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Experience the excitement of building a career in an evolving construction business where people and performance make amazing things happen.  

This is Wamarra

Taking its name from the Wiradjuri word meaning ‘to build,’ Wamarra is a majority Aboriginal-owned, self-performing civil contractor working across Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. 

Wamarra specialises in comprehensive construction services, managing a diverse portfolio of complex projects and services. Our distinctive focus lies in fostering long-term, meaningful employment opportunities and skill development for our First Nations workforce. 

Our experience in construction spans earthworks, pavements – roads and car parks, hard and soft landscaping, carpentry and site establishment, drainage and concreting. 

The role: 

You will play a pivotal role in overseeing our landscape construction projects as well as the ongoing maintenance of these projects once constructed, right throughout VIC.

This is a mobile role, requiring flexibility with travel around metro & regional VIC, and even into regional NSW.

This role combines expertise in landscape construction management, maintenance supervision and team leadership to deliver high-quality landscape projects whilst maintaining existing sites to client's standards.

Your impact: 

Your addition to our team will ensure our client's needs are met and the ongoing maintenance of our projects are kept to the absolute of highest standards.

Your every day: 

• Program management across multiple projects in both metro Melbourne & regional VIC.
• Building and maintaining robust client relationships in the landscape sector.
• Managing HSEQ compliance and fostering a strong safety culture across our sites.
• Managing quality assurance across our landscape & maintenance projects.
• Ongoing support & training to our workforce - ensuring development is supported and achieved with our teams.

Who are you? 

• Proven track record within commercial landscaping & civil construction.
• Minimum of 7+ years within the commercial landscape space.
• Experience managing and delivering landscape projects in excess of $5mil.
• Cert III in Landscape Construction and/or Cert III in Horticulture.
• Relevant tickets & licenses needed to fulfil this mobile role.

A Career with us

Wamarra is an equal opportunity employer. Our teams are made up of individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, with aligned ways of working, enabling us to overcome any challenge, advance our careers and outperform competitors.  

Staff perks and benefits offered to build an engaged and talented workforce include: 

• Tailored professional development opportunities for career advancement.  
• Opportunities to work on a wide variety of exciting and complex projects. 
• Annual social calendar of activities and events.
• A corporate social responsibility program for the chance to support not-for-profits and social enterprises.
• Bonus leave days including your birthday off and a day of wellbeing.
• Hundreds of discounts at leading retailers with our employee perk program. 
• Access to free curated health and wellness content Bupa corporate healthcare benefits Access to 24/7 confidential support from a nurse or wellbeing expert.

Social responsibility 

We are a socially responsible business – it’s part of our DNA and who we are as an Aboriginal-owned and operated business. 

Our aim is the integration and longevity of Aboriginal people in civil construction projects and industry. That means we lead with an awareness of our cultural values and Aboriginal aspirations and invest in Aboriginal people and organisations that support meaningful careers and the sustained livelihood of Aboriginal people and their families. 

We are an inclusive workplace and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, veterans, and individuals from diverse cultural and life experiences are encouraged to apply.