• Oversee day-to-day management of all electrical infrastructure and building condition and maintenance.
• Ongoing, Full-Time opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team
• VPS Grade 4: $95,102 - $107,905 plus superannuation.

The Department of Justice and Community Safety is seeking a Facility and Assets, Electrician to provide a critical role within Corrections Victoria.

About the Business Unit

Corrections Victoria is a business unit of the Department of Justice and Community Safety (DJCS). Corrections Victoria's vision is ‘Safer prisons, safer people, safer communities'. Our mission is to have ‘A safer, smarter system with a skilled and supported workforce, that enables people in our care to make better decisions'.

Corrections Victoria has committed to establishing the Barwon Precinct, which will see shared operating models developed between 4 prisons to improve prisoner outcomes and create efficiencies.

The Facility and Assets group was established as a portion of the Barwon Precinct to provide local and contracted facility and asset management service that has consistent and transparent service levels.

About the Role

The Facility and Assets, Electrician is responsible for the day-to-day delivery of all electrical infrastructure and building condition and maintenance within a multi-disciplinary maintenance team.

The roles require maturity, sound judgement and confidence in decision making, an important facet of the role involves liaison with internal staff and external stakeholders and preparation of analytical and informed contributions to develop and maintain the prisons electrical and building infrastructure.

Some of your duties will include:

• ensure that the Barwon Precinct individual facilities electrical assets records are maintained.
• ensure that the Barwon Precinct individual facilities inventories are maintained.
• administrative compliance for electrical works pursuant to Part 3 of the Electricity Safety Act 1998, and Electricity Safety (General) Regulations 2019.

To learn more about this role before applying, please read the attached position description.

About you

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Respond to reactive maintenance needs within the Barwon Precinct.
• Prepare and maintain programmed maintenance activities within the Barwon Precinct.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Standard of qualifications, proficiency and experience in electrical installation work, to meet the requirements to enable licensure as an A Grade electrician within Victoria.
• Victorian Electrician's Licence (A Grade)
• Satisfactorily completion of the Licensed Electrician's Assessment (LEA) conducted by an assessment centre approved by Energy Safe Victoria (ESV)
• Driver's licence
• A requirement of this position is to be on a maintenance on call roster for out of hours, weekend, and public holidays.

How to Apply

Please click the Apply button on this advertisement. Applications should include a resume and covering letter. Attachments can be uploaded in .doc, .docx, .pdf, .txt or .rtf formats.

The successful candidate will be required to undergo pre-employment checks which may include a Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC) and misconduct screening.

If you require adjustments to the recruitment and selection process, or require an alternative format to any of the application material, please don't hesitate to get in touch with the contact person listed on this ad.

FOR INTERNAL VPS EMPLOYEES:

For this particular vacancy, priority consideration applies to Victorian Public Service (VPS) and select employees of the Victorian Public Sector who apply through the Jobs Skills Exchange (JSE) jobs board platform.

For all VPS employees, due to the new Jobs Skills Exchange (JSE) policy, please apply through the JSE to be eligible to be considered for this position in the first round.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

CHILD SAFE STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT:

The Department of Justice and Community Safety is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and young people. We seek to prevent harm of any kind impacting children and young people and have zero tolerance for racism, child abuse and inequality. Children and young people's rights, relationships, identity, and culture must be recognised and respected, their voices heard, and their concerns acted upon. We aim to foster a culturally safe, child safe and child friendly environment for all children and young people we have contact with, deliver services to, or are impacted by our work.