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About the role

As a Depot Operations Manager (also known as "Field Leader - Colac" internally), you will be overseeing the delivery of overhead and underground works programs, including construction, maintenance, and restoration activities assigned to the workgroup. It requires leading a team of employees, contractors, and service providers with specialised technical expertise in both overhead and underground systems.

The position is accountable for ensuring all work complies with network service standards and client requirements, with performance evaluated across key metrics such as health and safety, environmental compliance, schedule adherence, quality, and cost efficiency.

Key responsibilities

• Lead multi-discipline lines teams (including resource partners) on electrical construction projects.
• Ensure the effective utilisation of resources to meet timeline, quality, HSE, network reliability and cost targets.
• Provide local operational leadership for the site and manage related customer and stakeholder communications (enquiries, complaints, issues etc).
• Support business planning initiatives including HSE, network reliability, human resources, sub-contract, financial and operational functions.
• Ensure delivery of construction projects within schedule, cost, HSE and quality requirements.
• Develop capabilities of the resources in terms of technical skills and behaviours to meet current and future workload requirements.
• Manage overtime and stand-downs to meet workload requirements whilst balancing corporate financial and HR requirements.

For more information on the role's responsibilities, please click here to download the position description.

What you'll need from day one

• Demonstrated experience in leading and managing skilled field teams and industrial relations.
• Technical understanding and working knowledge of overhead and underground electrical distribution assets, construction and maintenance operations.
• Commercial acumen needed to effectively monitor and manage project performance.
• Working knowledge of construction and field services management techniques for improving construction performance in aspects of HSE, cost, schedule, quality compliance.
• Proven communication and coaching skills - ability to coach, support, direct and delegate construction team members appropriately.
• Qualification in an electrical distribution trade, or relevant.

Key Benefits

We're proud to offer an inclusive, supportive workplace where everyone feels safe, valued, and empowered to grow. Some of our benefits include hybrid work options, purchased leave, 15 weeks of gender neutral primary parental leave, health and wellbeing subsidiary, career development and planning opportunities, and exclusive discounts. Visit our company website to learn more.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion to support a fair workplace for all

We are committed to building a safe, inclusive, and supportive workplace where people of all genders, ethnicities, sexual orientations, abilities and ages are valued for who they are and empowered to do their best. Through our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategy (DEI), Reconciliation Action Plans and initiatives like Women in Power and Sparkle, our LGBTQIA+ allies network, we're working to create equal opportunities for all. We are proud to be a WORK180 Endorsed Employer for Women. Explore our partnership with Work180.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and experiences, and strongly encourage First Peoples, women, people from the LGBTIQA community, culturally and racially marginalised people and people with disabilities to apply. We recognise how people from marginalised groups can face extra barriers and self-select out of recruitment processes. With this in mind, we're committed to making reasonable adjustments to ensure a positive, barrier-free recruitment process.

What's next

Submit your application via our careers' website by 12 November 2026. To make a confidential reasonable adjustment query, please contact Luke Castro from the Talent team at [email protected]

We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected and supported to succeed. By making sure our workplace is physically and mentally safe, so that our people can be their authentic selves, share their unique perspectives and can thrive.