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Maintenance & Logistics Officer

Sydney Dogs & Cats Home

We are seeking a Maintenance and Logistics Officer for an immediate start to support our organisation's Leadership Team with our business-as-usual logistical requirements and our upcoming transitional and relocation projects.

This is a new role for an initial casual appointment with the possibility for ongoing work.

About us

The Sydney Dogs and Cats Home (SD&CH) is highly respected within the animal welfare sector, providing shelter, food and veterinary care to lost, homeless and abandoned animals, primarily dogs and cats, until a time when such animals can either be reunited with their owners or found a new, suitable home.

SD&CH objectives are to:

  1. Provide companion animals in our care with best practice care
  2. Provide engagement programs that benefit companion animals, SDCH & the community
  3. Attract and retain mission motivated talent
  4. Sustainable financial, systems and resources

About you

Ideally, you'll bring proven experience in a maintenance, logistics and transportation role and be able to provide evidence of the following role requirements:

  • White Card
  • Good handyman skills and experience
  • Police Clearance is essential
  • Friendly disposition an excellent customer service skills
  • Driver's Licence (C) current, clean manual licence
  • Be a courteous and considerate driver
  • Confidence in driving a large van and/or towing a trailer
  • Good time management and communication skills
  • Sound driving skills and the ability to cope in traffic
  • Physically fit and able to lift 10kg
  • Good animal handling skills
  • Ability to work autonomously

SDCH provides access to a work vehicle and a basic tool kit, but the Maintenance & Logistics Officer can provide their own tools if they wish as required

Main Purpose of role

A Maintenance & Logistics Officer is responsible for delivering all requests prioritised, approved, allocated and scheduled by the Operations Manager for maintenance, logistics and animal transportation.

A Maintenance and Logistics Officer will work with the Operations Manager to determine the priority of the work required and if the tasks can be allocated to a member of the volunteer Maintenance Team or if a tradesperson will need to be called.

A Maintenance & Logistics Officer will have some handyman skills that can assist with fixing small maintenance jobs across all SDCH sites including Carlton, Strathfield, Austral and Kurnell.

The workload for the role will be variable, depending on the work required and will be prioritised, approved, allocated and scheduled by the Operations Manager on an ongoing casual basis in negotiation and agreement with a Maintenance and Logistics Officer.

Key Responsibilities

Coordinate, implement, deliver, maintain, improve, evaluate, and report against all or the following items in relation to the relocation project:

  • Action all maintenance requests received via the Operations Manager
  • Coordinate all maintenance requests
  • Work with the Volunteer Coordinator to ensure safely manage volunteer members of the Maintenance Team
  • Understand the skill set of the Maintenance Team members so as to be able to comfortably
  • Determine when outside tradespeople need to be called in
  • Action all transport and logistics requests
  • Coordinate all deliveries and storage item requests
  • Report weekly on the status of all maintenance, transport, logistics, deliveries, and storage requests to the Operations Manager, Leadership Team, general Manager and the WHS Committee as required

A position description is attached.

How to apply

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