System Controller

**System Controller**:

- Melbourne, VIC, AU, 3000**About us**:
We’re a business that cares about you and your community. CitiPower and Powercor Australia is an essential service, supplying reliable, safe and affordable electricity vital for our customers and working towards a clean energy future.

In designing and delivering these services, our people are united by a real sense of purpose to empower customer choices in ways that are important for our communities and the environment. Using advanced analytics, knowledge built through years of practical expertise, partnerships with leading researchers, and the courage to experiment.

**About the Role**:
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a System Controller to join the Network Control and Operations team on a 24/7 rotating shift roster, based at our Head Office in the Melbourne CBD in a permanent capacity.

In this critical role, you will be responsible for controlling, monitoring, planning and managing switching activities for planned, unplanned and emergency events. This is conducted across limited transmission, transmission connection points, sub-transmission, distribution and low voltage networks.

The responsibility is applied to Rural, Urban and CBD environments, also involving assets at the interface with other operating authorities, co-generation companies and HV customers.

You will be responsible for ensuring safe access to the network accounting for factors such as safety, operational procedures, equipment limitation, system loading and available resources.

You will also be working with world first bushfire mitigation technology, major generators and be on the cutting edge of the Distributed Energy Resources energy transition.

**What you’ll deliver**:

- Perform and coordinate switching operations for planned network access
- Respond to unplanned outages, and emergency situations
- Provides advice and direction to internal personnel, external operational authorities and major customers
- Maintain system information databases and system operations drawings
- Effectively use computer based network management tools (SCADA / OMS) to plan operational activities and monitor the network ensuring system reliability, supply quality and high level of customer service
- Monitor and action abnormal network scenarios, by recording issues, setting priorities and coordinating with resources to ensure follow up is undertaken and network is returned to normal.
- Maintain accurate and timely outage information in a real-time switching environment for the benefits of internal and external stakeholders
- Monitor the effectiveness of operating practices and procedures and assist in the revision and development of new procedures

**To succeed in this role you’ll have**:

- Certificate of Technology (Electrical), Certificate IV Electrical, Associate Diploma Electrical Engineering or equivalent Tertiary based qualifications
- Working knowledge of the Transmission, Sub Transmission & Distribution Network, its primary and secondary components, design, construction, operation, maintenance, control, communication and protection requirements
- An understanding of Operational & fault investigation practices for the electrical network
- A demonstrated commitment of health and safety (through an understanding of the principles/concepts of the jobs)
- Experience working in Faults Management, Field/ Zone Substation, and solid understanding of SCADA and Outage Management System

**Your career with us**:
We have a diversity of teams across our business, all contributing to great customer and community outcomes. Our people are our most important asset, and we continually invest in nurturing their capability.

We proudly strive to provide a safe, inclusive and sustainable environment where all our people feel respected, valued and supported to bring their whole selves to work and be the best they can be.

With an embedded Inclusion & Diversity Strategy and initiatives like our Women in Power networking group, and Sparkle, our LGBTIQ+ allies pride network, we’re committed to equal opportunities for all employees.

Our greatest priority is the health, safety and wellbeing of our people and the communities we operate within. This includes their physical safety - ensuring everyone gets home safely everyday - as well as their psychological safety, by ensuring everyone has the resources and support needed to achieve a work-life balance and be the best they can be.

**What’s next?**

OUR VALUES: Live safely, Be Customer and Community Minded, Succeed Together, Be The Best You Can Be, Improve Our Business

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