Work Experience

Work Experience Placements are a great opportunity to learn from our employees, gain new skills and on-the-job experience. Council’s Work Experience program is for students who are seeking experience in an aspiring career field or investigating a career field of interest. Work experience opportunities are generally unpaid and must be supported as part of a recognised program or course of study. This includes:

School work experience programs;
TAFE work experience programs or compulsory work placements; and
University work experience programs or compulsory work placements.

Work experience requests are currently offered in May and November. Expressions of interest open in April for May placements and October for November placements. Please do not submit requests outside of these times unless you are a University student.

You can express your interest in undertaking work experience with Council by completing our Work Experience Form. Once you've submitted your expression of interest, we'll be in touch to discuss available opportunities.

Our Program:

Council offers two types of work experience programs:

1. A week in the life

Which enables students who have a particular interest in a field and would like to spend a week in that particular team. Council offers the following individual areas:

	Engineering	Marketing & Comms	IT	Library	Art Gallery	Laboratory	Workshop / Carpentry	Parks & Gardens
Suitable for students with an interest in:	Maths, physics, chemistry	Journalism and writing	Technology hardware, software, coding and project related initiatives	Books and technology	The Arts, community development and civic pride	Science, in particular chemistry or biology	Vehicles, logistics or carpentry	Gardening and landscaping

If there is a particular career or area of Council of interest to you that isn’t listed above, please email us at learninganddevelopment@tamworth.nsw.gov.au to determine if there might be something available in that area.

2. An explore your options program

Which offers students an insight into some of the careers that are available at Council and the opportunity to have exposure to multiple areas across the week. This is for students who don’t have a clear direction on a career path. You can use the drop-down boxes to see what a typical week might look like. Council offers the following streams:

Engineering

This stream would suit students interested in maths, science and problem solving. Get technical experience across a number of engineering disciplines, gaining an understanding of how things are built through real world examples.

Explore your options - Engineering sample week
Day	Time	Engineering Discipline
Monday	9.00am - 12.00pm	Traffic Engineering. This team looks after traffic generation modelling and traffic intersection analysis.
Monday	12.30pm - 3.30pm	Stormwater Engineering. This team looks after the design of urban and rural stormwater drainage infrastructure.
Tuesday	9.00am - 12.00pm	Development Engineering. This team looks after the development process for Council's roads and drainage.
Tuesday	12.30pm - 3.30pm	Project Delivery. This team looks after tenders/contracts and project management for construction activities.
Wednesday	9.00am - 12.00pm	Water Strategy. This team looks after water and sewer reticulation modelling and Council's capital works program.
Wednesday	12.30pm - 3.30pm	Water Operations. This team looks after Council's water and wastewater treatment facilities and reticulation systems.
Thursday	9.00am - 12.00pm	Civil Construction. This team undertakes stormwater drainage construction, road construction, kerb and gutter construction, water and wastewater infrastructure.
Thursday	12.30pm - 3.30pm	Operations. This team looks after road design and construction.
Friday	9.00am - 12.00pm	Engineering Design
Friday	12.30pm - 3.30pm	Engineering Exercise

On the tools - Trades based

This stream would suit students interested in machinery, tools and how things work. Get hands on experience and apply your attention to detail and problem solving skills in our trades based stream.

Explore your options - On the tools - sample week
Day	Time	Trade
Monday	9.00am - 3.30pm	Mechanics. This team looks after the maintenance, diagnostics, repair and servicing of Council's plant and vehicle fleet and sundry plant and equipment.
Tuesday	9.00am - 3.30pm	Stores. This team looks after Council's warehouses and procurement processes and the supply of plant and equipment.
Wednesday	9.00am - 3.30pm	Building Services. This team looks after the maintenance and repair of Council's corporate buildings and premises.
Thursday	9.00am - 3.30pm	Electrician. This team looks after the maintenance and repair of electrical systems associated with the supply of Council's water and wastewater services.
Friday	9.00am - 3.30pm	Fitter Machinist. This team looks after the maintenance, repair and installation of mechanical equipment used within Council's water and wastewater assets.

Unfortunately Council is unable to accommodate work experience requests at our Marsupial Park, Paws for Life Animal Shelter, the Pound and AELEC facilities.

Work Experience Request Details

Please include why you wish to gain work experience in this area in the relevant area of the Work Experience Form. Consider what interests you about doing work experience in this area of Council and what you hope to gain from the experience?

Medical Conditions

Please let us know if you have or have had any medical conditions, including a physical condition, injury or psychological condition, which may affect your capacity to carry out the requirements of the work experience placement. We ask you this so we can keep you as safe as possible in the workplace.
We also ask if you consider yourself to have a disability, impairment or long term condition. If you answer yes to this, we just require some further details so you can let us know what support or adjustments you may require.

The Application Process:

1. Submitting your work experience form	2. People and Culture review	3. Relevant business unit review	4. Outcome of review advised
Upon submission of the Work Experience Form, it will be forwarded to Council’s People & Culture Division.	The People & Culture Division will review all requests and may ask for additional detail if your form hasn’t been filled out in its entirety. Your request will then be forwarded to the relevant business unit within Council for their consideration.	After consideration, both the student and their Careers Advisor will be notified of the outcome via email.	If your request is able to be accommodated, you will be e-introduced to your Supervisor for the period you’re completing work experience at Council. They can then discuss expectations in regards to hours of work, what to wear if required (i.e. steel cap boots for example) among other things.

Express your interest

Work experience requests are currently offered in May and November.
Expressions of interest open in April for May placements and October for November placements.
Please do not submit requests outside of these times unless you are a University student.
All requests for work experience must be submitted online via our form. Emailed requests will not be accepted.
Placements depend on the host team’s operational requirements and availability at any given time.
Work experience placements are offered in May and November only.
Expressions of interest open from April for May placements, October for November placements.
An Expression of Interest form is required at least 4 weeks prior to requested placement dates.
Last-minute applications will not be accepted. Please do not submit requests outside of these times unless you are a University student.
A copy of your school/institution's public liability insurance details is required.
In accordance with Child Safe legislative requirements, Council requires written parental consent to be provided for students under the age of 18 prior to the placement commencing. Parents must sign the Student Placement Record Form for students under 18.

If you are a student at a NSW Public School or External VET (EVET) provider it is a requirement of the NSW Department of Education that a Student Placement Record (SPR) is completed. It is the responsibility of the learning institute and/or applicant to ensure that this is completed prior to attending a work experience placement.