Natural Areas Team Member

🌿🔥 Natural Areas Team Member 🔥🌿

Get paid to work outdoors and protect the bush

📍 Marsden Depot
🕡 Mon–Fri | 6:30am–3:35pm
💰 $39/hr + super

🌱 The Gig

If sitting at a desk isn’t your thing and you’d rather be out in the bush making a real difference, this one’s for you. As a Natural Areas Team Member, you’ll be hands-on maintaining Council’s natural reserves — restoring bushland, managing fire risks and helping protect native plants and wildlife. Every day’s different, the work matters, and you’ll finish early enough to actually enjoy your afternoons 🌞

🔥 What You’ll Be Doing

• 🌳 Restoring and maintaining bushland and natural areas

• 🚒 Jumping in on fire management, prescribed burns and emergency response

• 🧯 Providing Level 1 firefighting support (when qualified)

• 🦺 Working safely and looking out for your crew

• 🗺️ Updating GIS, herbicide and maintenance records

• 🤝 Working alongside a tight, supportive team who’s got your back

🧠 What You Bring

• 🌿 Experience in bushland or natural area maintenance

• 🐦 A good eye for native plants, wildlife and weeds

• 🔥 Fire management or planned burning experience

• 🗣️ Solid communication skills and a team-first attitude

• 💻 Basic computer skills (GIS experience a plus)

🎓 Tickets You’ll Need (or Get)

• 📘 Cert III in Natural Resource Management (or equivalent experience)

• 🚗 Manual C Class licence (MR a bonus)

• 🧪 ACDC licence

• 🚒 Level 1 Bushland Firefighting

• 🪚 Chainsaw Level 1

• 🩹 Senior First Aid

• 🦺 White Card

🌞 Good to Know

• 🏕️ Outdoor, remote worksites — bring your water and lunch

• 👕 PPE supplied / required

• 💉 Council-funded vaccinations

• ⏱️ Overtime opportunities depending on fire quals

⭐ You’ll Smash This Role If You’re

• 🤜🤛 A team player who looks out for others

• 🚀 Proactive, reliable and keen to learn

• ❤️ Passionate about the environment and community

🔥 Think this sounds like your kind of job? Don’t just think about it — email Sarah at sarah@findmea.com.au and get amongst it!