are highly customer focussed, and we engage with people in a consistent, responsive way to make the right decisions to resolve problems and deliver solutions.
The Business Manager, Built Environment permanent positions will report to the Manager, Community Standards. Built Environment is a diverse work unit that undertakes compliance and assessments issues including unlawful building work, built to boundary structures and walls, advertising, storm water runoff and overland flow, retaining walls, dangerous structures, demolitions, house removals, swimming pool safety issues (fencing), fire safety and overcrowding in budget and student accommodation, footway and driveway permits, siting variations, home businesses, development in waterways and wetlands, general nuisances especially around non-compliance with development approvals and technical advice.
The Business Manager, City Safety temporary positions will report to the Manager, City Safety. City Safety is committed in the delivery of two primary functions: safety of public spaces and improved amenity of the city. With dedicated field staff, along with essential office-based support, City Safety provides a timely, multi-skilled, citywide, 24/7 response to compliance related activities and disaster response functions to Brisbane. Our focus on the primary functions, maintaining and refining both out proactive and reactive responses to deliver safety and improved amenity for the city.
The Business Managers will lead the following field-based teams in City Safety:
Parking Compliance Team, this team continually monitors compliance with parking regulations to maximise the safety and efficiency of the existing road network and ensures equitable use of kerbside space for all road users. These activities also reduce congestion and ensure the road network operates efficiently and safely.
Activities completed by the team include:
- Patrolling traffic areas, work zones, clearways, and major events.
- Responding to illegal parking, roadway/footpath parking community reports.
- Enforcing residential parking permits and responding to related community reports.
Animal Services Team, this team supports responsible pet ownership, including compliance with animal management legislation.
Activities completed by the team include:
- Capturing and impounding of animals found in public places.
- Responding to community reports, including management of dogs that are not under effective control in public spaces.
- Investigations of animal attacks.
- Declaring and monitoring of regulated dogs.
- Delivering education and regulatory campaigns to support responsible pet ownership.
Amenity Services Team, this team works to keep our city clean and preserve visual amenity by protecting our environment from waste and litter pollution.
Activities completed by the team include:
- Managing unsightly properties across the city.
- Responding to and enforcing amenity, unsightly objects, abandoned shopping trolleys, and litter complaints across Brisbane’s suburbs.
- Enforcing legislation to improve poor performance and prosecute serious amenity concerns and risks.
- Working in partnership with the community and other agencies, such as Queensland Police Service to reduce the impact of graffiti on public facing assets and private property.
- Responding to and enforcing abandoned vehicle community reports.
To be successful you will have:
- demonstrated evidence of capabilities in Council’s Leadership Blueprint to deliver performance excellence and a values-based culture.
- leadership skills that enable you to develop, mentor and direct a high performing team
- exceptional stakeholder relationship management skills and contribute to the strategic direction of the branch
- experience in a regulatory / compliance service setting, including legislative and regulatory framework knowledge
- experience in managing complex issues, making considered decisions and applying a solution focussed mindset
- highly developed interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written)
- demonstrated ability to negotiate, influence
- ability to identify and drive business improvement while monitoring business performance.
- budgeting and reporting experience
- demonstrated high level of strategic agility as well as hands on operational capability
Benefits of working for Council include:
- flexible working hours, and flexible arrangements
- free gym and wellness centre
- award winning superannuation fund
- generous leave provisions
- competitive salary.
Benefits of working for Council: CLICK HERE
How to apply: Click on the 'I’m interested' button to complete your online application. Please upload your tailored resume and covering letter (of no more than one page) demonstrating your suitability to the position.
This role will require a Criminal History Check.
For more information: Please call Lillian Moriarty on 07 3178 7205
People from diverse backgrounds, including those living with a disability and/or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, who may have questions about the recruitment process or working at Council, are encouraged to reach out to the contact above, who can connect you with a member of Council’s Diversity and Inclusion team.
Application Closing Date: Sunday 28 July 2024 at 11:55pm
Brisbane City Council is a multi-award winning accessible and inclusive workplace where our people represent the diverse communities we serve, are supported, and can feel safe. Council has been awarded Employer of the Year at the National Disability Awards and has been recognised multiple times with ‘Gold Employer’ status from the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTI inclusion.