Description:
- Location: Beautiful Lavadia, close to Grafton in Northern NSW
- Uniform provided, daily meals & onsite parking
- Up to $8,000 relocation assistance
Serco is a place where you can grow
Join a team of 12,000+ professionals across APAC and experience a place of challenge, opportunity, and reward.
We offer lots of headroom for you to grow and flexible benefits to suit you in every stage of your life and career, including:
- Flexible salary packaging options, including novated leasing for new and used vehicles
- Benefits@Serco, which includes a great range of career support programs, wellbeing packages, and financial benefits, available through us and our selected partners, including access to Fitness Passport
- Generous employee referral program
- Share2Care 12 weeks of paid parental leave to eligible employees
Make an impact at Serco
The key purpose of the Trade Instructor - Metal Fabrication role is to deliver and evaluate a range of trade training programs for inmates, with a focus on assisting inmates in integrating successfully into the community and gaining post-release employment.
As a Trade Instructor in the Industries & Trades team, you’ll make a positive impact by:
- Supervising, coaching, training, instructing, and working with staff (inmates experience is highly desirable) to develop their work skills. Ideally, in a trade environment.
- Creating and maintaining a safe working environment for staff (inmates' experience highly desirable) and visitors to comply with Work Health & Safety legislation.
- Managing budget and resources efficiently and effectively to achieve planned outcomes.
- Ensuring quality standards of production, including completing Instruction Test Plans (ITPs).
- Delivering and understanding regulations or specific work requirements relevant to the trade area.
- Delivering and understanding of Occupational Health & Safety requirements and their application within the context of a workshop and/or industry environment.
- Contributing to teamwork by working collaboratively with others to achieve the goals and objectives of the Centre.
- Delivering the highest level of personal integrity and ethical behaviour.
Serco is a place for you
You’re a hands-on leader with a trade background, passionate about mentoring others and creating real change. You’re adaptable, values-driven, and thrive in environments where teamwork, safety, and structure are essential.
To be successful in this role, you’ll have:
- Certificate III or IV in Engineering – Fabrication or similar
- Certificate IV in Training & Assessment (or willingness to obtain within the first year)
- Certificate III Correctional Practice (or willingness to obtain within the first year)
- Minimum 2- 5 years’ experience in metal fabrication or similar
- Strong understanding of WHS practices and tool/equipment safety protocols
- Ability to supervise and train adults in a secure environment
As a fast-growing and successful global company, Serco’s services span across the areas of justice, defence, space, customer services, health, and urban mobility.
In joining us, you’ll be part of a highly supportive culture with trusted leaders that will help you achieve your goals.
Please note:
• This position carries trust and responsibility. A comprehensive probity assessment, including a Federal Police Check, is part of the selection process for this role.
About Clarence Correctional Centre
Opened in mid-2020, this 1,700-bed state-of-the-art facility is the largest correctional Centre in Australia.
Located on the beautiful NSW North Coast approx. 6 hours' drive from Sydney and 3.5 hours from Brisbane our region offers rainforests, epic headlands, sand dunes and some of the best Australian beaches with a variety of multi-cultural cafes, restaurants, and friendly community towns.
Are you ready to do important work that really matters?
At Serco, we bring together the right people, technology, and partners to create impactful solutions that address some of the world’s most urgent and complex challenges.
We seek and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and cultures, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTQI+, veterans, and people with disability.
By joining Serco, you’ll have access to Employee Networks led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
Impact a better future at Serco