Senior Technology Implementation Specialist

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Essential Energy is an organisation that values your voice, empowers your autonomy, recognises the strength in diversity, and prioritises your well-being while offering attractive remuneration and benefits. Take pride in having a meaningful impact on regional, rural and remote communities while being a pivotal player in the energy industry's future.

About the role   

The Senior Technology Implementation Specialist role provides project management and implementation expertise to successfully deliver highly complex technology-based changes required to support Essential Energy business units in achieving identified outcomes and benefits. 

This role will manage a team of dedicated and shared delivery and change resources to deliver a pipeline of technology initiatives and ensure effective management of financials, status reporting and adherence to governance and compliance requirements. 

This role is permanent contract and can be based anywhere within Essential Energy's operational footprint, with the ability to work from home. 

About You   

You are a highly skilled professional with a proven track record in leading people and diverse specialist technical teams within Information Technology environments. Your background includes successfully managing complex technical change initiatives, projects, and programmes in large-scale enterprises—ideally within IT and Data. Experience with data-driven projects and a strong grounding in Agile methodologies will be highly regarded.

In addition to this you will have skills in: 

• Proven leadership and management skills in a technology change environment  
• Ability to accept responsibilities and accountabilities and be focused on delivering technology change enablers for Benefits realisation  
• Strong understanding and experience in project management processes, governance and related methodologies 
• Highly organised and able to manage competing priorities
• High level interpersonal skills with the ability to influence outcomes in an organisation with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities in a changing environment  
• Strong communication skills with the ability to prepare executive and board level submissions 

Required Qualifications    

• Bachelor Degree of Information Technology or demonstrated capability through past employment experiences and/or relevant qualifications.  

Why Essential Energy

We offer competitive remuneration commensurate with skills and experience.
Essential Energy provides employees with a broad range of benefits through our corporate partnerships with organisations such as Qantas, Optus, nib and Mildura Health Fund. You will also gain access to our Health and Wellbeing programs including fitness passport. Visit our employee benefits page for more information.

We are proud to be recognised as a WORK180 Endorsed Employer for All Women.  

An energy network doesn't just keep the lights on… it's a living network that needs to adapt to new and emerging energy generation technologies while still meeting the energy needs of customers.   

 It requires innovation, commitment, and collaboration to bring people together to solve the energy delivery challenges of the modern world.   

 Your potential will be realised, and you'll feel a real sense of purpose and satisfaction knowing you have a pivot role to play in delivering the energy of the future to the people who need it today. 

For further information please contact Paul Betenson, Senior Program Manager on

Applications close on Sunday 23 November at 11.55pm. 

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