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Join our organisation and experience a culture that fosters camaraderie and personal growth, serving and connecting the regional communities of NSW and southern QLD. Enjoy work-life balance and training and development opportunities across a diverse range of career pathways.
This is a secondment / fixed term position for 12 months and can be based anywhere within Essential Energy's operational footprint.
About the role
As the Service Transition Lead, you will ensure that all IT services delivered through programs, projects, and major enhancements are introduced in a safe, reliable, and supportable way that minimises business disruption. You'll be responsible for managing the transition of new services into production, developing support models, and ensuring all governance processes and documentation are completed. This role is pivotal in engaging stakeholders, driving operational readiness, and ensuring a seamless handover of services.
Key responsibilities include:
* Managing the transition of new services, infrastructure, and applications into production, ensuring governance processes are followed.
* Gathering, documenting, and resourcing service level requirements for ongoing support.
* Developing end-to-end support models and operational readiness documentation for new services.
* Ensuring the Service Catalogue and Configuration Management Database (CMDB) are accurately updated.
* Leading stakeholder sessions to identify transition requirements and ensure high engagement and timely acceptance.
About You
You are an experienced IT professional with a strong background in service transition, ITIL, and project lifecycles. Your ability to build effective relationships, influence stakeholders, and manage competing priorities sets you apart. You thrive in dynamic environments, are highly organised, and have a passion for ensuring seamless service delivery and continual improvement.
To be successful, you will have:
* Demonstrated experience in a similar service transition role within an IT environment.
* Strong knowledge of ITIL, ITSM, and project frameworks.
* Proven ability to build and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders, including influencing and negotiation skills.
* Excellent organisational and time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
* Strong analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills, with a focus on innovative problem-solving.
Required Qualifications
- Advanced Diploma of Business, Change Management or Communications
Why Essential Energy
Essential Energy provides employees with a broad range of employee 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 Adrian Harrad-Chantler - Manager, Digital Service Excellence, Digital Services on
Applications close on Sunday 18 January 2026 at 11:55pm.
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