Field Supervisor

**Field Supervisor - Picton**:

- Location: Picton, WA, AU, 6229
- 7 Feb 2025

In this role, you will be Responsible for the daily supervision and coordination of operational field crews in conducting planned and unplanned network activities to ensures all assigned field-based work is completed in a safe, reliable, and efficient manner.

This position is at Picton Depot supervising crews at Picton and Collie Depots.

**Your Role in Action**
- Coach safety representatives, prepare and present at safety meetings and practice safe work principles.
- Arrange site inductions for crews and contractors.
- Take accountability for safety in the work environment for yourself and others by ensuring the teams and contractors follow safe work practices and maintain a safe work environment that is monitored through an onsite presence.
- Ensure workers have required competencies to perform the tasks
- Evaluate and accept 4-7 week works packages from Works Program and Planning
- Develop and prepare work execution plans.
- Distribute on-site work activities to teams, ensuring that the workload is appropriately distributed.
- Responsible for review and sign off for all time sheets, including approving overtime hours to be worked and validating hours registered on the time sheets.
- Conduct on site safety inspections and provide coaching and mentoring to teams.
- Conduct on-site inspections and quality assurance tasks to ensure that work undertaken by Western Power teams and contractors is consistent with organisation policies and standards.

**What Makes You a Great Fit**
- Relevant and current trade-based qualification in a discipline such as Distribution / Transmission Overhead Certificate 3 Distribution
- At least 10 to 12 years demonstrated, extensive and broad technical experience in networks or transmission/distribution industry, including appropriate licenses or certificates of competency
- Highly developed teamwork and customer focus skills
- Demonstrated experience in the implementation and execution of operation plans
- A sound knowledge of networks construction maintenance and operations field practices
- Incident investigation skills and sound knowledge of WHS Regulations.
- Highly developed teamwork and customer focus skills
- Advanced written, verbal and report writing skills
- Experience in negotiation, conflict resolution and managing
- public and stakeholder relations
- Computer literate: Ellipse, MS Office suite -Word, Excel,
- PowerPoint
- Valid WA Driver’s License Class ‘C’ or ‘C-A’

By joining Western Power, you will contribute to powering a cleaner energy future. We are dedicated to fostering career development and promoting a healthy work-life balance, empowering you to drive innovation as we develop a network that will serve the Western Australian community for generations. You will also benefit from a range of perks and opportunities, including:

- Over 50% of our employment opportunities are driven by career progression.
- 9-day fortnight
- The opportunity to purchase up to four weeks of additional leave per year.
- Access to salary packaging, social club activities, and discounted health insurance and gym membership.
- An award-winning employee recognition and benefits programme.
- An innovative team culture that’s enabling the transition to renewable energy and decarbonisation.
- In addition to standard leave, enjoy two wellness leave days each year.

**Applications** **close on 21 February 2025.