Distribution Technical Advisor

Provide technical advice in ensuring safe water quality supply to customers
- Fixed Term development opportunity
- $112,195 per annum + Super

**About the role**

As a Distribution Technical Advisor, you will provide operational support to ensure water quality processes and requirements is implemented across operations state-wide.

You will support stakeholder engagement and performance reporting to ensure that our drinking water quality requirements is met across all our water supply schemes. You will collaborate with a team of technical experts in water quality to support operations to deliver safe water quality in accordance with our health requirements.

**Who are we?**

When you join Water Corporation, you play an important role for the people of WA. Our services are essential for life - everyday, millions of Western Australians rely on us to deliver and manage water across our state.

If you’re driven to make a meaningful contribution, you’ve come to the right place.

**Real benefits that matter**
- Real flexibility with options to work from home, 9-day fortnight, flexible work hours
- Two well-being days each year to do whatever you need to do to feel good
- Access to long service leave pro rata after 3 years of service
- Generous co-contribution superannuation scheme, which offers up to 15.5%. This includes an 11.5% standard employer contribution, plus an additional 2% employer co-contribution that matches your own 2% contribution.
- Purchase additional leave of up to 12 weeks or work 4 years at a reduced salary and take the fifth year off as paid leave

Discover more benefits we offer to support the unique and individual ways our employees live.

**What you can expect with this role**
- Act as technical contact with water quality laboratories regarding laboratory processing of samples, water quality analysis and data transfer.
- Provide technical support to the regions with sampling support and Water Quality Management System alerts and violations.
- Undertake operational and strategic drinking water quality reporting.
- Provide technical input to, and assist with, the enhancement of drinking water quality management and operational reporting systems.
- Provide drinking water quality advice in relation to technical enquiries and operational issues.
- Support the drinking water Technical Working Group.
- Support the monitoring and auditing of water safety plan requirements.
- Undertake drinking water quality focussed projects and tasks, as required, contributing to the implementation of the Drinking Water Quality Framework.
- Develop and review of Corporate drinking water quality processes.

**Your skills and experience**

For this role, we are looking for great talent with:

- Ideally, you would have water quality and/or public health experience.
- You will have substantial experience in water quality management processes, or a tertiary qualification in science, engineering, or equivalent.
- You have the ability to follow defined processes and be accurate to make sure tasks are completed carefully.

If you are interested in the above opportunity, please submit a covering letter and resume that best demonstrates your skills and experience as well as your ability to meet the requirements of the role.

**Applications close 5**th** February 2025**

As part of the recruitment process you will be required to complete Pre-Employment screening which may include a medical, qualification check police clearance and Australian working rights check.

**_ We reserve the right to withdraw this ad prior to the closing date._**

**Our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace**:
Diversity and inclusion are more than words. They guide us on building a thriving workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers and our community.

We are committed to ensuring an accessible and inclusive work environment to enable people with disability to participate fully in all aspects of employment.

To read our diversity and inclusion statement, please visit our website