Trade Overseer – Ground Maintenance

Location: Macquarie Correctional Centre

Employment type: Ongoing, Full Time

Salary: $97,285 pa + Incidental Allowance + Leave Loading + Superannuation

Your Role

Turn your trade experience into leadership that changes lives. Are you an experienced trade professional ready for your next challenge? Macquarie Correctional Centre is seeking a motivated and capable Trade Overseer to lead Grounds Maintenance operations while developing practical trade skills and work readiness among inmates to support successful reintegration into the community. This is more than a traditional horticulture or grounds maintenance role. You'll combine your trade expertise in horticulture, greenkeeping, or parks and gardens with leadership, mentoring, and operational delivery in a unique environment where your work has a genuine impact every day. Working alongside and guiding inmate work crews, you'll help develop practical skills, promote safe work practices, and contribute to the maintenance and presentation of the centre's grounds and landscaped areas. This is an opportunity to use your trade skills to achieve operational outcomes while making a positive difference through coaching and rehabilitation.

Key Accountabilities

- Supervise, coach and support inmates to develop workplace skills, improve post-release employment opportunities and contribute to reduced re‑offending outcomes
- Demonstrate and promote professional values, including integrity, accountability and ethical conduct aligned with CSI and organisational standards
- Support business unit operations through the delivery of inmate training programs, including Inmate Traineeships, and contribute to case management outcomes through the Work Readiness Program
- Manage resources effectively and maintain a safe and compliant work setting in accordance with Work Health and Safety legislation

Qualifications Required

- Certificate III (minimum) in Sports Turf Management,



Horticulture (Parks and Gardens or Landscaping), or another relevant trade qualification. Trade qualifications in construction‑related disciplines may also be considered where relevant to the role.
- Current Certificate III in Correctional Practice or willing to obtain within 12 months
- Current NSW Drivers Licence and preparedness to drive a vehicle while performing the role

Successful candidates are provided with paid training to undertake Certificate III in Correctional Practice at an allocated Corrective Services Academy training facility.

Essential Requirements

- Proven post‑trade experience
- Experience which demonstrates the ability to meet the key accountabilities and focus capabilities as detailed in the role description
- Ability and willingness to work across varying trades as required

What We Offer

- Stable NSW Government employment
- Structured training and development
- Career progression opportunities
- Meaningful leadership experience
- Supportive team environment
- Opportunity to apply your trade skills in a unique operational setting
- Regional lifestyle benefits with easy access to Dubbo and the Central West
- A challenging and rewarding career
- Flexible, autonomous work environment
- Competitive pay and conditionsTraining and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities
- Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs

Inclusion and Diversity

Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit. We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups. To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit Inclusion and diversity on the DCJ website.

Applications close

11:59pm, Sunday 16th August 2026

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📌 Trade Overseer - Ground Maintenance - Macquarie Correctional Centre (Arthurville)
🏢 Nsw Department Of Communities And Justice
📍 Arthurville