Remuneration: Salary range between $88,701 and $94,166 per annum, plus commuter use of a Council vehicle and 13% superannuation.

Closing Date:   Sunday 6 August 2017 at 5.00pm AEST

No late applications will be accepted.  Only applications received via Council's online application system will be considered. Unsolicited applications from agencies will not be considered. 

Role Overview

This position, whilst responsible to the Manager Operations and Maintenance - Water Business Unit, will play a pivotal role in delivering the Water Business Units objective to deliver safe, reliable drinking water and remove and treat sewage for our domestic and commercial customers to ensure we meet both our commitment to our customers and our compliance objectives and legislative requirements.

What we are looking for

Council is seeking a suitably qualified candidate with significant water industry management experience and the ability to lead and motivate skilled crews as they carry out civil preventative, corrective and reactive maintenance work on Council's vast water and sewerage infrastructure network. 

As the Co-ordinator Civil Maintenance - Water Business Unit, you will be directly responsible for tasks such as: 

• Meeting resource and works flow management requirements for civil water and wastewater infrastructure.
• Civil maintenance planning, including assistance with job planning, materials procurement, resource allocation, safety, water quality and environmental management.
• Managing daily activities of crews undertaking civil preventative, corrective and reactive maintenance.
• Minor capital works and private works project estimating, planning, delivery, commissioning and asset information collection.
• Management of contracts, and of contractors undertaking civil and ancillary works associated with civil maintenance and minor capital works.
• Maintaining drinking water quality and minimising water supply disruption times to ensure regulatory compliance reporting and customer service standards are met.
• Meeting environmental obligations to ensure sewer overflows are minimised and appropriately cleaned up and reported on to ensure regulatory compliance and customer service standards are met.
• Customer complaints management, and timely completion and close-out of CRM’s and Work Orders according to assigned priorities.
• Network monitoring and reporting, including management of drinking water quality to a food grade standard.
• Safety, quality and environment system implementation
• Asset condition assessments and maintenance framework implementation to optimise asset life-cycle costs

To be considered for this role, you must have:

• A Civil Tertiary qualification and/or Plumbing Trade Qualification with significant water industry management experience.
• Demonstrated experience at Local Government management level or management experience in a similar role with proven ability to lead, motivate and manage staff and a sound knowledge of contemporary human resource practices.
• Proven ability to work independently, exercise initiative and meet deadlines.
• Extensive knowledge and demonstrated experience of operation and maintenance practices in the water industry and leading large teams to meet service level outcomes and optimise operating costs.
• Sound knowledge of customer call centre requirements and scripting, schedule and dispatch of work orders and job planning, operational monitoring, control and management and performance reporting.
• Demonstrated experience in effectively developing and maintaining strategic relationships and effectively communicating with internal and external stakeholders, including all levels of local and state government, industry regulators, community, customers, elected representatives and contractors.
• Experience in successful interacting with customers, unions and industry regulators over time.
• Knowledge of the reporting requirements for a regulated water business.

Desirable for this role will be:

• Experience in operations and maintenance practices and asset maintenance systems including field tablet use for asset maintenance management, Authority / Technology One, Assetic / Maximo / SAP, GIS.
• Knowledge of the role of Local Government and the Australian Water Industry.

Special Requirements of this role will be:

• The requirement and ability to respond to after hours emergency works or incident management and participate in an on-call roster.

Position Description

For a full position description containing essential and desirable criteria, please click here. 

Who to Contact

For information regarding the requirements of this role, please contact the Manager Operations and maintenance - Water Business Unit, Michael Doherty on Ph: 5481 0790 or email michael.doherty@gympie.qld.gov.au

For assistance lodging your application using Council's online system, please contact Council's Advisor - Human Resources, Mrs Ros McVicar on 07-5481 0646 or email ros.mcvicar@gympie.qld.gov.au