Operating Performance Team Lead - Melbourne, Australia - CitiPower and Powercor

CitiPower and Powercor

Verified Company

Melbourne, Australia

1 week ago

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Olivia Brown

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Description

Operating Performance Team Lead:

Melbourne, TAS, AU, 3000
About us:

CitiPower, Powercor and United Energy own and operate the electricity distribution networks servicing 1.9 million customers located across 65% of Victoria.

These customers include a large numbers of households, as well as commercial and industrial businesses, world class arts, health and sporting precincts, popular tourism regions and the biggest infrastructure projects in Victoria.

In designing and delivering these services, our people are united by a real sense of purpose to empower customer choices in ways that are important for our communities and the environment.

Using advanced analytics, knowledge built through years of practical expertise, partnerships with leading researchers, and the courage to experiment, our people are proud to be disruptive influencers amongst the electricity industry.

Increasingly, our networks are connecting new large-scale renewable energy generators and integrating technologies like solar, batteries and electric vehicles as customers change the way they generate, use, store and share power.

This demand is transforming the electricity market faster than any change we've ever seen before.

As a result, our people are at the frontline in developing and implementing innovative technologies and solutions necessary for the future of our industry not only in Victoria but globally.

About the Role:

We currently have an exciting career opportunity to join our Operating Performance Team based our either our CBD Head Office or Regional Depots in a full time and permanent capacity.

The role will be responsible for supporting the safe and reliable field network operation practices on our networks.

This is done through developing and implementing improvement projects, collaboration with stakeholders, supporting operating mentors across the business and providing communication to the wider field operator group.

What you'll deliver:

Support the development and implementation of improvement strategies for delivering high safety and reliability network operating practices, and in turn improve Operating Incident Frequency Rate performance
Support communications to stakeholders to ensure alignment and understanding of objectives, strategies, and plans
Support, foster and direct a network of field operating mentors to drive best practice in field network operations
Create communications to drive awareness of network operating hazards, and controls
Provide 'handson' operating support, training and advice
Engage with stakeholders across Field Delivery; Health, Safety & Environment; Learning & Development; Network Asset Management to support continuous improvement and governance of operational performance.

To succeed in this role you'll have:

Certificate III Electrical Trade, Certificate of Technology (Electrical), or Certificate IV Electrical, Associate Diploma or Advanced Diploma of Electrical Engineering / or equivalent Tertiary based qualification
Experience in Network Controlling, Operations Planning or Field Operating on a distribution network
Distribution Network / Transmission Network service provider experience
High level understanding across all areas of switching activities and Human Factors
Effectively at engaging all levels of stakeholders and influencing without authority
Understanding and resolving safety, technical and operational challenges.

Your career with us:

We have a diversity of teams across our business, all contributing to great customer and community outcomes. Our people are our most important asset, and we continually invest in nurturing their capability.

We proudly strive to provide a safe, inclusive and sustainable environment where all our people feel respected, valued and supported to bring their whole selves to work and be the best they can be.

With an embedded Inclusion & Diversity Strategy and initiatives like our Women in Power networking group, and Sparkle, our LGBTIQ+ allies pride network, we're committed to equal opportunities for all employees.

Our greatest priority is the health, safety and wellbeing of our people and the communities we operate within.

This includes their physical safety - ensuring everyone gets home safely everyday - as well as their psychological safety, by ensuring everyone has the resources and support needed to achieve a work-life balance and be the best they can be.

What's next?

If you require adjustments as part of the recruitment process to accommodate your needs, please don't hesitate to discuss these with us.

Beon, CitiPower Powercor and United Energy recognise Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples as the First Peoples and Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we work.

We pay our respects to Elders past and present and acknowledge their ancient and continuing connection to Country.

We work hard to ensure our organisation is inclusive and diverse. This me