Program Delivery Area Lead

**Job Number**:

- 977413

**Work type**:

- Permanent Full Time

**Location**:

- Melbourne - Northern Region

**Categories**:

- Engineering, Environment, Other, Project Management

**Our Organisation**:
We love water and love life. What we do makes a vital contribution to Melbourne’s famous lifestyle. We achieve this by supplying high quality drinking water, providing outstanding sewerage services, integrating drainage systems, building resilience to flooding and by enhancing our waterway and land for greater community use. It’s a pride we share in helping to make greater Melbourne a fantastic place to live.

Reporting to the Team Leader, Delivery you’ll have the opportunity to make a difference and add to our work environment, within a place where you can learn and perform to your fullest potential.

**The Role**:
We currently have five new Area Lead Program Delivery positions working across our catchments. These roles will be based within one of the five regional teams - the Northern (Croydon), Western (Brooklyn), Eastern (Healesville), Central (Bangholme) and Southern (Bangholme).

As the Area Lead you will be responsible for providing professional expertise to a skilled team responsible for ensuring safe, and reliable delivery of the maintenance and minor capital programs and ensuring project and program risks are managed to a high level of standard.

This role will see you manage and coordinate a catchment portfolio of projects being managed by Senior Project Managers, Project Managers and Project Officers with an annual OPEX/CAPEX program of up to $30M and delivery of individual complex projects of up to $10M in value.

The Eastern Area Lead will be required to gain General Fire Fighter accreditation with the ability and motivation to reach and maintain a Level 1 Fire Operations Officer qualification. During Fire Season you will be on a 1 week in every 3 roster, and need to be located within the 25 minutes of the Healesville or Warburton depot.

Your proven people management experience, along with your tertiary qualification in Engineering or Science will see you excel within this role.

**Make an Impact**:
Become part of a talented and passionate team dedicated to enhancing life and liveability in Melbourne and beyond. Doing truly meaningful work in a supportive and inclusive culture that encourages you to make the most of your talents.

We provide a range of employee benefits that will make your experience working at Melbourne Water both professionally and personally rewarding.

**Freedom**:
Melbourne Water is committed to flexible working. We offer a variety of flexible arrangements to suit our employees varied needs and the business, including purchased leave, varied start and finish times, working from alternative locations, part time work and 9-day fortnights. We understand that Melbourne Water and our customers benefit from enabling our employees to achieve balance in work and life.

**Growth & Development**:
We’re a curious bunch at Melbourne Water and relish any opportunity to learn something new. We are in the business of enhancing life and liveability, which lends itself to re-imagining what’s possible and challenging the status quo. We offer a variety of learning opportunities; from formal development programs, digital learning content and lunch & learns; to visiting our sites and getting to see our initiatives and projects first hand. We believe that learning happens every day, so we support our people to continuously learn and experiment in the flow of their work, designing their own development path.

**People**:
**Your Skills and Experience**:

- Demonstrated continuous improvement in efficiency and effectiveness of maintenance and minor capital programs - ideally this will have collaboration with service providers to embed their systems of work across the program
- Extensive knowledge of asset management processes and objectives.
- Sound knowledge of governance matters and probity and confidentiality requirements.
- Extensive knowledge (as required by the Delivery Region) of, and ability to, supervise internal and external teams delivering civil, grass, strategic fire break, natural resource management maintenance and minor capital programs and projects.
- Strong project management capabilities and experience.
- Excellent financial and commercial acumen skills, including strong financial estimate, budgeting and forecasting capabilities.
- Experience in supporting and enabling a high performance and inclusive culture.
- Ability to work under pressure and in emergency situations.
- Demonstrated safety and wellbeing leadership

Your ability to establish and maintain collaborative working relationships with internal and external stakeholders is required together with a relevant tertiary degree (Engineering, Science or similar) with significant industry experience across the areas of asset management, minor capital and maintenance delivery.

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