Catchment Management Officer

**Catchment Management Officer**

**Classification **Level, Central Highlands Water Enterprise Agreement

**Team, unit **Land Assets, Environmental Services

**Division **Infrastructure Planning & Operations

**Work location **Learmonth Road, Ballarat

**Employment type **Up to Full-time Hours, Permanent

**Position reports to **Team Leader, Land Assets

**Our Values**

Our vision: _Our Water - Our Customers - Healthy Living _

Our mission: _Together, we provide quality water and wastewater services, safely, efficiently and sustainably to _
- communities in the Central Highlands Region _

Our values: _Integrity Teamwork Leadership Care**Organisational Environment**

At Central Highlands Water (CHW) ‘_Safety is Everyone’s Priority_. We are committed to the safety of our people,
customers and the community we serve and have a zero tolerance towards bullying, harassment or violence within
the workplace.

We have an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and difference. We believe all jobs can be worked flexibly
LGBTIQA+ and people from different cultural backgrounds.

We support and encourage employees’ continuous professional development. Employees are supported in keeping
informed of current industry best practice and are encouraged to take an active personal interest in staying up to
date with professional practices, standards and latest trends.

We believe that everyone has the capability to demonstrate leadership, regardless of their formal level of authority.
We expect all team members to focus their efforts on developing and displaying the leadership behaviours defined
in our Leadership Capability Framework. We have a commitment to enhancing our leadership maturity across the
whole business, through our internal Personal Leadership Program, Learn Lead Grow (LLG), and focussing on
Leading Self, Leading People and Leading the Organisation.

**Purpose**
- Prepare and deliver integrated asset management plans for land management, including water supply

catchments, for waterway protection and for other associated lands owned or under management of CHW.
- Provide leadership in the delivery of asset management processes and associated activities with the use of

Asset Management systems such as Infor Public Sector (IPS), geographic information systems (GIS), and
mobile technology within the Environmental Services team and associated contractors.
- Analyse and report on environmental land and water asset condition utilising GIS and data analysis skills and

continuously improve systems, processes and programs for internal and external stakeholders on matters
relating to natural resource management.
- Help CHW to meet our regulatory and stakeholder obligations to maintain and restore our natural assets, through

better business decisions and the implementation of operational management systems.

**Key Duties/Responsibilities
**Management Systems**
- Supporting the development of catchment asset management, technical and detailed plans in regard to long

term Environmental Master Planning for land and assets managed by CHW.
- Develop and implement tools and systems in accordance with CHW’s Environmental Management System, that

assist management and staff in complying with environmental obligations; in particular the protection of natural,
cultural and heritage assets.
- Provide leadership, guidance and technical advice to internal stakeholders in relation to passive recreation,

natural asset management, biodiversity protection and enhancement, and environmental obligations.
- Ensure that CHW’s operations comply with all state and federal legislation relating to pest species management

and the protection of natural assets for example; cultural, heritage, flora, fauna and vegetation offset.

providing technical assessment of catchment-based impacts and working with stakeholders to obtain best
outcome.

**Digital and Geographic Information Systems**
- Provide support to the Environmental Services group to continually improve and capture environmental assets

and infrastructure data and integrate this within CHW business systems for example; asset management
systems (such as Infor Public Sector (IPS)) and the ongoing development and management of geographic
information management systems (such as ArcGIS).
- Provide strategic planning information to inform annual and seasonal land maintenance activities.
- Provide leadership within the Infrastructure Planning and Operations Division on the use of environmental

geographic information systems and support in regards to capturing assets in asset management systems.

**Work Planning**
- Conduct routine site inspections to develop and maintain periodic reports on the extent and condition of CHW

environmental assets.
- Support the Team Leader and Land Assets Team to identify, plan and schedule the catchment and land asset

maintenance annual works programs
- Conduct catchment inspections to assess natural and infrastructure asset conditions and maintain