Full Time Ongoing
Professional Services Band E: $124,230 – $134,454 per annum plus 12% statutory superannuation.
Location: Negotiable across SRW major offices in Maffra, Werribee and Mitcham
About Southern Rural Water
Southern Rural Water (SRW) is a Victorian water corporation with nearly 170 staff, managing major dams, weirs, water licencing and more from Mallacoota through to the South Australian border. At SRW, we believe that diversity makes us stronger, and we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels respected, valued, and empowered to thrive and contribute to collective success. Through providing a flexible, always safe workplace and promoting employee development, we empower employees to contribute to our strategy of great value for customers and community through excellence in rural water management.
How We Support You
At Southern Rural Water, we recognise and prioritise the wellbeing and fulfillment of our staff members. Here's what we offer to ensure a balanced and rewarding work experience:
- Embrace flexibility: We support various working arrangements including WFH, 9-day fortnights, tailor your work schedule to accommodate for school drop off and pick up hours.
- Generous leave provisions: 15 days sick leave and 14 weeks paid parental leave to support you during life’s important moments!
- Health and Wellbeing: Yearly reimbursement of up to $150 per financial year to support you in physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
- Professional development: We support your growth through a range of internal and external training initiatives and offer study assistance programs to empower you to reach your full potential.
- Employee Assistance Program: Receive comprehensive support for yourself and your family through our employee assistance program.
- Salary Sacrifice: Salary Sacrifice options for vehicles, equipment, and superannuation to enhance your financial benefits.
- See what else we can offer you on our Careers Page!
About the Role
Are you ready to lead a high-performing team and drive excellence in asset management?
Southern Rural Water (SRW) is seeking a Team Leader Asset Management to provide leadership, technical expertise, and strategic direction to ensure SRW’s infrastructure is managed in line with best practice and long-term resilience goals.
In this role, you will lead a multi-disciplinary team of engineers and asset management professionals to develop and implement asset management and asset class plans, renewal models, capital and maintenance budgets, and initiatives that deliver improved customer value. You will play a critical role in shaping our short- and long-term investment strategies, delivering sustainable outcomes that balance financial and environmental sustainability, and maturing asset management practices that are compliant with the Asset Management Accountability Framework.
From concept designs and options analyses through to preliminary business case development, you will guide investment decisions that optimise safety, efficiency, customer value, and system performance. This role offers a unique opportunity to influence infrastructure outcomes that deliver lasting value to our customers and communities.
As the Team Leader Asset Management, some of your responsibilities will include:
- Lead the development and implementation of plans, reports and tools for various stages of asset lifecycle management.
- Drive improved asset management processes and practices across the organisation, ensuring alignment with ISO 55001 and compliance with the Asset Management Accountability Framework (AMAF).
- Provide technical engineering expertise to lead the development of asset planning activities including problem statements, options analyses, concept designs and preliminary business cases, to inform capital delivery projects/programs of work; completed in a timely manner and to meet business requirements.
- Contribute to sustainable asset solutions that optimise safety, operability, technology, cost, customer outcomes, system performances and risk-reduction.
- Developing financial models for assets (e.g., renewal models, lifecycle cost models) to inform short- and long- term capital and operation planning.
About you
The successful candidate for this position will be able to demonstrate some of the desired experience and abilities below:
- Qualification: Tertiary qualification in engineering (civil, mechanical, or electrical) or equivalent, with eligibility for membership of Engineers Australia.
- Experience: 6+ years experience in water industry or asset management. Including demonstrated expertise in infrastructure planning, project management, and lifecycle cost modelling.
- Knowledge: Demonstrated expertise in asset management frameworks, with practical experience in regulatory price submissions to the Essential Services Commission. Knowledge of ISO 55001 and the Asset Management Accountability Framework (AMAF) is highly regarded.
- Communication Skills: Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to simplify technical information for diverse audiences.
- Leadership capability: experience in coaching, performance management, and building collaborative teams.
How to Apply
Applications should be made online by clicking 'Apply' before midnight Sunday 26 October 2025 or by visiting our website: www.srw.com.au
Please take the time to describe how your knowledge, skills and abilities would make you a suitable candidate for this role as part of your cover letter.
A Position Description for this position can be obtained from this link.
Southern Rural Water is committed to diversity and inclusion in employment and is proud to encourage applications from people of different backgrounds, abilities, ages, genders, gender identities and/or sexual orientations.
Southern Rural Water acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands and waters we work with and within, and pay respects to Elders past and present.
We welcome applications from people with disability and aim to provide an inclusive and accessible workplace. If you need any help with the application process or would like to discuss your reasonable adjustments during interviews, please contact: peopleandculture@srw.com.au
