Qualified Turf Operator

• Full Time, Permanent role located in Parkville


• Monday - Friday, 6.30am - 3pm


• A paid, rostered day off each month

Serco is a place where you can grow

Your impact makes a meaningful difference, and we're committed to supporting your professional and personal goals.

You’ll also have access to flexible benefits designed to support your wellbeing and growth, including:

• Supportive team environment and trusted leadership


• Opportunities to develop your turf management expertise


• Work across AFL, soccer and cricket sporting surfaces


• Contribute to high-quality sporting facilities in the community


• Flexible approach to work-life management


• Be part of work that makes a meaningful difference

Make an impact at Serco

As a Qualified Turf Operator based at Parkville – Royal Park North, you’ll help maintain and present high-quality sports fields, cricket wickets and training facilities. Working with our Sports Turf team, you’ll apply your specialist turf maintenance skills across a range of sporting surfaces. You’ll play an important role in delivering safe, efficient and high-quality turf operations that support training and competition.

As a Qualified Turf Operator in the Sports Turf team, you’ll make a positive impact by:

• Managing routine and specialist sports field maintenance activities


• Preparing and maintaining cricket wickets and practice nets


• Maintaining AFL, soccer, cricket and other sporting surfaces


• Operating and maintaining specialised sports turf equipment


• Monitoring turf health and identifying maintenance requirements


• Supporting seasonal turf renovation, recovery and irrigation programs

Serco is a place for you

You could be a great fit if you have:

• Strong knowledge of sports turf maintenance practices


• Experience preparing and maintaining cricket wickets


• Experience maintaining AFL, soccer and cricket playing surfaces


• A current Driver Licence and relevant turf qualification or equivalent experience


• The ability to safely operate specialised turf maintenance equipment


• A strong commitment to workplace safety and continuous improvement

In joining us, you’ll be part of a highly supportive culture with trusted leaders that will help you achieve your goals. Here, you will appreciate a flexible approach to work-life that comes with working at a company with long-term government-backed contracts.

Are you ready to do important work that really matters?

At Serco, we bring together the right people, the right technology, and the right partners to create impactful solutions that address some of the world’s most urgent and complex challenges.

We focus on serving governments all over the globe. The work we do has touched the lives of millions in Australia and New Zealand and offers unique opportunities to leverage your skills across our core capabilities in Health, Defence, Maritime, Justice, and Community Services.

We seek and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and cultures including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGTBQI+, 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.

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Impact a better future at Serco.