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- An exciting opportunity to be a part of Sydney Water’s Capital Works Programme, which is a $34 Billion Infrastructure upgrade project
- Fulltime 2 years fix term contract with generous salary package + benefits on offer
- Join our growing team to deliver essential services for a sustainable and prosperous water future
Everyday Sydney Water is providing world-class water and wastewater services to the over 5 million people who call Greater Sydney home. We have an extensive capital delivery program to ensure we can continue to deliver for our customers, both now and in the future.
About the role:
In this role the Senior Modeller will be responsible for creating & maintaining complex, Water (Hydro-dynamic & quality) models and Odour & Corrosion (O&C) models and providing technical input into model creation projects, need specification development, design, delivery and operationalising of new complex models.
The role also provides technical advice & support for the assurance and stewardship of the end-to-end Modelling process, including business support of their respective modelling platforms & tools.
About you:
- An Engineering and/or Science degree qualification with 5+ years’ experience or proven equivalent industry experience
- Strong understanding of complex model services, practices and procedures
- Effective leadership, management, and interpersonal skills
- Strong verbal and written communication & negotiation skills
- Strong engineering or science background particularly relevant to water industry
- Strong project management skills including organisation, planning & execution to meet project milestones and also SLA deadlines for modelling outputs
- Strong knowledge and experience with technical input into model creation projects, including need specification development, design, delivery, operationalisation, and acceptance of new complex models
- Strong working experience in the use of complex models to assess system/asset performance, identify performance gaps, set performance targets and benchmarks, then make recommendations that balances cost, risk and outcomes in an efficient & sustainable way
- Strong technical expertise in managing the creation and maintenance of complex models for use as a planning support tool to undertake servicing strategies, detailed planning (options reports), investment plans, renewals need assessments (and sizing), operational / shutdown planning, investigation of complaints, compliance reporting etc
- Strong experience in understanding/interpreting business needs and outcomes using modelling platforms/tools to provide information and advice to strategist, planners and other information consumers
- Strong knowledge of statistics and demonstrated experience using statistical packages for analysing large datasets (Excel, SPSS, SAS etc)
Why our team like working at Sydney Water:
- Huge multi-billion-dollar program of work which shapes Australia’s busiest and largest city. It’s rewarding!
- Positive team culture which celebrates wins and binds together to face challenges (have we told you were the No.1 company in Australia for graduates!)
- Flexible working arrangements, to give you fair work/life balance.
- We want your perspective and ideas to help us find better ways to delight our customers, so we encourage you to apply no matter your age, gender, or culture.
- Be part of a committed, highly skilled team who’ll appreciate what you bring to the table. You’ll set and achieve real goals and make decisions that matter, as together we help shape the lifestyle of greater Sydney
We see the world is changing, so we are changing too.
Our vision is to create better lives through world-class services, and we believe that starts with our people. Our people and their jobs are as diverse as the communities we serve. Our diverse skills, mindsets and backgrounds work together on exciting and challenging projects that make a difference and help ensure Sydney remains one of the most iconic and liveable cities in the world.
We welcome and encourage applications from diverse backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTQIA+, people with disability, people with caring responsibilities, and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
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Do you think you are up for the challenge? We would love to hear from you! Please submit your resume, cover letter outlining your experiences and respond to the screening questions as part of the application.Please see the position description for the role’s full accountabilities.