Trades Instructor

Trades Instructor

Serco is a place where you can grow
Join a team of 12,000+ professionals across APAC and experience a place of challenge, opportunity, and reward.

We offer lots of headroom for you to grow and flexible benefits to suit you in every stage of your life and career, including:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Opportunities for professional development and accredited training
• A supportive and inclusive team environment
• Career progression pathways
• Employee wellbeing initiatives
• Flexible work arrangements

Make an impact at Serco
You will use your trade experience to make a real difference in the lives of others. As a Trades Instructor, you’ll be delivering hands-on, practical training to prisoners, helping them gain employable skills for life after release. You’ll work as part of a collaborative and supportive Industries team at Acacia Prison. This is a permanent, full-time role based in Wooroloo, WA.

As a Trades Instructor in the Industries team, you’ll make a positive impact by:

• Delivering trade-based training in a workshop or industry environment to prisoners
• Supervising inmate work teams to meet daily production, safety and operational standards
• Promoting education, employment and personal development pathways for prisoners
• Maintaining tool and equipment control, conducting daily audits and pre-start checks
• Contributing to sentence management processes through reporting and inmate observations
• Ensuring compliance with Work Health & Safety policies and prison security requirements

Serco is a place for you
You are someone who brings practical trade experience along with a genuine interest in mentoring and developing others. You work well within structured systems and are confident in managing teams, delivering training, and maintaining a safe, respectful workplace. You’re passionate about rehabilitation and helping people prepare for a more positive future.

To be successful in this role you’ll have:

• A relevant trade qualification (Certificate II or III) or willingness to obtain within 12 months
• Sound knowledge of workplace safety and WHS requirements in a workshop or industry setting
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to adapt your style to suit a diverse group
• Experience in delivering structured learning or supervising others in a trade environment
• A valid driver’s licence and current forklift licence (or willingness to obtain)
• The ability to obtain DOJ clearance and pass all relevant background checks, including a National Police Check

You do not need to match every listed expectation to apply for this position. If you like the look of the role, we’d love to hear from you.

Serco Business
As a fast-growing and successful global company, Serco’s services span across the areas of justice, migration, defence, space, customer services, health, and urban mobility.
In joining us, you’ll be part of a highly supportive culture with trusted leaders that will help you achieve your goals.

Please note:

• This position carries trust and responsibility. To support this, a comprehensive probity assessment, including a Federal Police Check, is a key part of the selection process for this role.

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, New Zealand, and Hong Kong, and offers unique opportunities to leverage your skills across our core capabilities in health, defence, maritime, justice, immigration, and community services.

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

Impact a better future at Serco.