**_Permanent full-time position_**
**_Starting salary $95,438 - $118,953 (dependent upon experience/qualifications) plus superannuation_**
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**Our organisation**
We take pride in our place in the Gippsland community. We are a quality essential service and support the health, safety and wellbeing of our community and staff. We are a significant employer in the region, working closely with our stakeholders towards an increasingly prosperous Gippsland.
We are innovative and committed to ensuring that Gippsland Water remains a great place to work. We do this by:
- Offering a flexible and stimulating workplace and investing in our people to enable us to adapt to the changing needs of our business and our region.
- Building the capability and culture of our people into a more highly skilled, professional, customer focused and efficient organisation.
- Building a diverse and inclusive organisation, where our people feel safe to bring their full and authentic self to work.
We also provide a range of employee benefits that will make your experience working at Gippsland Water both professionally and personally rewarding.
**The role**
This role supports the Senior Water Resources Engineer in both business as usual activities and in delivering on strategic actions to ensure we are able to meet our supply reliability level of service commitments now and into the long term.
The position is directly accountable for leading the coordination of technical information that supports planning for water resource needs and what system augmentations and actions will be required to maintain levels of service and provide for future growth. Key data and information are utilised to predict water resource shortfalls and any operational configuration changes that should be considered for best outcome for our customers. The role promotes the embedding of concepts relating to cost of service, climate change, energy use, carbon emitted, and severe climate events into water resource planning.
**What you'll bring**
- Tertiary qualification in an appropriate engineering or scientific discipline.
- Experience working in a technical role in infrastructure management and/or water resources planning.
- Understanding of hydrologic and hydrogeologic processes and systems and the development of water resources strategies, asset and system plans.
- Well-developed interpersonal skills and the ability to liaise with employees, consultants, authorities and contractors.
- Self-motivated and demonstrated ability to embrace innovative solutions and challenge technical policies and standards to achieve goals.
**Freedom**
We offer a variety of adaptable arrangements to suit our employees' varied needs and the business, including purchased leave, varied start and finish times, working from alternative locations and accrued days off. We understand that Gippsland Water and our customers benefit from enabling our employees to achieve balance in work and life.
**How to apply**
For specific enquiries relating to this position, please contact **Jolyon Taylor, Senior Water Resources Engineer on 0428 381 846.**
**Please note that if you do not fully address the selection criteria you may be excluded from being shortlisted for further progression in the recruitment process.**
Shortlisted applicants may be required to undertake a pre-employment medical and a National Police Check.
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