Electrical Supervisor (Signals or ITS)

Ventia; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Ventia in Victoria is seeking a Maintenance Electrical Supervisor (Signals or ITS) to lead safe, compliant maintenance across critical transport assets. You will supervise electricians, technicians and field crews, coordinate planned and reactive works, and drive reliability on the major road network.

Based in Melbourne and other regional sites, the role offers a long-term, high-profile contract with opportunities to develop technical leadership, improve safety practices, and deliver

Qualifications

• A Victorian A Grade Electrical Licence is required.
• White Card (Construction Induction) and a valid driver’s licence.
• Experience in traffic signals, ITS, street lighting, or related infrastructure maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Lead maintenance activities across critical transport infrastructure assets.
• Coordinate planned and reactive works with field crews and subcontractors.
• Maintain high safety, quality and performance standards on site.

Skills

Traffic signals

ITS

Street lighting

Supervising field crews

Fault-finding

Tools

Electrical drawings

Wiring diagrams

Technical documentation

Site layouts

Job description

• Lead critical transport infrastructure across Victoria's major road network.
• Manage diverse teams and maintenance operations with real community impact.
• Grow your career with Ventia on a long term, high profile contract.
• Positions are available across: Melbourne, Mildura, Bendigo, Wodonga, Shepparton and East Gippsland.

About the role

The Maintenance Electrical Supervisor (Signals or ITS) will lead the safe, efficient, and compliant delivery of maintenance activities across critical transport infrastructure assets. Leading field crews and subcontractors, you'll coordinate planned and reactive works, support fault response activities, and ensure services are delivered to the highest safety, quality, and performance standards.

Working closely with operations, engineering, planning, safety, and inventory teams, you'll drive day-to-day service delivery, provide technical leadership in the field, and foster a positive, accountable, safety-first culture. You'll play a key role in ensuring asset reliability, achieving contractual performance targets, and delivering essential services to the communities we support.

About you

• Current Victorian A Grade Electrical Licence, White Card (Construction Induction Card), and a valid driver's licence.
• Experience and knowledge in traffic signals, ITS, street lighting, electrical maintenance, transport infrastructure, utilities, or similar field maintenance environments.
• Proven experience supervising electricians, technicians, subcontractors, and field crews in live operational environments.
• Advanced fault-finding and diagnostic skills, with the ability to interpret electrical drawings, wiring diagrams, site layouts, and technical documentation

About our VIMC Contract

Ventia delivers complex transport infrastructure and technology solutions across Victoria’s major road network. The VIMC contract involves the operation, maintenance and performance management of critical Intelligent Transport Systems, traffic signal assets, communications networks, electrical infrastructure and associated roadside technology across live traffic environments.

These assets include traffic signal sites, signal controllers, lanterns, detector systems, pedestrian facilities, communications networks, CCTV, VMS, vehicle detection systems, over height detection, travel time systems, roadside cabinets, field devices, power supplies and associated network interfaces.

About Ventia

As a leading services provider, we maintain, operate, and manage the essential infrastructure that makes modern life possible across Australia and New Zealand. With more than 35,000 employees and subcontractors across 400 sites, joining Ventia means becoming part of a team that values its people, supports career growth, and helps everyone go further towards their full potential.

Our commitment to Fairness, Inclusion and Respect shapes how we lead, collaborate, hire and support one another. We welcome applications from people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all genders, identities, sexual orientations, beliefs and caring responsibilities. We are dedicated to providing an accessible recruitment process and encourage you to request adjustments at any stage.