WHO WE ARE

In Melbourne, water is essential to our way of life.
As caretakers for Melbourne’s water cycle, we care for water, life and land throughout Melbourne: both its people and its biodiversity.
Each time you drink from the tap, flush a toilet, run through a yard sprinkler, or kayak down the Yarra, we’re there. Primed and ready, quietly delivering some of the world’s cleanest water for over five million residents and wildlife that call Melbourne home, just as we have for over 130 years.
If you value making it count, diving in with curiosity, and doing what’s right, you’re in the right place.

Reporting to DSS Catchment Planning & Engineering Area Manager – West Region, this is a pivotal role within the DSS Catchment Planning & Engineering team.
This is a full time, permanent opportunity to be involved in the preparation of Development Services Schemes (DSS) and to manage critical Greenfield projects that ensure we achieve Melbourne Water’s commitment to Victoria’s Housing Statement.

This is a technical civil engineering role where experience in stormwater, asset design, project management, civil and land development engineering knowledge is preferred.

• Project manage the planning and stormwater design of complex DSS projects such as managing critical precinct-scaled Greenfield projects to enable the delivery of Victoria’s Housing Statement, and project managing the engineering reviews of DSSs to ensure that they are robust from an engineering, finance, cultural heritage and environmental perspective.Our successful candidate will have demonstrated professional
• grounds in end-to-end Project Management and are very proficient and comfortable in managing complex regional design projects to the value of $1m.
• Your civil engineering and project management expertise will be relied upon as you undertake technical investigations, provide clear advice, make informed engineering decisions and exercise sound engineering judgement.
• Experience in project planning means that you can expertly take projects through from planning to delivery. You can identify project risks and have the integrity to flag these that may impact on safety, quality, finance and timelines. You will keep the project/s ‘honest’ whilst keeping Melbourne Water true to its mandate to deliver for these new communities.