Wollondilly Shire Council provides opportunities to support the community to gain work experience for career development when possible.
We receive a large number of requests for work experience, so our work experience opportunities are aimed mainly at students currently studying.
Work experience opportunities are available in the following areas of Council:
Administration
Animal Holding Facility
Building Approvals
Surveying
Business Administration
Child Care
Civil Construction
Customer Servic…
While most of us have less control over our workplaces than we do over our homes, our commitment to reducing the damage to the environment should not stop when we get to work.
Everyday at work we make many decisions about water, waste & energy. Therefore, the workplace provides us with a great opportunity to become an agent of change toward sustainability and lead and support the greening of our work cultures and the means of production.
Join the Green Team
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If you have to use the car, those regular trips to work, the market or school can be done with others and you'll have more fun, use less petrol, and save money.
If you have to use the car, regular trips we take to work, the market or school can be shared with others (co-workers, neighbours, other students) to reduce our car use. Express lanes, car pool parking spots at work, and online resources to connect you with other people travelling your way (not to mention increasing fuel costs) mak…
The production of paper uses trees, chemicals, energy (greenhouse gases) and water. About one-third of the garbage we throw away is paper. Let's avoid, reduce, re-use and recycle at work too!
About Saving Paper and ForestsThe ecological footprint of a single newspaper was once described as taking up the area covered by all the sheets of the newspaper laid side by side, for the period of a year.
A tonne of paper consumes approximately 20 full-grown trees, over 90,000 litres of water, ov…
Nutrient recycling is the foundation of life. Today's organic waste is tomorrow's lunch, so look after those worms and compost piles.
Much of the journey toward sustainability involves us learning how to replenish nature as effectively as we have plundered her. Hence, establishing and maintaining the "food waste to compost to soil to food to food waste" cycle is both an efficient practice and a glimpse of the cycles we must learn to respect all around us.
How to do it now!…
Use your recycled printer paper twicePaper, and printing on it, cost money. It consumes resources and could often be avoided.
A tonne of paper consumes approximately 20 full-grown trees, over 90,000 litres of water, over 1.2 tonnes of coal and an assortment of chemicals. The greenhouse gas emissions of this tonne of paper are approximately 8 tonnes (with a tonne of recycled paper emitting approximately 2 tonnes of greenhouse gases), according to the Federal Government's 2001 Green Office G…
Young job seekers and students who live in the Wollondilly Local Government Area are invited to apply for a Local Skills Ready program that will kick start their careers, with more local opportunities than ever available in 2022.
My Gateway, in partnership with Wollondilly Shire Council, is recruiting for 15 positions to be based at Council, with additional positions made possible thanks to funding from the Commonwealth and NSW Governments’ Bushfire Local Economic Recovery Package.
The roles a…
After a substantial amount of work, including restoration of some original features that were uncovered along the way, the Shire Hall Early Works program has been completed and we are moving into the next phase. Council has recently engaged a builder to construct a new kitchen and toilet amenities. These will be located on the library side of the main hall. The Council meeting chambers will also be relocated from the current Administration Building to the space formerly occupied by the Family Da…
Read more about "Shire Hall Update - Kitchen & Amenities"...Join or create a work team focused on dreaming up and implementing schemes to reduce the impact your workplace has on the environment.
About "Green Teams"The understanding that workplaces have an important role to play in moving us towards sustainability is relatively new.
Accordingly, many businesses and organisations remain unsure of how to put this into practice. Creating or joining committees, ideas groups, and Green Teams to focus on and implement pro-environmental change at…
Our significant road repair program is on track, with reconstruction, heavy patching and drainage work across the Shire, and more works planned for the coming months to address priority issues. Our advocacy for roads funding is also gaining traction, with recent funding announcements giving us more resources to tackle the extensive road repairs needed across the Shire following our wettest year on record. The Wollondilly Cultural Precinct is being strongly utilised with the upgraded Shire Hall n…
Read more about "6 Month Progress Report on the Delivery Program"...All Wollondilly business owners and their employees are invited to enjoy a free breakfast, find out more about health and wellbeing, and celebrate their contribution to the region’s economy for R U OK? Day this year.
The Dilly Business Brekkie will be hosted by Wollondilly Shire Council, Picton Chamber of Commerce, The Office of Judy Hannan MP and The Rapid Relief Team.
It will run from 6am to 10am on Thursday 14 September at Victoria Park, Menangle Street, Picton and is an opportunity for loc…
Organisations have significant buying power. Swinging that power around to make the best use of our limited resources is easier than ever.
About Green Office SuppliesOur workplaces provide great opportunities to make a real impact through our purchasing choices. Imagine the difference it would make if all organisations purchased renewable energy, used 100 per cent post-consumer recycled paper and recycled or refilled their thousands of printer cartridges.
Often the shift required is minimal…
Energy conservation at work saves resources, slows climate change and leaves the boss with more money for your bonus!
About Cutting Down EnergyThe cost of energy is rising and the effects of pollution increasing.
Many people waste energy at work in ways they would never consider doing at home. People leave their computers on overnight, leave rooms with the lights on, don't adjust the setting on their equipment to save power and as a consequence, tonnes of greenhouse gases are emitted.…
Applications Approved in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.59 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act and Clause 97 of the Regulation, Notification is given that the undermentioned developments have recently been granted. Any public submissions received were carefully considered by Wollondilly Shire Council as part of the assessment of the subject application. Details of the applications and a copy of the consent together with any conditions attached is available for public vi…
Read more about "June 2024 Applications Approved"...Travel to meetings and to work with your co-workers. It's efficient, it saves energy and it slows global warming.
Reduce Carbon EmissionsThe impact of our carbon emissions is causing increased global warming and our modes of transport (especially the car) contribute significantly to these emissions. By 'car pooling' with your co-workers, you'll immediately halve your emissions in one easy step.
This will also cut business costs and allow you to spend more 'face time…
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