Lead Maintenance Engineer

We are currently seeking a Lead Maintenance Engineer for our Camden Wollondilly Hub, which consists of West Camden WRRF, Picton WRRF, Wallacia WRRF, with the recent addition of Sydney Science Park.

The three Water Resource Recovery Facilities receive wastewater from an area of 2,557 square kilometres consisting of townships and rural localities while Sydney Science Park is designed to treat 1.2 million litres of recycled water per day for beneficial use for the Science Park in the Western Sydney Aerotropolis. The Shire is predominantly national park and rural area, with urban areas in fifteen towns and villages. The population of the area has increased from 30,000 in 1991 to 50,877 in 2017 and 54,176 in 2021. The population will continue to increase significantly in years to come with extensive Capital upgrade Projects nearing completion to increase Facility capacities.

You will:

• Lead and support the Production Hub Manager and Delivery Team Leader (the “ROMP’ team) in the 5 Year Investment Planning process.
• Identify newly installed assets for maintenance strategies and data registration in MAXIMO (CMMS)
• Lead the production of an annual Asset Plan for the Hub.
• Drive continuous improvement in asset management, especially in planned and corrective maintenance (including major periodic maintenance).
• Ensure the application of the Maintenance, Major Periodic Maintenance Process, and decision frameworks processes, ensuring they are consistently applied across the Hub.
• Contribute to Maintenance Excellence Standards and Corporate Maintenance and Asset Management strategies.

This is a permanent role based predominantly onsite at West Camden with site attendance required to other Hub Facilities and Parks regularly. Travel to Sydney Water offices in Potts Hill and Parramatta required on occasions.

What’s in it for you. 

• Flexible/Hybrid working.  
• Up to 18 weeks’ Parental leave and Childcare allowances 
•  Novated lease options and onsite parking
• Fitness Passport offering access to hundreds of gyms and pools around NSW. 
• Flu vaccinations and discounted options on health insurance membership providers. 

Department Overview: Sydney Water’s Engineering and Technical Support group provides technical expertise, design and engineering services to the business. The group focuses on the management and delivery of:

• modelling and asset analytics
• concept designs
• asset data management 
• specialist engineering expertise
• environment and heritage planning
• implementation of asset information

This is a great opportunity for an experienced Asset/Maintenance/Reliability Engineer to join Sydney Water’s Camden Wollondilly Hub to provide technical leadership for the management of Production assets, influencing the whole of life asset management needs to ensure they operate to the specified standard of reliability and availability, and meet the ongoing asset management needs of the Camden Wollondilly Hub. The role will provide delivery support across a range of asset upgrade projects.

The Hub Reliability Engineer has a key role as part of the Hub’s leadership team and will involve significant liaison with other key business stakeholders to ensure the Hub’s operational effectiveness, project delivery, and to meet safety standard compliance. 

Who are we looking for? 

• Tertiary qualifications in Engineering (preferably Mechanical, Electrical, or similar) and/or equivalent experience in operations, maintenance/renewals or treatment/quality aspects of water systems.
• Minimum of 6 years’ recent experience with complex asset management applicable to water/wastewater treatment or similar and/ or related engineering field.
• Advanced experience using Maximo, or equivalent CMMS experience.
• Demonstrated reliability centred maintenance, including production of risk-based maintenance strategies and use of reliability tools such as FMECA.
• Demonstrated leadership skills, including experience mentoring team members and proven ability to influence key business stakeholders to meet positive business outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience preparing business case for asset renewals & major periodic maintenance.
• Risk based asset assurance framework (CCP, Statutory and High CoF asset Maintenance)
•  Operational Excellence and Optimisation
• Process resilience workshops based on RBD block diagrams, focus on critical spares management.

Application Closing Date: 11.59pm Sunday 13th October 2024

Working at Sydney Water 

We welcome and encourage applications from diverse backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTQIA+, people with disability, people with caring responsibilities, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and veterans.  

As part of the application process, Sydney Water will be collecting your personal information to assess your suitability for the role. Your personal information will be collected in accordance with LiveHire’s Terms, Privacy Policy and Sydney Water’s Privacy Collection Statement – Job Application. Please note as part of the application process, you will be asked to undergo background checks which includes a criminal history check.   

Please see the position description for the role’s full accountabilities.