Capital Intitiation Officer

Our Organisation

At Melbourne Water we love water and love life. What we do makes a vital contribution to Melbourne’s famous lifestyle. We achieve this by supplying high quality drinking water, providing outstanding sewerage services, integrating drainage systems, building resilience to flooding and by enhancing our waterway and land for greater community use. At Melbourne Water we are in the ‘Decade that Matters’ and we’ve got some ambitious goals to achieve. It’s a pride we share in helping to make greater Melbourne a fantastic place to live.

The Role

Reporting to the Area Manager of Waterway and Catchment Services this role will maintain our customer’s confidence and trust as the region’s waterway manager, provider of valued drainage and land services and streamflow diversion manager. This role will support the planning and initiation of capital works that contribute to the successful implementation of the Healthy Waterways Strategy (2018) and the Flood Management Strategy.

The successful implementation of these strategies will be achieved through and require:

· Knowledge of natural resource management, waterway rehabilitation and drainage

· Appreciation of customer requirements

· Good understand and knowledge of GIS (ESRI) and project/asset management systems (Project Online, Maximo)

· Ability to initiate of capital projects that contribute to the achievement of waterway, flood, drainage and land objectives and targets

· Safety mindset, which includes taking care of own and colleagues’ health, safety and wellbeing through identification and reporting of hazards and active involvement in improvement initiatives.

Your Skills and Experience

• Experience in waterway, drainage and land asset management, natural resource management, waterway planning and rehabilitation practices, and with statutory planning processes (strongly preferred)
• Analytical and problem solving skills related to program management and project development with a particular emphasis on attention to detail
• Strong systems knowledge and experience essential, ideally in Project Online, Maximo and/or ESRI (GIS)
• Well-developed interpersonal skills and an ability to communicate clearly and effectively with a wide range of people both within Melbourne Water and external organisations
• Demonstrated ability to work and contribute in a team environment to improve processes, respond to various demands and manage multiple activities simultaneously
• Demonstrated project and contract management skills and the ability to supervise consultants (preferred)
• A proactive, solutions-focused, continuous improvement mindset and demonstrated resilience.

For more information, please see the attached Position Description:  WL9175 Position_Description_-_Capital_Initiation_Officer.pdf

Culture at Melbourne Water

We take enormous pride in cultivating a culture that holistically benefits our team and the wider Melbourne community. The pillars of our culture are based on Flexibility, Impact, Growth & Development, and People.

• We are committed to flexible working in a variety of manners including hybrid work, varied start/finish times, purchased leave, part time work, and 9 day fortnights. We understand that Melbourne Water and our customers are benefitted by enabling balance in work and life.
• Make an impact as part of a passionate team doing meaningful work. The centralized program governance and improvement initiatives your team deliver will enable more effective, safe and customer focused on-ground delivery of Melbourne Water’s waterway and catchment obligations, programs and services and enhance life and livability in Melbourne.
• We relish learning and challenging the status quo for continuous growth. Perpetual and varied opportunities for learning and development are offered in a variety of manners - from formal development programs, digital learning content and lunch & learns; to visiting our sites and getting to see our initiatives and projects first hand.
• People are the foundation for all that we do. Our people are warm, welcoming, and inclusive.
• We welcome applications from everyone, including people with disability, mature age and young job seekers, members of the LGBTI+ community, and people from culturally diverse backgrounds. Melbourne Water welcomes and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

How to apply

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