Working at Dynamic: roles across the East Coast

Dynamic recruits across its East Coast network, with roles based in Cairns, Townsville, Hervey Bay, the Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Tweed Heads, Coffs Harbour, Newcastle, Sydney and Wollongong. The business has been operating for more than two decades and provides operational support around the clock.

The work covers four main service lines: vacuum excavation, drain cleaning, pipe CCTV and service locating.

What the work involves

Most field roles are truck-based and site-based. A typical day involves mobilising to one or more sites, setting up around live infrastructure, working with a client’s site team, and producing a clean, accurate excavation or a properly cleaned and recorded drainage line.

It is skilled work rather than repetitive work. Operators are making judgement calls about pressure, ground conditions, spoil handling and when to stop and reassess, often within a few hundred millimetres of a live service.

The service lines

• Vacuum and hydro excavation, exposing and working around live underground services
• Drain cleaning with combination jetting and vacuum units
• Pipe CCTV inspection, recording asset condition and producing the report a client acts on
• Underground service locating, including ground penetrating radar

What the company looks for

Relevant licences and tickets matter, but they are the entry requirement rather than the differentiator. The attributes that hold up on site are:

• Care around live services, and the discipline to stop when something does not look right
• Reliability, because clients build their programmes around confirmed start times
• Communication with site supervisors and other trades
• Willingness to learn the equipment properly rather than adequately
• Comfort with variety, since sites and conditions change constantly

Experience in civil, utilities, plant operation or drainage is useful. Operators are also trained internally, because non-destructive digging around live assets is a skill built through supervised experience.

Support behind the crews

Field crews are backed by regional managers based in their own region, maintained plant, and operational support for after-hours and urgent works. That structure is described in the regional managers behind Dynamic’s East Coast operations.

The group has continued to invest in fleet and coverage, including new trucks into Sydney and a new depot in Newcastle, which is where most new roles come from.

Training and progression

New operators are not put in front of a live asset on their first day. Training is progressive: familiarity with the plant, then supervised work on straightforward excavations, then work in congested corridors as competency builds. Crews are paired so that less experienced operators work alongside people who have done the job for years.

The four service lines also create genuine movement. An operator who starts on vacuum excavation may move into drain cleaning, CCTV inspection or service locating, and locating in particular is a specialist path with its own accreditation requirements.

Tickets and licences

Requirements vary with the role and the region, and the specific tickets for a vacancy are set out with the advertisement. What matters more than the current list is a willingness to add to it, because client and site requirements change and relevant training is supported.

The shape of the work

• Field roles based out of a regional depot rather than travelling from a central base
• A mix of planned programmes and short-notice work
• After-hours, night and weekend work on some sites, particularly roads and live corridors
• Travel to regional and remote sites on some jobs, depending on the depot
• Maintained plant and equipment, with pre-start inspections before every shift

Not every role is in the field. The network also needs schedulers, coordinators, workshop staff, administration and business development, and those positions are advertised through the same channels.

Where the roles are

Positions come up across every region, from Cairns and Townsville in north Queensland through Brisbane and the Gold Coast to Coffs Harbour, Newcastle, Sydney and Wollongong. The full list of regions is on the locations page.

Coming in from another trade

The company also takes on people with no vacuum excavation background. Civil labouring, plant operation, truck driving, plumbing and drainage all transfer well, and the specific skills of non-destructive digging are taught on the job under supervision.

Applications are read by the region they are for rather than filtered centrally, so it is worth being specific about where you are based and what you have operated.

Enquiries about roles that are not currently advertised are still worth sending. Crewing needs change with the work, and depots regularly need people before a vacancy is formally listed. That is particularly true in the northern regions, where distances are long and local crews are harder to replace at short notice.

Applying

Current vacancies and the application form are on the careers page. Applications are welcome from experienced operators and from people with transferable civil or plant experience looking to move into the industry.