Overview
Salary: $59,511 – $79,626 pa. + super
Work Type: Ongoing, Full-time position
Reference: VG/1001191
Carry out a range of day to day duties and park maintenance to continually ensure our parks are kept at their highest standards!
- Be part of a supportive and motivated team culture based in Creswick
- Competitive Salary + Rostered Weekend Allowance (if eligible) + Superannuation
- Enjoy a healthy work life balance with flexible working options.
About Parks Victoria
Parks Victoria’s vision is to be a world-class parks service, ensuring healthy parks for healthy people. It is a statutory authority with responsibility for managing an expanding and diverse estate covering more than 4 million hectares, or about 17 per cent, of Victoria.
About the role
Our Rangers are key to Parks Victoria providing exceptional experiences for visitors to Victoria’s parks and reserves. As a Ranger, you are responsible for the on-ground management of Parks Victoria’s estate, consistent with organisational priorities, policies and procedures, ensuring that people can enjoy the outdoors and protecting the things that make our parks and reserves so special.
We’re looking for someone with:
- Relevant qualifications and skills for the on-ground management of the Parks Victoria estate, such as environmental science, natural resource management, conservation and land management, outdoor education, community engagement or carpentry or other trade.
- Demonstrated experience delivering routine and moderately complex on-ground services and projects under general supervision and as part of a team to achieve agreed outcomes.
- Strong interpersonal skills and excellent verbal communication, including the ability to explain concepts to people of different backgrounds and to engage constructively with colleagues and stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to work as part of a team, and contribute to a safe, respectful, and inclusive team environment.
If you don’t meet every criteria in the position description, please don’t rule yourself out. We focus on hiring people who value inclusion, collaboration and integrity. If this resonates with you, then please apply.
Sound like you?
If this sounds like you, then we would like to hear from you. For a confidential discussion about the role, call Mark Bourke on (03) 8427 3125 or apply online!
Your application will need to include:
- Your current resume
- A cover letter
Join our innovative organisation and enjoy what you do, apply today!
Applications close: Sunday, 1 February 2026 at 11.59pm
Why Work For Us?
- Structured salary progression, including annual performance-based salary increases
- Incremental salary increases twice a year, as per the Parks Victoria Enterprise Agreement 2021
- Work life balance through hybrid working arrangements, in accordance with government guidelines
- Supportive culture to undertake personal development and secondment employment opportunities
- Commitment to wellbeing through our dedicated Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Inclusive employment support, including cultural leave entitlements
Organisational Commitments
Parks Victoria is committed to child safety and has zero tolerance for child abuse and all forms of harm to children, in accordance with the Victorian Child Safe Standards. All prospective employees to undergo a National Police Record Check and Working with Children Check prior to commencing employment.
Parks Victoria recognises diversity and inclusion is everyone’s business. We value a culture where everyone can be themselves at work, regardless of background, orientation, age or gender.
