Operations Team Leader

**Operations Team Leader - Yallourn Power Station**:
**Job no** 507678
- **Work type** Full Time Permanent
- **Location** Victoria
- **Categories** Operations, Engineering, Maintenance and Trades**The site and location**

The Yallourn Power Station is a 1480Mw base load generating plant based in Yallourn Victoria on the traditional lands of the Gunaikurnai people, and is part of the diversified range of EnergyAustralia energy assets, and supplies approximately 22 percent of Victoria's electricity needs, approximately eight percent of the National Electricity Market (NEM) and enough to supply around two million homes.

The Yallourn site is located approximately 130kms east of Melbourne, in an area renowned for natural beauty, access to Melbourne and a full range of modern services and infrastructure.

Yallourn has announced its closure date of June 2028.

**The Role**

Due to a looming retirement, we are currently seeking an experienced people leader for the role of Operations Team Leader, otherwise known as a Generation Shift Manager.

This is a 12 hour shift role, managing a team of Power Station Operators with varying levels of experience and technical capability.

Operations Team Leaders play a key managerial role on site. All team leaders are expected to assume responsibility for the following
- Act as the Yallourn site leader after hours and on weekends
- Lead a team of Operators to meet production and compliance targets
- Display exceptional commitment to building and maintaining high performance teams.
- Meet health and safety, environmental and statutory requirements
- Development of team technical and operational expertise and capability
- Drive production and financial objectives
- Protects the integrity of plant and equipment

As an Operations Team Leader, you're expected to understand the station's business objectives, to initiate strategies and activities to achieve them. You are required to be courageous in identifying and overcoming obstacles to the achievement of those objectives.
- The ability to lead, motivate and coach individuals and a group, with a proven track record in doing so ideally within a power station or other form of heavy industry operations/process environment;
- Interpersonal skills which facilitate quality information exchange;
- High Risk Boiler and Turbine Licences would be an advantage but not mandatory;
- A sound understanding of the production processes used in a coal fired thermal power station;
- A sound understanding of the interaction between production and financial outcomes in a market portfolio context;
- The ability to manage the plant to optimise overall business outcomes;
- A commitment to the continuous improvement of Health and Safety and Environmental outcomes;
- The ability to work in a team to promote the achievement of Operations and station objectives.

A common law contract with competitive salary package and a range of non-salary benefits is on offer for this role.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive culture so our employees can bring their whole selves to work and have a sense of belonging. From our PRISM network that creates a positive culture for LGBTI employees, to our Reconciliation Action Plan that has commitments to strengthen relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and organisations, it’s a workplace where everyone’s welcome