General Manager Field Delivery

**At Powerlink, every possibility starts with you**:
We believe life’s about possibilities. And so’s the future.

With a view to further develop an engaged, innovative and sustainable business, we are now seeking an experienced General Manager, Field Delivery to join our Operations & Services Delivery leadership team. This role will lead the Field and Works delivery teams, enabling the business to be the best it can be.

Your work with us is about every light turned on, every community connected, and every future made possible.
- Highly competitive remuneration package, offering performance pay bonus and 12.75% Superannuation.
- Hybrid, family-friendly and flexible working arrangements including substitution of public holidays.
- Salary packaging of novated lease vehicles I generous relocation package provided.

**Find a career that matters and lasts**:
As the General Manager - Field Delivery, you will lead the Field and Works delivery teams, ensuring efficient maintenance, project and customer work on all Powerlink’s assets. Reporting directly to the Chief Operating Officer, this role carries out critical responsibilities that are pivotal to Powerlink’s success.

Specifically, you will:

- Implement and drive safety strategies, policies, and practices to continuously elevate safety performance within Field Delivery and Powerlink.
- Lead and drive Field Delivery’s state-wide resource planning function for all maintenance, projects, and customer work to ensure an integrated works plan is maintained.
- Direct and facilitate the scheduling and delivery of all maintenance, refurbishment and capital project work to ensure it is completed to agreed commitments and requirements, and when unplanned outages do occur, restoration is completed with mínimal effect on overall work delivery.
- Lead and drive the regionalisation strategy for field services in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
- Ensure effective relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, engendering a strong internal customer focus associated with project and maintenance delivery.

An integral member of the Operations & Services Delivery leadership team, you will support the Chief Operating Officer in achieving the division’s direction through the delivery of both strategic and operational priorities.

**What you'll bring**:
Professional qualifications will be complemented by your high level of personal drive, resilience, and commitment to deliver. You will have significant experience in leading large diverse teams in complex industrial landscapes.

With proven capability to lead within a field-based workforce, you will demonstrate proven expertise in strategic management across diverse divisional functions. With strong business acumen, you will have a penchant for adopting contemporary ways of working, with the ability to think critically and understand key business drivers, translating these into sound commercial principles in all areas of responsibility.

You will enjoy collaborating closely with senior leadership to align workforce planning with future divisional needs. Your dedication to fostering a culture of development will be evident as you strive to enhance employee engagement, capability, and ultimately, cultivate a high-performing group ethos.

You are open and adept at working at both the strategic and operational levels, with the ability to translate business strategy into operational plans, ensuring that planning demonstrates measurable, cost-effective delivery of key outcomes and clear alignment to strategic goals. Familiarity with relevant legislation such as the National Electricity Rules, Electricity Act, and Workplace Health & Safety Acts is highly advantageous.

What matters most is your drive to make an impact for the millions of people we serve. Through our core values of accountability, customer service, teamwork, and safety, you’ll strive to question and challenge the ordinary every day.

**Be the start of every possibility**:
There’s lots to love about a career with Powerlink. But our people say there’s three things that really stand out:

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A career that matters and lasts**: You’ll shape a progressive career connecting more than five million Queenslanders to a world-class, clean energy future.
- ** Unique work and the chance to grow**:You’ll help find smart solutions to interesting problems as you develop your skills and impact every day.
- ** People who love to support and share**: You’ll build relationships with experienced, down-to-earth people who you’ll be proud to work with.

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