Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time
Salary: $85,787 - $98,651
Grade: Cog2B
Occupation: Prison and corrective services
Location: Barwon South West - Greater Geelong
Reference: VG/4559-AUG26
The Department of Justice and Community Safety is seeking an Industry Officer to provide a critical role within Corrections Victoria Prison Industries.
About the Business Unit
Marngoneet Correctional Centre / Karreenga is a medium security facility that houses a mix of sentenced and remand men and is located 6km north-west of Lara, 20km from the centre of Geelong and about 70km from Melbourne. The role of the facility is to contain men in custody safely, securely and humanely, focusing on the individual needs of the men with the aim of providing a successful transition back into the community or on their continued journey through the prison system. The facility has a strong focus on achieving positive outcomes and provides a range of engaged services. Our highly skilled workforce provides supervision and case management and are dedicated to enhancing opportunities to strengthen prisoner pathways.
The Vocational Services Team consists of the three key portfolios, education, programs, and industries. The role of the team is to prepare prisoners for release and to enhance post-release employment opportunities through prisoner employment, integrated on-the-job training, targeted educational opportunities, and personal development programs and activities.
About the Role
At Marngoneet Correctional Centre / Karreenga, Senior Industry Officers play a significant and important role in training and assessing prisoners in relevant accredited trade skill units according to the specific work environment. Senior Industry Officers will enter data into Oracle as part of monitoring, recording, and managing daily production processes. Industry staff are also responsible for strict adherence to food safety standards in food production areas.
The Industry Officer is part a multi-disciplinary team and is responsible for training and supervising prisoners in the prisons commercial industries and service areas. The overall objective is to provide training and employment opportunities to prisoners and to meet the commercial and service industry production goals and service requirements.
Custodial duties may include conducting searches, surveillance, observing and assessing prisoner behaviour in the trade areas, and operating a variety of security and industrial equipment, collating information, and preparing reports and management of critical incidents.
The Industry Officer reports to the Industry Supervisor and through to the Industry Manager for production processes and requirements.
Some of your duties will include:
To lear n more about this role before applying, please read the attached position description.
About you
To be successful in this role, you will have:
Qualifications/requirements
How to Apply
Please click the Apply button on this advertisement. Applications should include a resume and covering letter. Attachments can be uploaded in .doc, .docx, .pdf, .txt or .rtf formats.
The successful candidate will be required to undergo pre-employment checks which may include a Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC) and misconduct screening.
If you require adjustments to the recruitment and selection process, or require an alternative format to any of the application material, please don't hesitate to get in touch with the contact person listed on this ad.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
CHILD SAFE STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT:
The Department of Justice and Community Safety is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and young people. We seek to prevent harm of any kind impacting children and young people and have zero tolerance for racism, child abuse and inequality. Children and young people's rights, relationships, identity, and culture must be recognised and respected, their voices heard, and their concerns acted upon. We aim to foster a culturally safe, child safe and child friendly environment for all children and young people we have contact with, deliver services to, or are impacted by our work.