Field Technician (Water Services) Clare

What is the unique purpose of the role? As a Field Technician, your mission is to contribute to efficient operations and achieve regional performance targets. You'll play a crucial role in ensuring customer satisfaction, safety, environmental compliance, and water quality. Utilise your solid knowledge of networks and complex problem-solving skills to carry out field-based preventative, corrective maintenance, and emergency response activities.

What does the role do? The key accountabilities unique to this role are:

Put Safety Above All Else:

• Be aware of and apply WHS roles and responsibilities.
• Take responsibility for your safety and the safety of others.
• Manage fatigue during long-distance driving.
• Identify safety improvements in the workplace.
• Report hazards and participate in investigations.

Achieving Standards and Timeframes:

• Maintain network water quality requirements by completing all relevant tasks and activities to the required standard and timeframe.
• Collaborate effectively to ensure tasks and goals are achieved.
• Undertake construction, maintenance, and operational tasks on complex water systems.
• Lead water investigations, construction, commissioning, laying mains, and connections.
• Perform environmental reporting and acquire relevant permits and approvals.
• Handle manual tasks, work at heights, and confined spaces.
• Support onboarding and development of new employees and trainees.

Compliance with Systems:

• Utilise and comply with relevant electronic/paper systems, processes, and procedures.
• Effectively use technology systems (e.g., emap, scada, DBYD) for reporting and administration.
• Perform hazard and fatigue management checks.

Utilisation of Resources:

• Use and maintain tools, materials, equipment, and vehicles appropriately.
• Operate a range of fleet, equipment, and minor plant following safety guidelines.

Customer Service:

• Maintain professional communication with customers and colleagues.
• Resolve customer issues promptly.
• Provide high-level customer service to internal and external customers.

Requirements:

• Numeracy and literacy skills: Required to undertake the role and ability to use a number of electronic systems and applications.
• Class C Drivers license: A Heavy Vehicle Licience would be a bonus (eg MR, HC, Excavator etc)
• National Police Clearance: Must have a current clearance.
• Availability: Commitment for the full 6-month duration.
• Location: Clare.

Ready to make a splash? Apply now and be part of our sustainable water journey!

At HOBAN we embrace diversity, inclusion and equal opportunity. We welcome and encourage applications from people from all backgrounds.

We provide reasonable adjustments; including alternate formats to the recruitment process for individuals with disability. If you require an adjustment to be made during the recruitment process, please email ***********@hoban.com.au or visit hoban.com.au/adjustments.