Network Access Planner

**Network Access Planner**:

- Mount Waverley, VIC, AU, 3149**About us**:
We’re a team that cares about you and your community. United Energy (UE) is an essential service, supplying reliable, safe and affordable electricity across the east and south-east of Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula, vital for our customers and 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, our people are proud to be disruptive influencers amongst the electricity industry.

**About the Role**:
We are currently looking for our next technically driven and motivated Network Access Planner to join our Network Control Centre (NCC) team based at our Mount Waverley head office.

Reporting to the Network Access Manager you will be responsible for the efficient and safe provision of the operational planning function on the United Energy distribution network.

You will produce switching instructions in DMS (Distribution Management System), providing safe access to the Network, whilst providing technical operational advice to all stakeholders.

The perfect career opportunity for someone to mix their technical and electrical expertise in a business critical role and help drive operational success.

**What you’ll deliver**:

- Develop and implement sub transmission, HV and LV switching instructions, ensuring system analysis to determine outage requirements
- Ensure UE customers are notified of planned outages under strict regulatory requirements
- Liaise and negotiate with both stakeholders and customers regarding planned outages to help ensure customer satisfaction and minimise network impact
- Focus on risk management, contingency plans, clear and concise advice and ensure switching is operating in a timely and safe manner

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

- Certificate of Technology (Electrical) /Certificate IV Electrical/Associate or Advanced Diploma Electrical Engineering or equivalent tertiary based qualification - desirable
- Sound experience in the operation of Sub Transmission, Distribution HV & LV Networks, and working experience of VESI and company operating procedures, practices and outage planning
- Knowledge and understanding of construction, maintenance and testing activities associated with an electrical network including protection and control schemes.
- Working understanding of VESI & Company Operating procedures, practices and outage planning
- Strong IT system experience, attention to detail, high customer service and communication skills, and the ability to successfully work within a high performing team

**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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