
Technical Officer - Asset Management
Tweed Shire Council
Posted 11 days ago
Manage and maintain the Water Supply and Wastewater Infrastructure Asset Register and Maintenance Systems, ensuring integration with Council systems and asset management plans, while conducting detailed analysis and reporting for operational and performance insights.
About the role:
- Operate and maintain the Water Supply and Wastewater Infrastructure Asset Register, ensuring integration with Council’s corporate systems including GIS, Property, Finance and Asset Management Plans.
- Perform in-depth interrogation, analysis and reporting of water and wastewater asset data to meet both internal and external information requirements.
- Liaise with external auditors and the Water Unit Business Accountant regarding the commissioning and decommissioning of water and wastewater infrastructure assets.
- Support the development and implementation of asset management plans and procedures, particularly those related to asset data collection and maintenance.
- Report directly to the Water Unit Asset Engineer and contribute to strategic planning and performance monitoring of water and wastewater infrastructure.
What's on offer:
- a base salary ranging from $72,400 per annum with competency-based increments up to $85,001 per annum, plus 11.5% super
- a maximum-term contract up to 36 months, with the possibility of extension or permanency subject to performance, funding and operational need
- 70 hour, 9 day fortnight
- training and development opportunities
- flexible work options for a healthy work/life balance
- generous employment conditions (we have too many to list - click here for more).
We are seeking:
- Tertiary qualifications in Asset Management, Engineering, Business Administration or a related field, and/or significant relevant work experience.
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel and Access, for data management and reporting tasks.
- Proven experience in data extraction, analysis and reporting, ideally within an asset management or infrastructure context.
- Solid understanding of Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Assets, including their operation and lifecycle management.
- Strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with both field-based and supervisory staff.
About us:
- Located on the picturesque far North Coast of NSW, bordering the Gold Coast.
- The Tweed is a vibrant, diverse location offering a lifestyle near the water, in a rainforest or on a farm.
- Tweed Shire Council is committed to employment equity and diversity and encourages applications from people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds in both traditional and non-traditional roles. We provide workplace adjustments for people with disability, and access to flexible work options.
- Join an employer of choice. Professionals Australia (Local Government Engineers’ Association) has named Council the 2021 Employer of Choice for our great employment practices within NSW local government.
Where it's located:
This position is based in Tweed Heads and can be directed to work from any Council work site.
Position closes:
Friday 6 June, 2025, at 12 noon sharp (NSW time). Late applications will not be permitted.
SK97188A
OFFICE USE ONLY
About Tweed Shire Council
Tweed Shire Council is the largest council on the north coast of New South Wales, Australia. Covering an area of 1300 square kilometres, the Tweed adjoins the local government areas of Byron, Lismore, Kyogle, Scenic Rim and Gold Coast, with the NSW–Queensland border to its north where it divides the twin towns of Tweed Heads and Coolangatta.
Council is the largest employer in the Tweed with a workforce of more than 750 employees across a wide range of professions. Through a budget of about $256 million, Council delivers more than 50 services to 41,500 ratepayers and almost 100,000 residents who call the Tweed home.
In late 2021, Council was named Employer of Choice by Professionals Australia (Local Government Engineers’ Association) for its great employment practices within NSW local government.
Professionals Australia recognises what workers throughout the region already know – people choose to work at Tweed Shire Council when presented with other employment opportunities due to its:
employment terms
great workplace culture
amazing location.
Aboriginal Acknowledgement – Tweed Shire Council wishes to recognise the generations of the local Aboriginal people of the Bundjalung Nation who have lived in and derived their physical and spiritual needs from the forests, rivers, lakes and streams of this beautiful valley over many thousands of years as the traditional custodians of these lands.
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