Trade Waste & Backflow Prevention Specialist

Central Highlands Water; Ballarat; Hybrid; AUD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Central Highlands Water in Ballarat, Victoria, offers a hybrid work opportunity within a public sector team dedicated to providing high-quality water services. The role focuses on trade waste and backflow prevention, ensuring customers comply with approvals and regulations while maintaining strong stakeholder relationships.

Ideal candidates will have a Certificate IV or higher in a relevant field, solid knowledge of trade waste management, and the ability to adapt quickly to responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualifications (Certificate IV minimum) in a relevant discipline and/or extensive water infrastructure, water and sewerage systems, trade waste management and wastewater treatment experience in a similar public sector organisation.
• Demonstrated capacity to quickly develop level of knowledge and understanding to effectively carry out key responsibilities.
• Strong scientific background or understanding of trade waste management, treatment process risks and requirements.
• High level computer competency utilising a range of business applications; and
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills to build positive working relationships and rapport with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Ensure CHW’s customers (typically commercial) are aware of and comply with their obligations set out in their approval to connect / agreements and relevant regulations, primarily in relation to trade waste and backflow prevention.
• Be a point of contact for CHW’s customers with a particular focus on managing relationships with, and programs relating to, customers within trade waste and backflow prevention programs.
• Ensure CHW meets its regulatory obligations and compliance frameworks for trade waste management and backflow prevention that includes to protect CHW’s sewerage assets and the environment from unauthorised disposal of non-compliant wastewater, and to protect CHW’s water supplies from contamination from reverse flows from within a property.
• Support and where required participate in engagement programs with customers that includes, but is not limited to, trade waste, backflow prevention and water efficiency.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Computer literacy

Communication skills

Safety culture awareness

Education

Certificate IV (minimum) in a relevant discipline

Job description

Central Highlands Water in Ballarat, Victoria, offers a hybrid work opportunity within a public sector team dedicated to providing high-quality water services. The role focuses on trade waste and backflow prevention, ensuring customers comply with approvals and regulations while maintaining strong stakeholder relationships.

Ideal candidates will have a Certificate IV or higher in a relevant field, solid knowledge of trade waste management, and the ability to adapt quickly to responsibilities.