Manager Service Enablement ETP

Melbourne Water Corporation; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Melbourne Water Corporation is seeking an experienced Manager Service Enablement for the Eastern Treatment Plant based in Docklands. This full-time role requires strong leadership to manage ETP infrastructure assets effectively.

The candidate will play a vital role in delivering capital programs, alongside ensuring that maintenance strategies are optimally developed and executed. A solid background in the water industry or similar sectors is essential, as is a tertiary qualification in a relevant engineering discipline.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience within the water industry or utilities sector.
• Demonstrated experience leading large, multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Background in heavy industry environments such as manufacturing or mining is highly regarded.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimise maintenance strategies for both new and existing assets.
• Develop preliminary business cases and tender documentation for major projects.
• Ensure condition monitoring programs inform maintenance strategies and capital planning.

Skills

Leadership in multidisciplinary teams

Solutions-focused mindset

Asset management

Process engineering

Education

Tertiary qualification in relevant engineering or technical discipline

Job description

About The Role

We are now seeking an experienced leader to join Melbourne Water as Manager Service Enablement – Eastern Treatment Plant (ETP). This permanent, full‑time role is based at our Docklands Head Office, with regular onsite engagement at the Eastern Treatment Plant. Reporting to the Head of Service Enablement One Water, this critical role is accountable for managing ETP infrastructure assets through the development and leadership of a high‑performing team of process engineers, asset managers and project development resources. You will play a key role in delivering and optimising capital programs and maintenance regimes that support integrated growth, compliance and asset renewal outcomes.

Working closely with Planning, Delivery and Operations, you will lead the development of business plans and maintenance strategies that ensure assets perform as intended and respond effectively when infrastructure and systems are not operating optimally. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a heavy industrial, process‑plant environment, with substantial investment and work programs underway.

• Develop and optimise maintenance strategies for both new and existing assets
• Develop preliminary business cases and ready‑for‑tender documentation for major capital projects at ETP
• Develop minor renewals programs to support ETP’s operational performance
• Ensure condition monitoring programs are developed and delivered to inform maintenance strategies and capital planning

About You

• Tertiary qualification in a relevant engineering or technical discipline (e.g. process, chemical) or equivalent industry experience
• Extensive experience within the water industry or utilities sector
• Demonstrated experience leading large, multidisciplinary technical teams
• Positive, solutions‑focused mindset and the ability to energise teams and drive sustained momentum
• Background in heavy industry environments such as water, utilities, manufacturing, oil and gas or mining is highly regarded
• AusCheck clearance required, as the role is deemed critical under the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018

Melbourne Water is committed to diversity, inclusion and belonging, and welcomes applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, LGBTIQ+ individuals, neurodivergent individuals, people living with disability, mature‑age and young job seekers from all cultures.