Senior Civil Maintenance Officer

Central Highlands Water; Maryborough; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Central Highlands Water seeks a Civil Maintenance Supervisor to lead a small team in reactive and proactive maintenance activities across defined hours. The role involves overseeing safety, coordinating resources, and ensuring plant and equipment readiness.

A strong background in civil maintenance and team leadership is essential. The position supports a safety-first culture and offers hybrid work options with potential office presence in Ballarat, Victoria.

Qualifications

• Relevant qualifications and experience as required by the role.
• Ability to work outdoors under varying conditions.
• Strong understanding of OH&S practices for field activities.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day activities of a small 2-3 person work team.
• Manage safety on worksites and allocate resources, equipment, and licences as needed.
• Oversee plant and equipment maintenance to keep crews safe and job-ready.

Skills

Team leadership

Civil maintenance

OH&S knowledge

Outdoor work

Qualifications & experience

Job description

Central Highlands Water is a major regional employer, and we want you to join us!

About us

At CHW we provide drinking water, sewerage, trade waste and recycled water services to residents and businesses in the Central Highlands region of Victoria. We are a public sector employer with a proud history spanning more than 150 years of supporting regional prosperity through service excellence.

Central Highlands Water is a growing business which strives to create a thriving and sustainable region by providing the highest quality water related service to our diverse customer base. This opportunity is a vital role to shape the future of how our services support our community.

To learn more about CHW and how our everyday people contribute to the Central Highlands region of Victoria, visit our website, or check out our LinkedIn or Instagram pages!

The opportunity

The primary objectives of this position are to lead and guide the day-to-day activities of a small work team undertaking reactive civil maintenance activities within defined hours of work as allocated. The position also supports the proactive civil maintenance team activities on an as needed basis.

• Lead and guide the day-to-day activities of a small work team (2-3) undertaking reactive civil maintenance activities and provide on the job coaching.
• Control work sites including safety of workers, ensuring your team has the proper skills and licenses to do the work. Assess work sites and take steps to ensure the correct amount of resources, equipment and plant have been assigned to the work.
• Management of plant and equipment to ensure it is adequately maintained, resourced and cleaned as required to be safe and job ready

About you

Safety is our No. 1 priority, and we expect you will actively contribute to and foster a 'safety first' culture that supports our aspiration of zero harm. This means you care deeply about the physical and psychological safety of people so that our team return home in great shape at the end of the day.

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• Relevant qualifications and experience.
• Physical capacity and ability to work outdoors under a variety of environmental conditions.
• Extensive understanding and working knowledge of OH&S practices relating to field-based activities.
• Demonstrated extensive experience in civil maintenance or construction (minimum of two yearspreferred).
• Demonstrated experience in leading small teams in a field-based environment.

What's in it for you?

Working for one of the region's largest employers you will be part of an organisation that is high achieving, cohesive and always striving for better customer outcomes. We're full of "everyday people" that are great to work with and reflect our community!

We're offering a supportive environment and offer a huge range of employee options and benefits.There's the option of work hybrid, including a mix of being in our office in Ballarat, as well as the flexibility to work from home. Other benefits include accrued time off, generous leave options, professional development, industry collaboration, health and wellbeing programs and a supportive management team.

At CHW you will:

• Have access to training and development opportunities that will further develop your knowledge and skills.
• Be part of an organisation that strongly promotes work life balance, flexibility, safety and wellbeing.
• Work in an organisation that makes a difference to our community.
• Be part of an organisation that cares about you, your safety and wellbeing.