Leading Technician - Coffs Harbour

Transport for NSW; Coffs Harbour City Council; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Transport for NSW seeks a proactive engineering team lead to manage technicians and subcontractors for tunnel, electrical, and safety systems across the North Region. You will mentor technicians, oversee maintenance, and drive continuous improvements in fault handling and asset reliability.

You must hold a NSW Electrical Supervisors certificate, a valid driver license, and be willing to travel. This full-time role is based at the Coffs Harbour Bypass Tunnels Team in Coffs Harbour.

Qualifications

• Current NSW Fair Trading Electrical Supervisors certificate or equivalent.
• Current and valid Australian driver license and be willing to travel on occasion.
• Knowledge and experience in tunnel or industrial maintenance practices.
• Leadership experience, whether informal or formal, is ideal.
• Availability to assist in overtime-callouts (emergency situations) and be part of an on-call roster.
• Experience in undertaking data collection from field equipment.
• Experience in calibration or testing of electronic equipment.
• Experience in the management of electronic computerised maintenance management systems.
• Proven problem solving and analytical skills with the ability to troubleshoot and identify the nature of computer problems
• Have advanced communicate skills and experience working collaboratively with people at all levels to motivate and influence and build key relations with a wide range of clients and internal and external stakeholders.
• Be solutions-focussed and contribute to a positive workplace culture to inspire your team to deliver customer-centred projects

Responsibilities

• lead a team of technicians and sub-contractors to the repair, test, and maintain traffic management devices, power and electrical distribution (including High Voltage), tunnel instrumentation (including Hazardous Areas), ventilation and fire and life safety systems to ensure safe operation of tunnel assets.
• provide leadership to a group of traffic signal technicians, whilst maintaining a high degree of technical knowledge which you will use to develop and mentor your team
• monitor fault records and field repairs of equipment and provide guidance to the maintenance plans and fault patterns of assets.

Skills

Leadership

Data collection

Calibration/testing

Maintenance management

Problem solving

Analytical

Communication

Stakeholder management

On-call readiness

Education

NSW Fair Trading Electrical Supervisors certificate or equivalent

Job description

You want to play a part in making NSW a better place to work, live and travel.

You've been developing your skills and are ready to work on projects that matter to the people of NSW. You know that quality matters and that delivering results requires a great team.

In this role, you'll:

• lead a team of technicians and sub-contractors to the repair, test, and maintain traffic management devices, power and electrical distribution (including High Voltage), tunnel instrumentation (including Hazardous Areas), ventilation and fire and life safety systems to ensure safe operation of tunnel assets.
• provide leadership to a group of traffic signal technicians, whilst maintaining a high degree of technical knowledge which you will use to develop and mentor your team
• monitor fault records and field repairs of equipment and provide guidance to the maintenance plans and fault patterns of assets.

This is a Full-Time Permanent position, based at in our Coffs Harbour Bypass Tunnels Team in Coffs Harbour and will require regular travel throughout the North Region

For more information on this position and business unit, view the position description and information pack

About you

To be successful in this role, you will have the following:

• Current NSW Fair Trading Electrical Supervisors certificate or equivalent
• Current and valid Australian motor vehicle driver license and be willing to travel on occasion
• Knowledge and experience in tunnel or industrial maintenance practices.
• Leadership experience, whether informal or formal, is ideal
• Availability to assist in overtime-callouts (emergency situations) and be part of an on-call roster.
• Experience in undertaking data collection from field equipment.
• Experience in calibration or testing of electronic equipment.
• Experience in the management of electronic computerised maintenance management systems.
• Proven problem solving and analytical skills with the ability to troubleshoot and identify the nature of computer problems
• Have advanced communicate skills and experience working collaboratively with people at all levels to motivate and influence and build key relations with a wide range of clients and internal and external stakeholders.
• Be solutions-focussed and contribute to a positive workplace culture to inspire your team to deliver customer-centred projects

Who we are

Transport for NSW provides a safe, integrated, and efficient transport system. We connect people, communities and industry every day.

Our workforce is as diverse as the community we serve. If you’d like further information on our inclusion and diversity initiatives, visit Transport careers.

Flexible work optionsmay be available. Learn more viaFlexible work options and policy

Aboriginal people and people living with disability are supported throughout the recruitment process and at work.