Education Manager - Plumbing Trades and Built Environment

About Us

As Tasmania’s publicly owned training provider, TasTAFE is a vital contributor to the prosperity of the state’s economy through supporting jobs and employment and the economic resilience of our businesses and industry. With a focus on practical, real-life learning, we work hard to ensure the training our learners receive is industry relevant and we provide real industry skills that are highly valued by employers.

TasTAFE aspires to be a place of innovation, creating new ways of training, finding solutions, delivering differently, and increasing access for all.

The Role

Based at our State-of-the-Art Water and Energy Trades Centre of Excellence at our Clarence Campus, you’ll lead the VET delivery teams supporting high-quality training across plumbing trades and related built environment programs.

You’ll ensure learners receive a high-quality VET experience that reflects industry expectations and prepares them for employment. From planning programs and managing resources to supporting teachers and strengthening industry relationships, you’ll help shape plumbing and built environment training across Tasmania.

On any given day, you will lead planning, people, resources and quality improvement to ensure training delivery is responsive to learners, teachers and industry.

• Effectively manage team resources to hit targets and strategic outcomes.
• Ensure compliance with ASQA standards, promoting continuous improvement.
• Use learner, teacher and industry feedback to improve delivery, strengthen digital capability and support contemporary VET practice.
• Oversee workplans, competency records, and professional development for staff.
• Lead annual planning to meet learner and industry needs, aligning with TasTAFE’s strategic goals.

What will you bring

• Proven ability to lead people, manage resources and deliver outcomes in a complex, compliance-driven education or training environment.
• Strong VET knowledge and a commitment to quality, innovation and continuous improvement in training delivery.
• Strong understanding of plumbing and construction or related built environment industries, with the ability to stay current on workforce needs and emerging training priorities.
• Skilled in consultative decision-making to enhance VET practice and training services.
• Experience applying contemporary management practices that support performance, safety, wellbeing and a positive team culture.

A current Working with Vulnerable People registration, or the ability to obtain prior to commencement.

Supporting a Diverse Workforce

At TasTAFE, we encourage applications from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community, people living with a disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, mature age workers and members of the LGBTIQ+ community.

We are a diverse and inclusive workplace and understand the importance of flexibility. We want our workforce to reflect the diversity in our community and we are committed to building a culture we are all proud of.

Ask us how we can make this role flexible to suit you.

Join TasTAFE

If you think this could be the opportunity for you, we encourage you to apply. To be eligible, you must have the right to work in Australia.

Candidate screening and interviews may commence prior to the closing date.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, please let our recruitment team know during selection.

Applications for this role close at 11:55pm on Sunday 23 August 2026.

TasTAFE is determined to create a positive application experience for all candidates.

We are committed to provide application outcomes via phone or email in a timely manner to all candidates.

TasTAFE prioritises Tasmania’s Child and Youth Safe Standards and the Universal Principle for Aboriginal Cultural Safety in its recruitment process, ensuring the safety and cultural well-being of children, youth, and Aboriginal individuals.