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 backyard 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.

About the Role

Reporting to Manager Service Programs the Healthy Waterways Senior Service Planner provides expert advice and support on best practice waterway health improvement with a specific focus on vegetation management. You will be responsible for applying best practice natural resource asset management to the development of investment programs for waterways, delivering on the performance objectives for waterways and vegetation management set out in the Port Phillip and Westernport Healthy Waterways Strategy.

• Work collaboratively teams across the business to develop integrated 5-10 year rolling investment programs that deliver waterway protection and improvement activities across multiple, inter-dependent waterway services.
• Develop and maintain an up to date 20-year capital plan that delivers waterway protection and improvement works with a focus on vegetation management, in line with the Port Phillip and Westernport Healthy Waterways Strategy.
• Apply asset management policies, plans, procedures and standards to waterways, natural environments and vegetation assets.
• Provide ongoing support and advice for teams across the business working to improve waterway health, specifically around best practice vegetation management.
• Input into monitoring and research projects around advancing our knowledge of healthy waterways.
• Work across the Service Programs team and with key external customers in developing and instituting agreed investment and prioritisation processes based on best practice waterway asset management principles. 

For further information, please refer to the attached Position_Description

About you:

• Experience in natural resource management / waterway asset management
• Demonstrated communication and people skills to develop and maintain effective networks with other relevant teams and external stakeholders. 
• Experience in applying relevant environmental and social aspects of waterway management to program planning.
• Experience developing capital and operational investment programs
• Extensive coordination, prioritisation and time management skills to deliver on long-term objectives while managing day-to-day challenges within tight timeframes.
• Apply asset management policies, plans, procedures and standards to waterways, natural environments and vegetation assets.
• Good problem solving and analytical skills.
• Proven judgment working in a complex and multi-agency environment.
• High level communication skills, demonstrated ability to effectively prepare and delivery information to a broad range of in a professional manner.

Why join us:

At Melbourne Water, we care deeply about water and the life it sustains. 

Our team is inspired by passion and purpose, with an unwavering commitment to safety. We are on a mission to protect every Melburnian’s way of life, one drop at a time.   

We don’t just talk about flexible working - we live it. Our culture of purpose, safety, results, and learning flows through everything we do. We're dedicated to doing what's right, and this commitment extends to the meaningful work we do in a supportive and inclusive culture that encourages you to make the most of your talents.  

Our long-standing commitment to Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging means that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, LGBTIQ+ individuals, people living with disability, mature age and young jobseekers from all cultures can apply with confidence knowing they are safe, affirmed, and celebrated.  

If you’re curious, action-orientated, outcomes-focused, and passionate about public resources, community, and the environment, we'd love to receive your application and learn if you could be a great fit. 

How to Apply

Click the 'Apply Now' button below and complete our online application form.

Closing date: Sunday January 12th, 2025, at 11:55pm AEST