Waterways & Land Officer

**Job Number**:

- 977498

**Work type**:

- Fixed Term Contract

**Location**:

- Melbourne - Docklands

**Categories**:

- Engineering, Environment, Operations and Maintenance, Other

**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.

Reporting to the Team Leader Regional Services (Maribyrnong Team) you'll have the opportunity to make a difference and add to our work environment, within a place where you can learn and perform to your fullest potential.

**The Role**:
We currently have two, five month fixed term contracts. As a Waterways & Land Officer you will provide custodianship for waterway, flood, drainage and land assets through the safe and efficient initiation and delivery of Waterways and Land (W&L) services and programs within a discrete geographic area. This will include initiation and review of capital and operational works as well as providing internal development advice and planning referral responses.

You will also provide a program-level customer relationship interface with external and internal customers (across relevant segments) within your nominated area and facilitate the resolution of escalated customer issues that aren't able to be resolved rapidly. You will work with a range of stakeholder with a strong focus on recruitment of landholders into our incentive programs.

**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**:

- Demonstrated ability to build and maintain strong customer relationships
- Ability to adopt an organization-wide perspective and capability to influence and lead external and internal stakeholders
- Experience in waterway, drainage and land asset management, natural resource management, waterway planning and rehabilitation practices, and with statutory planning processes
- Analytical and problem solving skills, including the ability to determine and adapt management approaches for a broad range of waterway, drainage and land management situations
- Well-developed 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, sometimes in conflict situations
- Well-developed negotiation skills with the ability to facilitate mutually agreed outcomes
- Demonstrated ability to work and contribute in a team environment to improve processes, respond to various demands and manage multiple activities simultaneously
- Demonstrated project and contract management skills and the ability to supervise consultants
- Demonstrated ability to use initiative and innovation in a range of tasks
- A proactive, solutions-focused, continuous improvement mindset and demonstrated resilience
- A graduate qualification in environmental / natural resource management, science, social science or engineering is advantageous but not essential.

Your ability to establish and maintain collaborative working relationships with internal and external stakeholders is required together with a qualification in Environmental Management, Environmental Science, Science or Environmental or Civil Engineering.

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