Parks Supervisor

Why work with us?

At Council, we’re proud of our region. We collaborate with community to achieve truly sustainable outcomes, enhance our enviable lifestyle, and create award-winning places and spaces that are uniquely Sunshine Coast. So, if you love it here as much as we do, and you want to shape our region for the future – you’ll want to join our team!

With the vision to be Australia’s most sustainable region -Connected. Liveable. Thriving, our region is a model of sustainability, where caring for our environment, creating vibrant communities and growing our local economy is a way of life.

About the Role

Parks & Gardens is responsible for the care, management and operation of public open space, foreshore reserves and recreational areas, supporting both active and passive recreation while preserving natural landscape and environmental features.

As Parks Supervisor, you will coordinate and lead day‑to‑day horticultural, landscaping and arboriculture activities across your allocated area. This field‑based leadership role oversees the delivery of construction, maintenance and open‑space enhancement works, ensuring quality standards, forward planning, safe work practices and responsive customer service. You will guide, motivate and develop team members while identifying solutions to site‑based challenges and contributing to operational planning.

Key Responsibilities

• Supervise horticulture, landscaping and arboriculture activities, ensuring planned, systematic and high‑quality work delivery.
• Lead parks/gardens construction and maintenance activities while motivating and supporting team capability development.
• Identify and resolve worksite challenges, adopting alternative techniques to achieve optimal outcomes.
• Evaluate and action service requests and public enquiries, ensuring timely and responsive customer service.

About you

You bring strong supervisory experience and the ability to lead, motivate and develop operational teams in a dynamic field environment. You have relevant technical expertise in horticulture, landscaping or arboriculture supported by formal qualifications or extensive experience, and you maintain a practical, solution‑focused approach.

You demonstrate high‑level awareness of safety obligations and environmental responsibilities, with the ability to ensure compliance with WHS, environmental protection requirements and Council procedures.

You are confident in making decisions, guiding work planning, and maintaining high standards of quality, productivity and customer service. You bring strong communication skills and the ability to support staff through change.

You take pride in contributing to high‑quality community spaces and value teamwork, integrity and continuous improvement in field operations.

Pre-Employment Medical Required

Essential to your success is physical agility and the level of fitness, strength and dexterity to carry out labouring and frequent heavy lifting & bending. As such, appointment to this position is subject to completion of a pre-employment medical assessment.

Our Culture & Employee Benefits

Council is committed to creating an inclusive, culturally diverse, healthy, skilled and dedicated workplace culture. As an employee you will enjoy a range of benefits and working styles to suit you:

• Wellbeing: Your wellbeing is important to us therefore we offer a number of different initiatives such as discounted health related memberships, fitness passport, employee assistance program and development opportunities. 
• Flexibility: We know it is important to balance life and work, therefore we offer flexible working including a hybrid WFH model that help you be your best.
• Extras: Those extras make a difference therefore we offer salary packaging options on novated leases, superannuation, smartphones and devices.

How to apply

Your written application should include:

• A 1-2 page cover letter demonstrating your ability to fulfil the mandatory and desirable requirements on the Position Profile. Keep the key responsibilities in mind when addressing this criteria; and
• A current resume or curriculum vitae.

Once you have these two documents ready, click ‘Apply Now’ and follow the prompts to complete your application.

Further Information

Helpful information to assist you in completing your application is available on the Sunshine Coast Council website.

To learn more about Council’s vision and projects, you can view the Corporate Plan 2025-2030.

For specific enquiries contact Jon Presswell during business hours on 0418 711 052.

We're working hard to create an inclusive workplace that reflects the diverse community we serve. If you require adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please reach out to the Recruitment Team [email protected].

At Sunshine Coast Council, we embrace differences in gender, age, ethnicity, race, cultural background including First Nations, disability, religion and sexual orientation. To deliver the best service to our region we want a workforce that reflects the diverse community that we serve. Sunshine Coast Council strongly encourages all suitable applicants to apply for this role.