Title:  Access Planning Coordinator

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When you choose AusNet, you’ll join genuine people working together making Real. Progress

At AusNet, we’re the link between renewable energy sources and local communities, playing a key role in the clean energy transition and providing essential energy to every Victorian family.
 

Help us lead the way, while enriching your career with real people who encourage you to bring your best and make real impact – for your career, our communities, and Australia’s cleaner energy future.

Purposeful work with genuinely good people. That’s refreshing.

We have amazing opportunities currently available for you in Specialist, Senior and Access Planning Coordinator roles that will be responsible for overseeing the scheduling, coordination, and facilitation of planned electricity distribution & sub transmission network.

Your focus will be on ensuring the safety of personnel, the public and the plant, while also meeting organisational targets, minimising costs, rework, and the impact on customer supply reliability.

Enrich your career with real people who encourage you to bring your best by applying today!

With a Hybrid split, this role can be based in any of our major depots and is part of the Access & Outage Planning Team

This role will deliver real outcomes, including but not limited to:

• Supporting the scheduling and coordination of network access requests across the electricity distribution and sub transmission networks
• Facilitate safe and secure access to the network for planned works (e.g. for maintenance or installation of assets)​.
• Develop a detailed knowledge of network operations, switching arrangements & network topology.
• Develop, assess, modify and submit high quality, accurate and effective Switching Schedules for approval for planned and emergency works.
• Review and approve network access applications and switching schedules.
• Liaise with field resources, HV customers as well as other authorities (as required) to ensure effective planning of network access requests.
• Assess, develop and submit customer planned outage notifications.
• Take action to minimise customer impact from planned outages, balancing number of customers against operational cost and risk in line with company procedures and policy.
• Liaise with the Customer and Community Engagement Team regarding planned outage notifications ensuring business and customer needs are satisfied.
• Ensure all activities are executed to achieve safety and environmental targets with a culture of continuous improvement fostered across all areas of performance.

You don’t need to check every box; however, we are looking for a good combination of:

• Training or qualification in Electrical Engineering, Diploma/Advanced Diploma of Electrical Engineering, Electrical trade or any equivalent is highly desirable or comparable industry experience.
• Knowledge and understanding of the Electricity Distribution & sub transmission Network elements, operational policies, procedures, reporting and codes of practice.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the Code of Practice on Electrical Safety in the VESI (The Blue/Green Book), supplementary Instructions, operating principles, procedures and practices and or relevant experience with working in a VESI environment
• Basic knowledge of construction, maintenance and testing activities associated with system plant.
• Electrical operational switching knowledge associated with an electricity distribution network.
• Electrical operational knowledge to enable writing of switching schedules to accommodate AusNet Services policies and procedures related to safe access to the electricity network.
• Applied experience with a Distribution Management System advantageous.
• Demonstrated owner’s mindset to prioritise decisions that put AusNet first, assessing and managing risk, considering how actions contribute to AusNet’s brand, reputation (public view, regulators, shareholders) and success.
• Stakeholder management experience in liaising with entities who have high voltage connections.
• Enable accelerated culture change fostering care, curiosity and connection through a tangible and measurable “Listen, Learn and Act” approach to employee feedback that aligns with the Values of Ausnet

A real place to belong 

We celebrate unique voices, refreshing perspectives and diversity in our team. Engage and connect through our social club, family day, wide range of events or by joining one of our Employee Network Groups.  

We believe in more than just competitive pay. Here’s what sets us apart:

• Flexibility: whether this is hybrid work, flexible hours, or part time arrangements, we’ll work with you to help balance work and life.
• Leave: more than typical personal leave and a generous 14 weeks of paid parental leave, with no minimum service.
• Community giving: a paid day to volunteer with our social impact partner, Foodbank, or for a cause that matters to you.
• Perks: we offer all the other perks you’ve come to expect like purchased leave, income protection insurance, novated leasing, corporate discounts, private health cover discounts and more.

As an industry in transformation, we’re excited by the possibilities ahead.

So, if you’re passionate about our purpose and committed to making real progress, bring your energy and join AusNet. Together, we can shape a new way forward.

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