Dam Instrumentation Specialist

Ready to make a splash in your career? WaterNSW is seeking multiple experienced** Dam Instrumentation Specialist (Full Time, Permanent)** to join our team in **Parramatta**.

This is an opportunity to work with an essential organisation creating a more sustainable future for the state.

This role offers the flexibility to work around life, your contribution will be valued, and you'll be supported to build a rewarding career.

**Our** **perks** **and Benefits**:
At WaterNSW, we believe that our employees should be as well taken care of as our rivers, dams, and pipelines, that's why we offer a load of benefits.
- Flexible working
- Work a 9-day fortnight at Full pay on the Enterprise agreement
- Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave
- Fertility leave
- Yearly corporate wear allowance
- Professional development and educational assistance
- Salary range starting from: $131,851.00 base + Super
- And so much more

**What** **you**'**ll** **do**:

- Perform routine audits and health assessments of existing instruments performance, reliability and efficiency, and investigate and report on departures or opportunities for improvement; provide ongoing training to operators in reading and calibrating monitoring instruments to ensure the instruments are used correctly and maintained as per the standards.
- Lead projects involving the augmentation to existing, or installation of new dam monitoring instrumentation systems
- Implement field data collection procedures and practices; implement quality assurance (QA) rules and notification procedures; report deviations outside approved limits including potential causes so as to initiate investigations and corrective action by the Dam Safety Engineers; monitor and report QA performance.
- Ensure that accurate, timely, clear and concise monitoring instrumentation data is available to meet organisational requirements; identify, analyse, investigate and provide recommendations on key changes, opportunities and risks relating to maintenance and dissemination of dam monitoring data.
- Undertake the analysis of whole of life-cycle instrumentation asset costs and recommend cost minimisation measures.
- Provide strategic governance associated with instrumentation monitoring including designs, standards, product selection, operation, maintenance and skill requirements to meet dam safety monitoring activity standards.

**What we are looking for**:

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Science, or demonstrated relevant experience
- Experience in the design and/or installation of geotechnical and dam instrumentation for the purpose of performance monitoring.
- Demonstrated skills in monitoring data management, including quality of data and its interrogation and extraction for reporting.
- Analytical and investigative skills and the ability to read and interpret data trends.
- Ability to produce practical asset plans based on an array of requirements and balancing the asset management life cycle activities including operations, maintenance and capital works.
- Demonstrated experience in database management and manipulation, instrumentation, electrical and electronic and communication systems.
- Current NSW Drivers Licence.

**Who is **WaterNSW**?**

WaterNSW operates the state's dams, capturing and storing water, and then supplying it ready for distribution - for the environment, agriculture, industry and the community. With 41 major dams and hundreds of waterways across the state, we play a vital role at the source of the state's water, delivering two thirds of all water used in NSW.-
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