About the Bureau
We are Australia’s weather, climate, water, oceans, and space weather agency. Our work touches the lives of all Australians every day.
Our products and services include observations, forecasts, warnings, analysis, and advice. They cover Australia’s atmosphere, water, oceans, and space environments.
The Bureau operates under the authority of the Meteorology Act 1955 and the Water Act 2007. We also fulfill Australia’s international obligations under the Convention of the World Meteorological Organization and related international meteorological treaties and agreements.
Read the Bureau of Meteorology Strategy 2022–27 to find out more about our organisation and the work we do for all Australians.
Working at the Bureau
The Bureau represents a dynamic and exciting opportunity. At the Bureau you will:
- do meaningful work that brings real benefits to the Australian community, businesses, and government.
- work with dedicated experts and professionals who constantly seek to improve the services we provide to our customers.
- work in excellent workplaces in a variety of great locations. You'll have access to the latest technology in a diverse, safe, and inclusive environment for everyone.
- experience our commitment to learning, growth, training, and clear career pathways. You'll receive competitive salary and benefits.
Position overview
We are seeking two enthusiastic and qualified Electronics, Electrical or Instrumentation Technician or Engineer, ideally with previous field experience. All our technicians are trained across multiple instrumentation networks; however, an immediate focus is to build additional capability to support our RF and radar operational infrastructure.
Who are you?
You have an appetite for working in remote locations, so a willingness to travel is essential.
You are a suitably qualified team player who likes to get hands-on in the field, and the prospect of seeing many parts of Australia excites you.
Who are we?
The Brisbane Observing Operations Hub are part of eight Bureau of Meteorology's premier technical Operations centres.
Staff based at the Brisbane Observing Operations Hub travel far and wide and into remote areas, utilising 4WD's, planes, boats, and helicopters to maintain service delivery within the various instrumentation networks. This includes:
- Rain Radars
- Automatic Weather Stations (AWS)
- Upper-Air monitoring systems (Sounding Balloons)
- Sea Level Monitoring Stations
- Wave and Wave height buoys
- Satellite ground reception and space weather instruments
- Flood warning/rainfall monitoring systems
- Cooperative observers, volunteer rainfall stations
- Communications, telemetry, and instrumentation systems
We are part of a national maintenance workforce and there is every likelihood of travel to other parts of Australia on occasion to support the other seven Hubs around the country.
We offer specialised, in-house competency-based training on all our equipment and will ensure you have the necessary tools and skills to undertake this work.
We strive to deliver exceptional customer service, as we engage with stakeholders, contractors, support staff and the Australian public.
We promote a diverse and inclusive workplace culture that prioritises the health, safety, and wellbeing of all our staff.
You will report to and be mentored by a Team Lead in the Observing Operations Hub.
The key duties of the position include:
- Maintenance & Operations: Undertake routine and detailed operational diagnostics, fault finding, repair and return to service of moderate to complex field equipment. Verify the performance of meteorological instruments against calibrated reference standards. At a medium level of difficulty, take, record and report observations from meteorological systems. Undertake site inspections and document the meteorological exposure and maintain associated records.
- Asset and Service Management: Support a strong asset management culture and consistent usage of enterprise asset management system (Maximo) to accurately record asset information, asset performance and issue stakeholder communication. Adhere to service management processes based on the ITIL framework and work to meet service level targets for maintenance completion and outage restoration response times.
- Documentation & Record Keeping: Prepare operational and technical maintenance reports and associated documentation. Undertake administrative tasks such as finance reconciliations, procurement, inventory records, stores, and stock control.
- Travel & Incident Response: Regular travel away from your home base by air, sea and road is an essential part of this role. Field work and incident response support may require working outside of normal business hours including weekends, for which over-time and other allowances are payable.
- Supervision: Mentor, manage, supervise, and develop junior staff.
- Data Quality: Manage Observation network data quality through remote monitoring. Diagnose and triage faults within the Observations networks as they arise.
- Liaison and Representation: Liaise with various internal and external stakeholders at the appropriate level and represent the Bureau in a professional manner in accordance with Australian Public Service values and Code of Conduct. Respond to queries on observing assets in your area of responsibility and provision of asset information and data.
- Quality Management: Participate in ensuring the quality and effectiveness of products and services and the ongoing development, implementation, and continual improvement of the quality management system to achieve and maintain the ongoing certification of compliance with the ISO 9001 quality management Standard.
- Other Relevant Duties: Undertake other relevant Hub, station, field, and business duties as required, such as new site selection, installations, decommissioning of assets, project support and work package delivery.
- Compliance: Comply with all relevant legislation, policies, procedures, and guidance in the course of your work.
- Diversity & Inclusion: Understand and promote an inclusive environment that respects and values diversity and complies with the Diversity and Inclusion Statement of Commitment.
- WHSE: Comply with all Bureau work, health, safety and environment policies and procedures, and take reasonable care for your own wellbeing and that of your team members, other employees, contractors, and visitors who may be affected by your conduct.
Eligibility
- Australian Citizenship
- A Certificate III (AQF Level 3 or above) electronics or electrical preferred from an Australian educational institution, OR
- A degree or diploma of an Australian educational institution, or a comparable overseas qualification, which is appropriate to the duties; OR other comparable qualifications, which are appropriate to the duties.
Successful applicants will be required to:
- Hold a current Australian Drivers Licence
- Eligible to obtain and maintain a Baseline security clearance from the Australian Government Vetting Agency (AGSVA)
Getting to know the Bureau of Meteorology
The Bureau of Meteorology is one of the few organisations that touches the lives of all Australians and all Australia, every day. The Bureau works across Australia and remote islands, providing services from the Antarctic to beyond the equator, and from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific. We are Australia's national weather, climate and water agency, in the Agriculture, Water and Environment portfolio of the Australian Government, operating under the authority of the Meteorology Act 1955 and the Water Act 2007. We provide data, information, knowledge, insight and wisdom to help Australians prepare and respond to the realities of their natural environment, including droughts, floods, fires, storms, tsunami and tropical cyclones. Our products and services include observations, forecasts, analysis and advice covering Australia's atmosphere, water, oceans and space environments. We undertake focused scientific research in support of our operations and services. Through regular forecasts, warnings, monitoring and advice, we provide one of Australia's most fundamental and widely used public services. We have strong relationships with our customers, partners and stakeholders in Australia, including the Australian Community and the emergency services sectors, all-levels of Government, and focus sectors including aviation, agriculture, energy and resources, national security and water.