About us:

CitiPower and Powercor Australia are electricity distributors and supply power to more than one million Victorians. We own and manage the technology - poles, wires, meters, and distributed technologies such as storage - that deliver electricity to homes and businesses within Melbourne’s CBD, its suburbs and across central and western Victoria.

About the Role:

The Maintenance Officer provides key technical field expertise and knowledge to assist in coordinating the delivery of the electrical plant maintenance and property programs within PAL and CP zone and distribution substations. This involves the creation, issue and subsequent technical evaluation and closeout of routine and defect job files.

This position is a key member of the Electrical Plant Maintenance team and is expected to assist and add value to process improvement as well as liaising with and managing key stakeholder groups such as Operations / Asset Management / Project Managers / EP&T to ensure all relevant reliability, technical, OH&S and statutory information and requirements are incorporated into Plant or Property maintenance scoping, reporting and feedback to the various groups

This role can be based in Ardeer, Ballarat, Bendigo or Richmond.

What you’ll deliver:

• Interpret data and information including photos from different sources. Ensure projects are scoped, raised and issued to in a timely manner including the preparation of Project approval documents.
  
• Interact with internal and external service providers to ensure all works are delivered in accordance with time, cost and quality requirements.
  
• Liaise with customers and internal clients, where necessary on maintenance matters and provide informative advice or effective referral.
  
• Technical evaluation, prioritisation (as required) and responsibility for initiating and monitoring work status and target date achievement for routine primary plant, secondary systems and property maintenance.
  
• Effectively monitoring all maintenance (Routine, defect and breakdown) activities
  
• Management and timely input into SAP of Primary and Secondary maintenance data
  
• Identify and provide recommendations for process improvements and potential opportunities to add value to the plant maintenance delivery program and to the business
  
• Actively support and gain employee engagement in new or modified processes and systems
  
• Provide technical support to; and liaise with key stakeholders to modify, update or risk assess delivery outcomes
  
• Proactively provide technical feedback to plant engineers or other key stakeholders around plant condition and maintenance