Senior Drainage Engineer
Play a pivotal role providing expertise across a diverse asset management drainage portfolio. Work with supportive and collaborative engineers.
Summary about this job
Civil/Structural Engineering
Company: Melbourne Water
Location: Melbourne
Work type: Full Time
Salary: + carers leave + volunteer days + incentives
Phone: +61-3-3029-8676
Fax: +61-3-4381-9609
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Detail information about job Senior Drainage Engineer. Terms and conditions vacancy
- Diverse & dynamic portfolio across drainage civil works
- Opportunity work in a collaborative and supportive environment
- Docklands based
Our Organisation
Melbourne Water is a significant business. We manage water supply catchments, sewage, along with rivers, creeks and major drainage systems. This role within the Flood Services Team will provide you with the opportunity to make a difference and contribute to a positive work environment; one where people can learn and perform to their full potential and are committed to our vision of enhancing life and liveability.
Our core flood services are defined through the 2015 Flood Management Strategy – Port Phillip and Westernport. The Flood Services Team manages the drainage assets and improvement program for Melbourne’s regional drainage network.
The Role
As a Senior Drainage Engineer you will provide expertise across the asset management drainage portfolio to develop and integrate three to five year rolling investment programs. Pivotal to this will be maintaining and renewing Melbourne Water’s civil drainage infrastructure.
Your Skills and Experience
- Provide expert advice and technical direction in developing and applying asset management regimes that will maintain and renew Melbourne Water’s drainage infrastructure. These assets include: Retarding Basins, Levee banks, pump stations, tidal gates, jetties, culverts, drainage bridges and underground drains.
- Work constructively and collaboratively with internal partners to develop programs that maintain the agreed level of service for drainage assets.
- Develop detailed options and interventions for drainage maintenance and renewals.
- Develop and maintain an up to date 20 year capital plan that deliver the deliver the drainage renewals to support the provision of civil drainage services.
- Develop apply and communicate relevant approaches for prioritising the works program for drainage assets.
- Assess and report on drainage asset performance, service capability and risk to drainage services.
- Establish and maintain the requisite drainage asset management plans, procedures and standards.
- Build and maintain positive customer and stakeholder relationships.
- In delivering all accountabilities, strive for a generative safety culture, taking care of own and colleague’s health and safety through active identification, elimination and management of safety risks.
- Communicate and negotiate positive outcomes for the community with skill.
Your ability to establish and maintain collaborative working relationships with internal and external stakeholders is key coupled with a qualification in Engineering, Project Management, or related technical discipline.
To view a position description visit the Melbourne water website under Jobs and careers using job reference number #974641
Working at Melbourne Water
Working at Melbourne Water, you will be part of a talented, passionate team dedicated to enhancing liveability in Melbourne and beyond. You’ll do truly meaningful work in a supportive, constructive culture that encourages you to make the most of your individual talents.
We provide a range of initiatives and benefits to make help our people thrive professionally and personally.
Flexible Working
Melbourne Water is committed to flexible working, offering a variety of flexible arrangements to suit you and us, understanding that it brings with it customer and business benefits as well as helping individual employees achieve a good work–life fit. We aim to make roles flexible, and whilst roles are advertised as fulltime we will consider requests for flexible work arrangements, including part time and job share.
Diversity
Our inclusive workplace culture contributes to making Melbourne Water a great place to work. We are committed to creating a workforce which reflects the incredibly diverse customers and communities we serve. We welcome applications from everyone including Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander people, Women, People with a disability, mature age job seekers and people from culturally diverse backgrounds.
How to apply
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Closing date: Sunday 29th July at 11:55pm AEST