Ranger | Mackay region, QLD | Explore Careers Australia

Location:

Mackay, QLD

Closing:

Closing in 9 hours

The Opportunity
This is a unique opportunity to establish yourself as a Marine Park Ranger. You’ll work hard to preserve and assist the delivery of annual work programs including Compliance, fire and pest management, operational and visitor infrastructure and maintenance projects across marine and island protected estate in the Whitsunday/Mackay Coast area of the Southern Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.

A purpose and a challenge that matter

You’ll work hard to preserve and manage the reef’s marine and island parks and culturally significant sites. You will lead staff ensuring their training and mentoring and developing working relationships with first nations people.

Diverse, interesting work and experiences

You’ll love the diversity, flexibility, and autonomy here. One day you’ll be educating visitors and conducting fire management; the next, diving to collect samples, operating a vessel or writing reports. You’ll do varied, stimulating work, and your office view will be stunning. Your strong leadership and communication skills will assist you in tackling evolving priorities. Outdoor duties such as vessel patrols, seabird surveys and island health checks will balance indoor work like compiling taskings and assessments of staff.

Opportunities to learn, discover and grow

You’ll be dealing with both familiar and complex issues daily. This will give you the chance to test, refine and build on your practical and leadership skills constantly.

You’ll learn so much every day as you grow your conservation and resource management skills. Your development will be supported using a wide range of online training programs. In fact, you’ll see there are significant progression opportunities to fast track your career towards Senior Ranger, due of the breadth of both marine and terrestrial activities you’ll undertake and our enviable funding position which allows us to deliver new and exciting projects.

A collaborative, innovative environment

As a leader you’ll form invaluable professional relationships with Traditional Owners, various commonwealth and state agencies and stakeholders. You’ll also be dedicated to upholding a positive, safe, diverse, and inclusive culture. Together, we achieve more.

Working Regional

You and your ranger mates will be largely self-reliant. You’ll regularly undertake offshore patrols by vessel or light aircraft to conduct inspections and investigations at islands, reefs, and remote locations across the area. You’ll need the flexibility to participate in remote offshore operations and be the solver of marine park and island protected area management issues; you’re the go-to person! Off the clock, you’ll be spoilt for choice of activities, with the spectacular Great Barrier Reef and beautiful coastline at your doorstep; diving, camping, and fishing are staple activities for us here.

You’ll need:

Resilience, pragmatism, tenacity, and confidence in a regional or remote setting
Courageous and ethical leadership, advanced communication skills
The ability to form trusted relationships with both First Nations partners and others
Organisational, project management and teamwork skills
Compliance and enforcement skills
A strong understanding of conservation and natural resource management, marine operations and workplace health and safety (both physical and psychological)
Administration and computer skills

To be considered you must

apply online at www.smartjobs.qld.gov.au
Include your current resume (of no more than 4 pages).
provide a short, written statement (of no more than 2 pages) explaining why you are interested in the role and what strengths you will bring relevant to the “What we are looking for” attributes.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.

Job Ad Reference: QLD/539354/24

Closing Date: Thursday, 1 February 2024