Found 25 Trades & Maintenance volunteering opportunities in Australia

Do you enjoy hands-on work in interesting places? Are you looking to share your skills, or develop new skills, in gardening or maintenance? The National Trust (NSW) is currently recruiting volunteers to work as valuable members of the Trust’s Green Team at our prestigious Maitland property!

Do you enjoy hands-on work in interesting places? Are you looking to share your skills, or develop new skills, in gardening or maintenance? The National Trust (NSW) is currently recruiting volunteers to work as valuable members of the Trust’s Green Team at our prestigious Armidale property!

Your diesel experience, motor mechanic or trade's assistant will be highly regarded when you join this friendly and passionate team of volunteers. You'll be servicing railway vehicle engines, doing general maintenance and inspections etc for operation on the national rail network. Our maintenance facilities are located in our Depot at Paterson. Your reliability and enthusiasm will be appreciated.

Join this friendly and passionate team of volunteers, assisting with restoration and maintenance of heritage rail motors, and other general plumbing works around the depot. Your reliability and enthusiasm will be appreciated, as will your previous plumbing experience. Main days of work are Monday and Wednesday. Must be fully vaccinated for COVID 19.

This local heritage organisation is looking for people to assist in various aspects of maintaining and servicing our fleet of heritage railway rolling stockk, as well as helping with upkeep of the depot. No previous experience or specific skills are required-just your reliability and enthusiasm to join this friendly and passionate team. Must be fully vaccinated for COVID 19.

Assist in managing the store of spare parts to maintain and service our fleet of vintage railway rolling stock. Our Depot facilities are located at Paterson.

Join this friendly and passionate team of volunteers. This role involves maintaining and restoring wooden bodied heritage railway rolling stock (rail motors) for operation on the national rail network. Maintaining other wooden facilities within our Depot precinct. Our maintenance facilities are located in our Depot at Paterson. Your reliability and enthusiasm will be appreciated, as will your previous woodworking or carpentry experience.

Do you like working outdoors? You'll be physically active and able to assist this heritage organisation to maintain their grounds (approximately 1 hectare) for the enjoyment of visitors. Tasks include mowing, mulching, trimming, weeding etc. Some gardening and grounds maintenance experience would be an advantage however, any interest in these fields would be appropriate. Main days of work are Mob and Wed. Must be fully vaccinated for COVID 19.

Join this friendly and passionate team of volunteers, assisting with heritage railway rolling stock (rail motors) for operation on the national rail network. The role involves maintaining electrical systems within our Depot facilities. Our maintenance facilities are located in our Depot at Paterson.

Join us for our first planting day of 2024! We look forward to seeing you there.

Remembrance Park Central Victoria manages a number of cemeteries in the Bendigo area and is looking for Gardening and Painting volunteers for a variety of tasks. Someone who is friendly and enjoys meeting and talking to people.

Do you like being outdoors in the bush? Come and assist Susannah Brook catchment Group with their re-vegetation program and see the amazing results”. Several helping hands are needed to re-vegetate a weedy reserve for the return of local native vegetation. We require planters and weeders to continue our revegetation work in The Susannah Brook Reserve.

Be part of a team that restores and repairs historic aircraft. Persons with a disability are welcome to apply if they can meet the position requirements.

Pearn's Steam World has one of the best collection of agricultural steam engines, tractors and other farming artifacts in Australia. These need maintenance, preservation, restoration, or rebuilding depending on their condition. We welcome anyone with the skills and/or aptitude to join the team who care for the collection. The collection ranges from large steam engines to small items such as hand-cranked seeders and butter churns.

Do you fancy yourself as a bit of a Jack / Jan of all trades? Join our restoration team, which you would join, is tasked with the responsibility of restoring and maintaining the train collection at Bennett Brook Railway. Tradies and non tradies welcome!

Join our Bushcare volunteer program and assist in the rehabilitation of our beautiful bushland reserves

Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare is a not-for-profit community group, dedicated to conservation and re-vegetation activities in the Townsville region. Landcare site volunteers help remove invasive weeds, participate in tree planting events, water plants, spread mulch, pick up litter and other general duties involved in maintaining the sites #EventVolunteering #YouthVol #enviroment #gardening #fitness #outdoors

Your gardening experience, or your willingness to learn new gardening skills, will be greatly appreciated in this role. You'll be working outdoors in a beautiful setting: planting, weeding, pruning and mulching as well as other garden related activities. Days and hours are negotiable to suit your schedule. The role requires a current Criminal Record Check and would prefer a current Working with Children Check.

Join this friendly and passionate team of volunteers. This role involves maintaining and restoring heritage railway rolling stock (rail motors) for operation on the national rail network. Your previous boiler maker experience would be appreciated as the role includes fabrication of metal facilities within our Depot precinct. Our maintenance facilities are located in our Depot at Paterson.

Are you concerned about the amount of rubbish on our coastline? Adopt a Spot are recruiting volunteers to nominate an area of coastline to manage the removal of marine debris. Tasks will include daily cleans, collation of data (taking pictures of marine debris & reporting back on data via email or social media), disposal of materials in accordance with Local Council rubbish/recycling guidelines and provide community education in sustainable practices.