The Details:

Are you ready to kick start your career in the mechanical trade while contributing to the essential services that keep our community moving? As a Heavy Vehicle Motor Mechanic Apprentice with Council’s Fleet team, you’ll gain hands on experience working across one of our three well equipped fleet workshops.

This apprenticeship offers the chance to learn from experienced tradespeople while working on a diverse range of Council vehicles and equipment, including:

• Trucks and light vehicles
• Heavy plant such as excavators, backhoes, graders and compactors
• Tractors, mowers, road sweepers and wood chippers

You’ll play an important role in supporting the delivery of daily preventative and corrective maintenance, ensuring our fleet remains safe, reliable and ready to serve the community.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Meet your apprenticeship training requirements, including attending scheduled training, working towards competency completion and maintaining accurate training records.
• Assist with technical inspections of vehicles, plant and equipment, including checking parts, materials and components required for repairs.
• Support workshop operations by helping deliver routine servicing, fault diagnosis and repair tasks under supervision.
• Use tools, equipment and workshop facilities safely and effectively, following all Council workplace health and safety policies, procedures and best practices.

Why This Role Matters:

Our Fleet team keeps Council’s essential services running - from waste collection and road maintenance to parks and community facilities. As an apprentice, you’ll be part of a team that takes pride in maintaining the machinery that supports our city every day.

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About you

You’re someone with a genuine interest in mechanical work and the motivation to successfully complete a Certificate III in Heavy Commercial Vehicle Mechanical Technology. You enjoy hands on learning, have a solid mechanical aptitude and are ready to build your skills in a professional workshop environment.

You’ll thrive in this role if you can:

• Work well as part of a team, communicate clearly and contribute to a positive, customer focused workplace
• Use sound written, verbal and numeracy skills to meet the training and job requirements
• Build strong working relationships and collaborate constructively with others

To be successful, you’ll also need:

• A current C Class driver’s licence (minimum provisional)
• To meet Council’s vaccination requirements for Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B and Tetanus

Why City of Moreton Bay?

What you do with your life matters. It’s the same with your career.

We’re the third-largest council in Australia and one of the fastest-growing areas. As Australia’s newest city, we’re building something that’s never been done before: a new kind of city, inspired and empowered by a new kind of council.

This is your opportunity to develop skills and experience in a truly unique place, at a truly unique point in time.

At City of Moreton Bay, we’re focused on the vital work we do today. But we’re also focused on the future. On what can be – for our city, our Council and your career.

Here’s what you’ll love about a career with us:

• See it. To build a city of the future, first, you have to see it. The polycentric city we’re building will bring greater prosperity, sustainability and affordability to our city. This is your chance to contribute to something that’s never been done before.
• Shape it. You’ll get hands-on in a rewarding career, serving and strengthening our communities for today and tomorrow. Our work is diverse, interesting and it matters – and it’s yours to shape and own.
• Live it. Contribute to the city you and your family want to live in and enjoy the lifestyle you deserve. And if you don’t live here, you’ll still find pride and connection in so many ways with our successful, resilient team.

You’ll also enjoy a range of other benefits:

• Find a better work-life balance with a nine-day fortnight.
• Negotiated salary increases locked in through our EBA - 4% in July 2026 and a further 4% in July 2027 (or CPI capped at 4.5%, whichever is greater).
• Advance your skills and career through our Study, Training And Research Scheme (STARS).
• Make your pay go further with salary packaging options on novated leases, superannuation payments, smartphones and devices.
• Prioritise your health and wellbeing with discounted health insurance, free annual flu vaccinations and our Fitness Passport Program.
• Get support when you and your family need it most with our 24/7 confidential counselling service, and Mates in Construction program.
• Our Depots have free local parking on site making for an easy commute.

Ready for a career that matters?

Join City of Moreton Bay, and help shape our city of the future.

Click on the 'Apply Now' button below to complete your online application. Please upload a current resume that demonstrates how you meet the requirements for this role.  You will also have the option to add a cover letter should you wish.

As part of the recruitment process, applicants will be required to undergo a medical and hearing assessment with an independent professional nominated by Council, and a National Criminal History Check (all at no cost to you).

To obtain further details please contact our Careers team at careers@moretonbay.qld.gov.au. 

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See it. Shape it. Live It.

City of Moreton Bay extends across the traditional lands of the Jinibara, Kabi Kabi, and Turrbal peoples, and we acknowledge and pay respects to Traditional Custodians. We believe diversity of thought, background and experience creates better outcomes for our people and communities, and we strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people of all ages, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.