Process and Automation Specialist

3 weeks ago


Melbourne, Australia Melbourne Water Full time

**Job Number**:

- 978588

**Work type**:

- Permanent Full Time

**Location**:

- Melbourne - Docklands

**Categories**:

- Engineering, Environment, Health and Safety, Information Technology, Insurance, Risk & Compliance, Management, Operations and Maintenance, Planning

Our Organisation

At Melbourne Water, we have a deep appreciation for water and the beauty of life. Our work plays a crucial role in enhancing Melbourne's renowned lifestyle. We are dedicated to providing exceptional drinking water, ensuring outstanding sewerage services, integrating drainage systems seamlessly, fostering resilience to flooding, and enhancing waterways and land for greater community engagement. As a team, we are proud to contribute to making greater Melbourne an extraordinary place to live.

The Role

As a Process and Automation Specialist reporting to the Area Lead, Quality and Process Improvement (Drinking Water Treatment), you will be based in our Docklands office & Preston Water Operations Centre. In this role, you will provide essential technical advice for continuous improvement and optimization of Infrastructure operational controls and performance monitoring. Your focus will be on ensuring the most efficient and effective delivery of service outcomes within water supply services, meeting regulatory, corporate, community, and customer expectations.

Your key responsibilities include:

- Leading Process Improvement Initiatives: Spearhead process improvement initiatives across diverse business units, bringing technical expertise in analytics. Emphasize the integration of new operational systems and philosophies to boost efficiency, enhance product quality, and minimize manual tasks.
- Enhancing Team Efficiency: Elevate our team's efficiency by converting field operations data into electronic formats. Conduct on-site visits to capture and validate asset condition data, and systematically organize this information in a comprehensive database.
- Compliance Oversight: Monitor compliance, completion rates, and performance metrics, contributing to insightful analyses of water quality data.
- Alarm Rationalization Optimization: Optimize alarm rationalization to ensure the relevance of alarms and clean up data for accuracy. This is crucial for a seamless transition to a new SCADA system, ensuring correctness for improved functionality.

Join us in creating a workplace that values innovation, efficiency, and inclusivity, where your contributions will shape the future of our water supply services.

Salary MW EA 7 starting at $105,602 plus superannuation

For more information please see the attached PD : MW1025_ Position_Description - Process & Automation Specialist (1).pdf

Your Skills and Experience
- Operational Analysis Proficiency: Proven experience in analysing operational controls and optimization within an industrial context, including expertise in areas such as risk management, manufacturing, processing, or utilities.
- Continuous Improvement Leadership: Demonstrate a track record of expertise in driving continuous improvement in operational efficiency and effectiveness. Utilize contemporary operational controls and improvement methodologies, showcasing strong problem-solving abilities
- Technology and Automation Aptitude: Hands-on experience in implementing new technologies and automation within a process environment to enhance business efficiency and product quality.
- Spatial and Database Management: Experience in the development and utilization of spatial, asset management databases, and software integration. A quick learner with the ability to adapt to new data management systems such as ESRI, Maximo, and PowerBI is highly desirable.
- Collaborative Relationship Building: Showcase your adeptness in establishing and maintaining collaborative working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders, contributing to a positive and dynamic work environment.

Culture at Melbourne Water
- At Melbourne Water, we cherish a culture that embraces flexibility, creates positive impact, promotes growth and development, and values people. Melbourne Water is committed to flexibility in the workplace, with the type of flexibility being dependent on the nature of the role. Recognizing the value of work-life balance benefits both Melbourne Water and our customers.
- Embark on a Meaningful Journey: Seize the opportunity to create a significant impact as a valued member of a passionate team dedicated to meaningful work. Join us in our commitment to elevate the quality of Melbourne's drinking water, ultimately enhancing the overall quality of life in this vibrant city.
- We embrace learning and encourage the challenging of the status quo, facilitating continuous growth. Melbourne Water offers a range of learning and development opportunities, from formal programs to digital content and interactive sessions, as well as the chance to visit our sites and witness our initiatives firsthand.

How to apply

Closing date: Sunday 25t



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