Burials & Plaques Attendant

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

The Regulatory Response Services Branch plays a vital role in ensuring the safety, amenity and wellbeing of the Sunshine Coast community. The branch delivers essential services that support residents while preserving important community spaces and maintaining high standards of public service.

As a Burials and Plaques Attendant, you will play an important role in delivering respectful, efficient, and compliant burial, memorial and cemetery services across the Sunshine Coast region. Working as part of a high-performing team, you will help ensure burial and memorial activities are carried out to a high standard while contributing to the presentation, maintenance and continual improvement of Council's cemeteries.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct burial, interment and memorial installation activities.
• Prepare graves and ash sites, including excavation and site setup.
• Maintain cemetery grounds through horticultural and grave care works.
• Operate and maintain plant, machinery and equipment safely and effectively.

About you

• You are a reliable and respectful professional who can work confidently in a sensitive cemetery environment, demonstrating empathy, professionalism and attention to detail.
• You have experience operating machinery and equipment in a civil, parks, landscaping, cemetery or similar operational environment and take pride in delivering quality outcomes.
• You are safety focused, with a strong commitment to following procedures, maintaining high workplace standards, and contributing to a healthy and safe team culture.
• You enjoy working collaboratively, communicating effectively with colleagues, funeral directors and customers, while delivering customer-focused services that reflect Council's values.

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.

Criminal History Check Required

Appointment to this position is subject to the satisfactory completion of a Criminal History Check.

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 which include but are not limited to:

• 9-day fortnight - to support your enjoyment of the lifestyle benefits Sunshine Coast has to offer.
• Salary Packaging
• Pay you 17.5% loading when taking annual leave (4 weeks entitlement per year)

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 Tye Naismith during business hours on 0455 333 061.

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.