Operational Excellence Specialist

1 week ago


Preston, Victoria, Australia Melbourne Water Full time

At Melbourne Water, we're passionate about delivering exceptional water supply services to our community. As an Operational Excellence Specialist in this role, you'll play a crucial part in driving continuous improvement and optimizing infrastructure operational controls.

We're seeking a highly skilled professional with expertise in analytics and process improvement to spearhead initiatives across diverse business units. Your focus will be on ensuring efficient and effective delivery of service outcomes, meeting regulatory, corporate, community, and customer expectations.

Your key responsibilities will include:

  • Leading Process Improvement Initiatives: Develop and implement process improvements, leveraging technical expertise in analytics to enhance efficiency, quality, and minimize manual tasks.
  • Enhancing Team Efficiency: Streamline field operations data into electronic formats, conduct on-site visits to capture asset condition data, and organize it systematically in a comprehensive database.
  • Compliance Oversight: Monitor compliance rates, performance metrics, and contribute insightful analyses of water quality data.
  • Alarm Rationalization Optimization: Optimize alarm rationalization to ensure the relevance of alarms and clean up data for accuracy, facilitating a seamless transition to a new SCADA system.

To excel in this role, you'll need:

  • Operational Analysis Proficiency: Proven experience in analyzing operational controls and optimization within an industrial context, including risk management, manufacturing, processing, or utilities.
  • Continuous Improvement Leadership: Demonstrate a track record of driving continuous improvement in operational efficiency and effectiveness, utilizing contemporary operational controls and improvement methodologies.
  • 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 developing and utilizing spatial, asset management databases, and software integration, with the ability to adapt to new data management systems like ESRI, Maximo, and PowerBI.
  • Qualification and Expertise: Possess a qualification in process engineering or relevant experience in operations or process improvement (or a related subject), bringing valuable knowledge and insights to the role.

The ideal candidate will possess strong problem-solving skills, excellent communication abilities, and a passion for delivering results in a dynamic and supportive team environment.

We offer a competitive salary range of $90,000 - $120,000 per annum, depending on your level of experience and qualifications.

At Melbourne Water, we value diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from talented professionals who share our commitment to excellence and customer satisfaction.



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