Manager Engineering (Water)

About Us

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We warmly welcome individuals who bring fresh perspectives and unique skills, helping to enrich our collective vision for a vibrant and thriving community.

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About this Position:

The Manager Engineering (Water) leads the strategic planning, project development investigations, design, and delivery of council's water, sewer and urban stormwater infrastructure. The role is responsible for ensuring safe, sustainable and compliant services for the community by overseeing strategic planning, infrastructure planning, project delivery, technical standards and operational performance and supporting operational troubleshooting. 

What We can offer you:

• Attractive remuneration
• Flexible work options working within operational requirements
• Employee Assistance and Health & Wellbeing Programs.
• Training and development opportunities.
• Access to a range of gym and pool facilities

What we trust you to deliver:

• Lead and develop multidisciplinary teams, Strategy, Planning & Investigation, and Capital Delivery
• Develop strategies for infrastructure development and the continued provision of services to our distributed and growing community
• Oversee planning, design and delivery of capital investment projects for water, sewerage and urban stormwater infrastructure
• Provide technical leadership to achieve effective long-term planning, prudent capital investment profiles, and rigorous design and construction management oversight
• Manage budgets, procurement, contracts and contractor performance for water, sewerage and urban stormwater infrastructure
• Manage engineering input into development applications and subdivision approvals.
• Develop and implement policies, procedures, and service improvements to enhance efficiency and customer experience, and support assessment teams with interpretation and application of required standards.

What you will need to be successful:

• Tertiary qualifications in Civil or Environmental Engineering or a related discipline.
• Chartered Engineer status or eligibility to attain engineering certification with Engineers Australia, or equivalent engineering body. 
• Extensive experience in water, sewerage and stormwater planning and operations.
• Strong knowledge of relevant legislation, standards and codes e.g. WSAA, Australian Drinking Water Guidelines, NSW EPA regulations, NSW regulatory and assurance framework for local water utilities.
• Proven leadership capability.
• Technical proficiency commensurate with a diverse water, sewerage and stormwater infrastructure-base. 
• NSW Class C Driver Licence. 

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Full Time: 70 hours per fortnight

Salary: A competitive salary will be offered to the successful applicant based on their relevant skills and experience.

Closing date: Monday 19 October at 9:00am.

Contact: If you want to know more about this opportunity, please contact Kim Taylor, Manager Engineering (Acting) on 0487 110 612.

Conditions of Employment: Conditions of employment are in the Local Government (State) Award and relevant Council policy, procedures and agreements 

Pre-employment Screening: Prior to employment, there will be a series of pre-employment checks that may include health assessments (such as functional fitness, audio, chest x-ray, spirometry, drug testing), validation of right to work in Australia, validation of qualifications and licences, criminal history checks, psychometric assessments and referee checks.

Immunisation Program: Council has an immunisation program to provide employees with vaccinations against known health risks associated with their respective duties and to identify any exposure to products that may affect an employee's health, fitness and wellbeing. This position has been identified as a risk to the employee and as such the successful applicant/s will be required to participate in the immunisation program and it is the applicant's responsibility to have undertaken relevant immunisation/s prior to commencement with Council.

We care about people as individuals and are committed to diversity, inclusion, and new ways of working. We encourage applications from people of any age, gender, ethnicity, cultural background, faith, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity.