Field Technician

3 weeks ago


Clare, Australia HOBAN Recruitment Full time

**What is the unique purpose of the role?** As a **Field Technician**, your mission is to contribute to efficient operations and achieve regional performance targets. You'll play a crucial role in ensuring customer satisfaction, safety, environmental compliance, and water quality. Utilise your solid knowledge of networks and complex problem-solving skills to carry out field-based preventative, corrective maintenance, and emergency response activities.

**What does the role do?** The key accountabilities unique to this role are:
**Put Safety Above All Else**:

- Take responsibility for your safety and the safety of others.
- Manage fatigue during long-distance driving.
- Identify safety improvements in the workplace.
- Report hazards and participate in investigations.

**Achieving Standards and Timeframes**:

- Maintain network water quality requirements by completing all relevant tasks and activities to the required standard and timeframe.
- Collaborate effectively to ensure tasks and goals are achieved.
- Undertake construction, maintenance, and operational tasks on complex water systems.
- Lead water investigations, construction, commissioning, laying mains, and connections.
- Perform environmental reporting and acquire relevant permits and approvals.
- Handle manual tasks, work at heights, and confined spaces.
- Support onboarding and development of new employees and trainees.

**Compliance with Systems**:

- Utilise and comply with relevant electronic/paper systems, processes, and procedures.
- Effectively use technology systems (e.g., emap, scada, DBYD) for reporting and administration.
- Perform hazard and fatigue management checks.

**Utilisation of Resources**:

- Use and maintain tools, materials, equipment, and vehicles appropriately.
- Operate a range of fleet, equipment, and minor plant following safety guidelines.

**Customer Service**:

- Maintain professional communication with customers and colleagues.
- Resolve customer issues promptly.
- Provide high-level customer service to internal and external customers.

**Requirements**:

- ** Class C Drivers license**: A Heavy Vehicle Licience would be a bonus (eg MR, HC, Excavator etc)
- ** National Police Clearance**: Must have a current clearance.
- ** Availability**: Commitment for the full 6-month duration.
- ** Location**: Clare.