Treatment Plant Planner

at  Yarra Valley Water

• Permanent full-time or flexible position opportunity
• An organisation with an award-winning culture that values diversity and inclusion
• Purpose driven and focused on delivering value to customers, community, and environment.
• Hybrid workplace committed to flexible ways of working.
  Are you driven by strategic planning, asset management, and environmental stewardship? Are you passionate about optimising sewage and recycled water treatment plant asset performance and meeting compliance? Join us as a Treatment Plant Planning Engineer, where you’ll lead the development of strategic plans, manage projects, and provide technical expertise to drive operational excellence and regulatory compliance.

ABOUT US

Yarra Valley Water provides essential water and sanitation services to over two million people. We are one of Australia’s largest water utilities with more than 30% of Victoria’s population relying on us 24/7. We’re future focused and continually work to anticipate the changing needs of our customers and stay ahead of evolving community expectations. We’re shifting to a regenerative approach in our work to actively contribute to improving the natural environment we all rely on.
You’ll be working in our Distribution Services Group, a fast paced, dynamic and rewarding operational environment, where we work together to ensure essential water and sanitation services are delivered to our customers and community day in day out. We do this through high quality asset management practices, operational resilience, great partnerships, and highly responsive customer service delivery.

ABOUT YOU

We are looking for someone who is passionate about the role our treatment plants in supporting the community and environment and is experienced in developing and bringing to life strategic plans and asset management strategies within the water industry. If you have the following skills, get in touch:

• 5-8 years experience in the water and wastewater industry.
• Have an engineering or related science background with transferable analytical and planning skills.
• Strategic thinker, who is able to bring together concepts and people to develop integrated outcomes for our treatment plants.
• The ability to plan, initiate and review asset management and sewage treatment strategies, programs, and projects.
• Ability to quickly build effective working rapport with stakeholders to influence decision making, negotiate positive outcomes and ensure business and customer expectations are achieved.
• Great interpersonal skills and ability to deal with a range of key stakeholders including senior management, asset teams, consultants, and partners.

For more details on responsibilities and core capabilities click here.

THE ROLE

Reporting into Luke Curran (he/him), Manager of Treatment Plant Planning, you will be responsible for developing and implementing medium and long-term strategic plans for our sewage, recycled water and stormwater treatment plants and reuse schemes, as well as managing asset management plans to ensure safety, functionality, and compliance. You will lead projects from preliminary stages through concept & functional design, actively monitor environmental and regulatory policies, and provide technical assistance to project development and maintenance teams. Your expertise will contribute to the optimisation of asset performance and ensure Yarra Valley Water provides the best outcomes for community and environment.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop and implement medium and long term strategic service and performance plans for our treatment plants and reuse schemes
• Support our Asset Management Framework through development and delivery of treatment plant asset management plans, maintenance and renewal programmes.
• Manage projects during preliminary & planning phases of capital delivery, including scoping investigations, developing concept and functional designs, and preparation of business cases.
• Facilitate and participate in cross functional teams to define problems, identify opportunities, and develop solutions.
• Be a point of technical assistance during project development/delivery and maintenance activities.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about the role our treatment plants in supporting the community and environment and is experienced in developing and bringing to life strategic plans and asset management strategies within the water industry. If you have the following skills, get in touch:

• 5-8 years experience in the water and wastewater industry.
• Have an engineering or related science background with transferable analytical and planning skills.
• Strategic thinker, who is able to bring together concepts and people to develop integrated outcomes for our treatment plants.
• The ability to plan, initiate and review asset management and sewage treatment strategies, programs, and projects.
• Ability to quickly build effective working rapport with stakeholders to influence decision making, negotiate positive outcomes and ensure business and customer expectations are achieved.
• Great interpersonal skills and ability to deal with a range of key stakeholders including senior management, asset teams, consultants, and partners