Isolation Planning Team Leader

About us:
Unitywater operates in one of Australia’s most exceptional environments in terms of natural beauty, geographical and demographic breadth. Proudly providing safe and reliable water to customers in Moreton Bay, Sunshine Coast and Noosa, we are a water utility serving one of the fastest growing regions in the country.
We think a pretty good job starts here………
  
About the role:
In this 12 month contract as the Isolation Planning Team Leader, you will be accountable for coordinating and directing the interface of functions within the Isolation Planning Team to produce detailed Network Intervention Plans,  including the production of isolation plans to minimise network and customer disruption to ensure a positive customer experience. Key accountabilities will include but not be limited to:
  

• Ensure that all isolation plans are produced and approved with appropriate contingency measures defined to reduce operational risk to the network and unnecessary disruption to customers, ensuring impacted customers receive 48 hours’ notice of outages to meet the requirements of Unitywater’s customer charter.
• Coordinate and direct the daily interface with Control Room team to ensure Isolation Plans are issued to the Control Room with a detailed handover to enable the Control Room staff to direct and control the execution of isolation plans.
• Work in collaboration with the Contact Centre team to ensure affected suburbs of Planned Outages are communicated with advance notice and that the service interruptions page is reflects accurate information.
• Conduct post-outage reviews to identify planning or process improvements and data inaccuracies ensuring improvements are actioned and AKAP are notified of required data changes.
• Lead and direct isolation planning to ensure safe drinking water requirements are met and water quality risks including the potential for dirty water is mitigated by means of appropriate flushing plans.
• Collaborate with Works Planning Team Leader to establish works coordination impacts and direct the Isolation Planning Team functions to ensure isolation plans are developed in accordance with the integrated works plan and meet safe working requirements and safe drinking water requirements.

  
About you:
To contribute to Unitywater’s values of Reliability, Safety, Honesty & Integrity, Efficiency, One Team, Innovation, you will ideally demonstrate the following skills and qualities for the role:
  

• Tertiary Qualifications in Engineering or other relevant qualification coupled with significant applied experience in this field.
• Highly developed leaderships and communication skills to lead and manage a diverse technical function that interfaces with business critical functions.
• Demonstrated track record in keeping abreast with technological changes and a proven ability to lead highly technical discussion with experienced personnel.
• Demonstrated ability to translate a highly technical topic into corporate terms to effectively communicate opportunities and risk.
• Significant experience working in a 24/7 environment that has significant organisational impact and urgency associated.
• Significant experience working with operational technologies and systems such as SCADA, GIS, CMMS.
• Demonstrated ability to direct outcomes during times of elevated urgency by applying a systematic and deductive approach to complex problem solving, gathering and processing relevant information and delivering confident decisions.

  
Working at Unitywater:
Why is a career at Unitywater a pretty good choice?
Unitywater is one of the largest employers in the region, offering continuous investment in training, diverse career paths, health and wellness benefits, flexible work arrangements and a rewarding environment. We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive work environment that supports individuals to reach their full potential.
  
Proudly Unitywater:
We know that we are smarter, better, together.  That’s why we are committed to working in a team that values the unique contributions of all our people.  At Unitywater we support candidates with all abilities and diverse backgrounds to apply. 
It’s a pretty good place to work when you can support the community, focus on sustainability, and develop and learn interesting and innovative things.
  
How to apply: 
Please apply online following the links, and make sure to upload your up to date CV.
If you’re successful we will need you to undergo a few checks….  We know they might not be the fun part, but you will need to confirm your right to work in Australia and complete relevant pre-employment checks, including verification of criminal history, drivers licence and driving history, alcohol and other drug screening.

Applications close:  COB Thursday 19 December.

At Unitywater we are proud to be a Circle Back Initiative Employer – we care about our candidates and commit to respond to every applicant.
For further information or to request the position description for this role, please contact the Careers team at careers@unitywater.comBe part of a proudly inclusive and innovative water & sewerage service provider, Supportive team and collaborative working environment, 12 month contract opportunity based in Maroochydore

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