Information Technology (IT)

With over 25 years in the IT Industry from small to large organisations around Australia, the mission of the IT area at Big Col's Recruitment is to serve as a provider of value-for-money services, a leader in the application of IT to the needs of the mining, construction, commercial, hospitality sectors and an enabler in helping organisations to embrace new practices and tools that enhance productivity at an affordable cost.

Our IT Strategy

• Key objectives of the IT organisation include maintaining the availability and capacity of a modern computing and communications infrastructure; ensuring the security of applications and information; ensuring that IT programs are aligned with your business strategy and are actively supported and sponsored by business; and managing service delivery for cost-effectiveness and agility.
•  The provision of IT services is centralised in the Big Col's Recruitment within the Technology and General Services Department, and led by a CIO (David Greening) who reports to the Managing Director of Big Col's Recruitment.
•  IT services are provided by a number of national staff, supplemented by vendors that supply services on both time-and-materials and performance-based contracts-including help desk and most application support services.
•  Our vision for IT service delivery puts IT staff in roles that reflect their accountability for the achievement of business outcomes in partnership with their business counterparts. Big Col's Recruitment IT staff work with business to understand their needs, and manage the delivery of staff on-time and for a low budget. Staff serve in roles that manage the use of project resources, require institutional knowledge or a high degree of trust, and provide a rapid response and continuity in times of trouble.

Our Work Environment, Values & Culture

The Big Col's Recruitment is renowned for providing its staff with interesting and challenging work, a friendly and diverse culture, and superior job benefits. Work in the IT organisation offers all of this and more: 

•  We promote a culture of respect, openness, and transparency
•  We support ongoing development to provide staff with challenging growth opportunities
•  We believe that staff's technical expertise needs to be complemented by equally strong interpersonal, communication and other non-technical skills
•  We believe that our staff should be well-rounded with skills that enable them to add value in multiple areas of the IT organisation
•  We believe in maturing our processes and improving performance through active support of communities of practice
•  We believe in measuring our performance in terms of outcomes, outputs and user satisfaction, and transparently reporting on performance to stakeholders across Big Col's Recruitment

Our Computing Environment

The computing environment at the Big Col's Recruitment is modern, robust and sophisticated. Key features of the IT environment include:

•  A broad and diverse portfolio of applications supporting every facet of Big Col's Recruitment operations.  These include office productivity tools, knowledge management and collaboration systems, economic analysis and modelling tools, warehouses for economic and administrative data, publishing and dissemination systems, and applications to support finance, treasury, and human resources operations.

Our Key IT initiatives

• Building the Big Col's Recruitment's capacity to communicate and collaborate, and to manage, find, and share our information assets

- Facilitating collaboration among Big Col's Recruitment staff and with stakeholders around the Australia

• Modernising human resource and administrative expenditure processes

- Streamlining the administration and costing of Big Col's Recruitment technical assistance

• Maintaining a modern, cost-effective, secure, and robust IT environment

- Examining opportunities for infrastructure outsourcing

Who are we looking for?

People who:

• Come from diverse backgrounds
• Are self-motivated, performance-driven
• Have a blend of technical expertise and well-honed non-technical skills
• Believe in "staying in school" to maintain and expand skills to rise to new challenges
• Want to be part of a dedicated team of top-notch professionals providing first-class IT services to your organisation