Assistant Manager Trade Measurement Services

**Job no**: 510941

**Employment type**: Ongoing

**Location**: Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Canberra

**Categories**: Executive Level 1, Administration, Regulation

**About the team**:
The **National Measurement Institute** (NMI) is the Australian Government’s national authority on measurement. We play an important role in the Australian economy by maintaining and regulating Australia’s measurement system, developing and maintaining national measurement standards, and delivering world-class measurement products and client services. NMI is proud to have six values; we are adaptive, innovative, accountable, strategic, inclusive and influential.

Measurement is integral to a successful economy and to the progress of innovation and science. Our work adapts to, services and enhances the productivity and growth of Australian industries, and aims to ensure a fair, safe, healthy and competitive Australia.

The **Legal Metrology Branch** (LMB) plays an important role in ensuring Australian consumers and industry can rely on trusted measurements for fair trade in goods and services. To ensure traders comply with the law and adopt correct measurement trading practices, we employ inspectors who check that measuring instruments (for example, weighing scales, fuel pumps and weighbridges) are accurate throughout Australia, pre-packaged articles contain the correct amount of produce, and that fuel sold in service stations complies with fuel quality standards.

We also support the outcomes of the government agencies, undertaking inspection and audit activities through memoranda of understanding.

A total of two positions are available, one in Queensland and one in either South Australia or Western Australia.
- In-depth knowledge of legislative, financial and administrative frameworks, government decision-making processes and department guidelines and regulations, including but not limited to, complex trade measurement issues, techniques, verification and trading practices.
- Demonstrated ability to manage tasks and operate to contribute to the delivery of a diverse range of highly specialised technical services and regulatory activities in accordance with best practice, government policy and legislative requirements.
- Demonstrated communication and stakeholder management skills with an ability to initiate, establish and maintain strong relationships with a broad range of stakeholders, coupled with the ability to negotiate with clients and contractors to communicate the strategic vision of the agency.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate a diverse team, ensuring a positive, engaged and high performing team environment.
- Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain strong productive and collaborative working relationships across the branch, broader department and other stakeholder groups.
- Demonstrated ability under broad direction to engage with and resolve complex issues, think strategically, undertake analysis and prepare high level policy advice, reports and briefings, interpret contracts and specifications to implement risk and principles-based technical policy in new and existing areas.

Experience in a compliance and enforcement environment is also desirable.

**What you will do**:
Under broad direction, the successful applicant will:

- Demonstrate behaviours consistent with the values of being adaptive, innovative, accountable, strategic, inclusive and influential, while encouraging and supporting others to do the same and recognising and responding to breaches of these values.
- Develop, implement and monitor/evaluate the Region’s work programs and compliance activities, including the setting of work priorities, proactive risk-based inspection activities and oversight of essential procurement within budget and in accordance with the Nation Compliance Plan.
- Provide leadership and direction to a geographically spread team for program delivery to ensure high quality outputs including ensuring employees maintain a high level of specialist, professional and/or technical expertise.
- Extensive knowledge of statutory, regulatory and policy frameworks to provide technical advice and manage complex compliance and enforcement activities and projects.
- Well-developed skills in research, analysis, problem solving, planning and organising to manage competing priorities and workloads.
- Undertake risk assessments and risk management activities for projects / programs.
- Engage and collaborate with key internal and external stakeholders to identify opportunities, develop educational and other programs, achieve outcomes and facilitate cooperation.
- Provide expert technical advice and develop national compliance policies, National Instrument Test Procedures and National Test Procedures. Maintain systems relating to proactive compliance strategies and assist in the development and implementation of legislative initiatives.
- Create and maintain a high-performance work environment by mentoring and developing talen