Technical Drafting Officer

**Technical Drafting Officer**:

- Melbourne, VIC, AU, 3000**About CitiPower and Powercor**:
CitiPower, Powercor and United Energy own and operate the electricity distribution networks servicing 1.9 million customers located across 65% of Victoria. These customers include large numbers of households as well as commercial and industrial businesses, world class arts, health and sporting precincts, popular tourism regions and the biggest infrastructure projects in Victoria.

We provide reliable, safe and affordable electricity and our businesses are independently rated as the best in the country for their efficiency. Sustaining this is all the more critical and challenging as greater electrification of homes, fleets and industries becomes a core strategy for reducing carbon emissions and addressing climate change.

Be supported in a workplace that's both dynamic and welcoming, learning from the best in the business, and where there's a focus on inclusivity, collaboration, and rewarding the individual and their aspirations.

**About the Role**:
Reporting to the Spatial Team Lead, the Drafting Technical Officer is responsible for the provision of the full range of drafting services for zone substation, overhead and underground distribution, sub-transmission and optic fibre design projects for the internal and external Powercor Network Services clients.

The Drafting Technical Officer will be responsible for the updating and provision of GIS, survey and asset recording information as required as well as the management of project related documents within the document management system.

**Key duties and responsibilities**:

- Prepare simple and complex plans for new designs and maintain system records
- Maintain the Geographical Information System
- Utilising AutoCAD and GIS packages to enable customer drawing requirements.
- Assist in the design and the planning of minor and major overhead, underground, distribution substations, primary and / secondary station in accordance with the relevant technical manuals, OH&S Act, Safety in Design guidelines and customer requirements
- Undertake minor surveying activities
- Monitor, review and reconcile time, costs and quality of distribution network projects
- Pro-actively and effectively pursue and implement innovation and continues improvements

**Required skills and experience**:

- Engineering or Building drafting or GIS/mapping certificate or equivalent tertiary based qualification with knowledge and experience in AutoCAD systems
- Fundamental knowledge of electricity distribution network assets
- Comprehensive understanding of Engineering Technical Standards, VESI Design, Australian Standards
- Good understanding of CAD Systems and related systems such as Drawing Management Systems
- Detailed knowledge around current Drafting standards, practices, tools and processes

**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**
- CitiPower and Powercor is an Equal Opportunity Employer_

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