Environmental Health Officer
Job No:
BYR1023
Location:
Mullumbimby, NSW
About the opportunity
Looking to combine meaningful work in environmental health with an unbeatable coastal lifestyle?
Join Byron Shire Council as an Environmental Health Officer and help protect one of Australia’s most unique and vibrant communities. From food safety and public health to environmental protection and development advice, this is a diverse, hands-on role where no two days are the same.
Whether you’re early in your career or an experienced EHO, this dual-graded position (Grade 8–9) offers the opportunity to grow, step up, and build your expertise in a supportive and collaborative team. This role involves inspections, investigations, assessments, and stakeholder engagement to ensure compliance with relevant legislation and Council policies.
This role is offered as a fixed term position, until April 2027. Possibility for extension.
What you'll be doing
- Conduct inspections across food businesses, public health risks, and environmental issues
- Investigate complaints and work with the community to achieve positive outcomes
- Assess development applications and provide expert environmental health advice
- Contribute to local policies and environmental health initiatives
- Engage with residents, businesses, and stakeholders to promote safe practices
What you bring
- Tertiary qualifications (or near completion) in Environmental Health, Environmental Science, Public Health, or similar
- Knowledge of environmental health legislation, standards and guidelines
- Experience, or the demonstrated capability to undertake, inspections, investigations, and assessments related to environmental health activities
- Strong communication skills and a customer-focused mindset
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a dynamic environment
- A proactive and collaborative approach
Position Description here: Download the Environmental Health Officer Position Description
We offer:
- A fixed term, full-time position (35 hours per week), until April 2027. Possibility for extension.
- Salary and Conditions will be in accordance with the NSW Local Government (State) Award with an appointment at a salary in the range of $70,450 to $97,686 per annum (dependent upon skills and experience)
- Note: The rates above are for the 25/26 Financial Year. There is a 4% increase in pay rates from the first full pay period to commence on or after 1 July 2026.
- 12% superannuation, education and training support, flexible work hours, fitness passport and an attractive salary packaging scheme.
Byron Shire Council has a high performance, collaborative culture. We are a growth-oriented organisation and value individuals who are driven to succeed and exceed expectations. We like to focus on understanding how a potential candidates talents and strengths align with the role they are interested in. Working in Local Government and for Byron Shire Council provides opportunities to grow in the direction that you aspire.
Other benefits include:
- Career development and training opportunities
- Attractive salary packaging scheme
- Employee Assistance Program (4 sessions per year)
- Fitness Passport
- Health and Wellbeing days
- Flexible work hours
We believe in diversity, inclusion and equality and are committed to ensuring that our workplaces are a reflection of our community. We recognise the benefits that diversity and inclusion brings, and in turn encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities and identities to apply for our vacancies.
We are open to discussing flexible working arrangements and encourage our people to explore new ways of working – including part-time, job-share or working from different locations. Everyone can ask about it.
We strongly encourage applications from people with disability and will provide reasonable adjustments in our recruitment process and in the workplace. If you need an adjustment during the recruitment process, please call or email the contact person listed above, and also advise us of your preferred method of communication.
Byron Shire Council is committed to being a child safe organisation – we respect all children and their wellbeing. We will embed Child Safe Standards into our leadership, governance and culture. We will support our staff and volunteers in their responsibilities. We will strive to keep children safe from harm and abuse.
Location: This position is based at Mullumbimby; however, Council can require you to work from other work sites as required for operational reasons.
Contact: Tim Connors, Team leader Environmental Health - (02) 6626 7189.
Closing date: 12pm (NSW time), 15 July 2026. Applications will be reviewed as they are received. Late applications will not be permitted.
Pre-Employment Screening Process:
- Reference Checks: Referees will preferably be your current or most recent supervisor and must be able to comment directly on your abilities in a work situation. If you have any objection to this action, your concerns should be raised in your application and be discussed with the Selection Panel.
- Functional Health Assessment: If applicable, the functional health assessment evaluates your physical and functional capacity against the physical demands necessary to safely perform the job for which you have applied.
- Background Screening: Background checks verify the information you have provided in your application, and where applicable, also check for relevant criminal history. Checks may also include, for example, a confirmation of your employment history, qualifications/tickets and working with children clearance.
HOW TO APPLY:
As a candidate you can start an application and progressively update the application until you are ready to submit, using the 'Save Application' Feature.
You can start an application on the go, from anywhere and return to finish your application via the automatic follow up email when you have time and the required information at hand.
You must use your own email address and not one used previously by another person that has applied for a position with Council.
Being mindful of diversity and inclusion we have provided 2 options to apply for the position:
Option 1 - Written Application
You may wish to prepare your responses in a Word document, and then COPY and PASTE into the fields below.
Step 1: Fill out our online application form below. Once you have completed all the questions, click 'Next'
Step 2: Attach your resume/CV and a cover letter (optional). Once you have attached your document/s click 'Next'.
Step 3: Please review your application and confirm everything is correct. Click 'Confirm' to send your completed application.
You will receive an email to confirm your application has been received.
Option 2 - Audio File Application
Step 1: Scroll down and review the Questions that you are required to answer.
Step 2: Record an audio file of your responses and save the file (the file must be in an MP3 format and less than 50MB). Please note that all questions with a drop box or a check box as well as the reference checks details can not be answered via audio file and must be completed below.
Step 3: Fill out the Personal Details section and the questions that can not be completed by audio file on the application form below. For all of the Questions where you are responding via audio file, type the response “audio file”. Once you have completed all the questions, click 'Next'
Step 4: Attach your resume/CV, a cover letter (optional) and your audio file. Once you have attached your documents click 'Next'.
Step 5: Please review your application and confirm everything is correct. Click 'Confirm' to send your completed application.
You will receive an email to confirm your application has been received.
