Manager, Bushfire

Location:
Victoria, Australia

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time

Description:

When you choose AusNet, you'll join genuine people working together making Real. Progress

At AusNet, we're the link between renewable energy sources and local communities, playing a key role in the clean energy transition and providing essential energy to every Victorian family.

Help us lead the way, while enriching your career with real people who encourage you to bring your best and make real impact – for your career, our communities, and Australia's cleaner energy future.

Purposeful work with genuinely good people. That's refreshing.

The Manager, Bushfire & Resilience will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering AusNet's bushfire mitigation and resilience strategies. With a strong focus on asset risk reduction and climate hazard modelling, this role is about driving meaningful change across our network to improve safety and reliability.

You'll take ownership of our bushfire risk frameworks, identify investment opportunities, and lead the delivery of key projects. As a primary liaison with regulatory bodies, you'll help shape how AusNet responds to growing climate-related challenges. This role blends technical expertise with strategic thinking and requires the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.

You'll also help embed a strong bushfire safety culture across the organisation, ensuring our network operates to the highest safety standards and is well-prepared for future climate risks. It's a unique opportunity to own a portfolio that combines bushfire mitigation, resilience planning, and advanced data analytics, making a real impact on the communities we serve.

With a Hybrid split (Southbank/WFH), this role is based in Southbank working within the Network Management Team

This role will deliver real outcomes, including but not limited to:

• Development and implementation of both the resilience and bushfire strategies;
• Establish and maintain a governance structure around bushfire risk reporting to ensure transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement Tracking and monitoring fire start information;
• Updating climate hazard exposure modelling in line with regulatory time periods;
• Ensuring AusNet Services attains ALARP status for Bushfire Safety;
• Identify and champion cost-efficient investment opportunities for bushfire mitigation and oversee end-to-end project management to ensure successful delivery.
• Monitoring and reporting of pre-summer bushfire activities for senior leaders and/or the Board;
• Development of risk assessment associated with hazard trees and vegetation;
• Leverage advanced data analytics (e.g., FME) and data querying (e.g., SQL) to identify bushfire trends and develop business cases for mitigation measures.
• Establish a strong bushfire culture within the organisation, ensuring the adoption of a bushfire focus amongst all employees through continuous education and engagement initiatives.

You don't need to check every box; however, we are looking for a good combination of:

• Relevant qualification and experience in Engineering, Asset Management and or Bushfire Mitigation

• Demonstrated years of experience in a safety, compliance, risk management or audit, preferably within the energy utilities sector, oil and gas or mining.

• Experience in developing and implementing company-wide strategies
• Strong leadership capability to lead and build small teams to drive continuous improvement
• Experiencing in translating climate-related exposure hazard into asset management interventions
• Strong data analytics acumen (FME preferred), with experience transforming data into strategic business projects and insights

Emergency Response:

Customers and community are at the heart of everything we do. From time-to-time you may be called upon to support an emergency response (e.g. storms, bushfires, floods) to ensure we continue to safely deliver our customers' energy needs. There are many ways you can help support our customers and AusNet responders during an emergency that align to your skills and capabilities. This will be discussed with your People Leader should an event arise.

A real place to belong.

We celebrate unique voices, refreshing perspectives and diversity in our team. Engage and connect through our social club, family day, wide range of events or by joining one of our Employee Network Groups.

We believe in more than just competitive pay. Here's what sets us apart:

• Flexibility: whether this is hybrid work, flexible hours, or part time arrangements, we'll work with you to help balance work and life.
• Leave: more than typical personal leave and a generous 14 weeks of paid parental leave, with no minimum service.
• Community giving: a paid day to volunteer with our social impact partner, Foodbank, or for a cause that matters to you.
• Perks: we offer all the other perks you've come to expect like purchased leave, income protection insurance, novated leasing, corporate discounts, private health cover discounts and more.

As an industry in transformation, we're excited by the possibilities ahead.

So, if you're passionate about our purpose and committed to making real progress, bring your energy and join AusNet. Together, we can shape a new way forward.