Waterways & Catchment Operations Roles

**Job Number**:

- 977617

**Work type**:

- Fixed Term Contract, Permanent Full Time, Permanent Part Time

**Location**:

- Brooklyn Office, Melbourne - South Region, Melbourne - Eastern Region, Melbourne - Northern Region

**Categories**:

- Environment, Management, Operations and Maintenance, Other, Planning

**Our Organisation**:
We love water and love life. What we do makes a vital contribution to Melbourne’s famous lifestyle. We achieve this by supplying high quality drinking water, providing outstanding sewerage services, integrating drainage systems, building resilience to flooding and by enhancing our waterway and land for greater community use. It’s a pride we share in helping to make greater Melbourne a fantastic place to live.

**The Role**:
Due to growth within our organisation we have a number of exciting full time, part time and fixed term opportunities within our Waterways & Catchment Operations team. These roles will be working across Melbourne and our wider catchment areas, these include: Peninsula and Koo Wee Rup team based from our South East Regional Office, and our Western teams based at our Brooklyn Depot, as well as our Central team based from our North East Regional Office in Croydon.

These various roles include Leading Hands, Environmental Field Crew, and Maintenance and Civil Crew. If you have a passion for the environment, love working outside and have a ground or keen interest in horticulture, environmental science, landscaping, land management or civil construction then we are wanting you to join our dynamic team.

You will be working along Melbourne’s beautiful waterways and wetlands across the regions, in customer facing roles that contribute to enhancing the livability for all Melbournians. These roles will see you working alongside other environmental enthusiasts to deliver the maintenance project works across our waterways and land assets. Your ability to take care of your colleagues and your own Health & Safety will see you succeed within this role.

**Make an Impact**:
Become part of a talented and passionate team dedicated to enhancing life and liveability in Melbourne and beyond. Doing truly meaningful work in a supportive and inclusive culture that encourages you to make the most of your talents.

We provide a range of employee benefits that will make your experience working at Melbourne Water both professionally and personally rewarding.

**Freedom**:
Melbourne Water is committed to flexible working. We offer a variety of flexible arrangements to suit our employees varied needs and the business, including purchased leave, varied start and finish times, working from alternative locations, part time work and 9-day fortnights. We understand that Melbourne Water and our customers benefit from enabling our employees to achieve balance in work and life.

**Growth & Development**:
We’re a curious bunch at Melbourne Water and relish any opportunity to learn something new. We are in the business of enhancing life and liveability, which lends itself to re-imagining what’s possible and challenging the status quo. We offer a variety of learning opportunities; from formal development programs, digital learning content and lunch & learns; to visiting our sites and getting to see our initiatives and projects first hand. We believe that learning happens every day, so we support our people to continuously learn and experiment in the flow of their work, designing their own development path.

**People**:
**Your Skills and Experience**:

- Experience in natural resource management or civil asset maintenance/project works is highly regarded
- Problem solving skills, including the ability to deliver the appropriate outcomes
- Sound interpersonal skills and an ability to communicate clearly and effectively with a wide range of people both within Melbourne Water, external organisations and with the general public
- Ability to work under pressure and in emergency situations
- Ability to work proactively as a member of the team, contribute fully to team decision-making and take responsibility for own role in ensuring the safety of all team members and other personnel on site
- Proven ability to work and contribute in a team environment to improve processes, respond to various demands and manage multiple activities simultaneously
- Demonstrated experience and capabilities working with and leading a team in a civil, natural resource management and/or land management, construction/maintenance environment. (Leading Hand roles only)
- Accountable for meeting specified quality, timeliness, budgetary and compliance requirements. (Leading Hand roles only)
- Chainsaw qualification and chipper use will be highly regarded
- Heavy rigid license, hoe and excavator tickets would be an advantage
- A Coxswain certificate would be highly regarded
- A valid Victorian Driver’s license is required for these roles

For more information, please see the attached Position Description:
Position Descripti