Title:  Emergency Management Training & Exercise Specialist

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.

Become part of a critical team that will guide Ausnet to rapidly mature and provide outstanding strategic level technical and operational capabilities, whilst ensuring cross-business coordination and collaboration.

In this role as an Emergency Management Training and Exercise Specialist, you will be responsible for analysing training needs, developing, coordinating and delivering training and awareness programs for employees with a role in the Incident Management Team and Crisis Management Team and those likely to perform a surge capacity or volunteer role. This pivotal role ensures that rosters for key incident and other related roles are accurate, employees are adequately trained, and emergency management awareness across the organisation is improved

This role can be based in Southbank and is part of the Operations and Emergency Management team.

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

• Conduct thorough assessments of the organisation's emergency management training needs, focusing on critical infrastructure resilience and Incident Management.
• Gather and analyse data on past incidents, with a view to identifying related improvements in emergency response procedures.
• Perform a review of incident and crisis management and surge and volunteer role training requirements ensuring training is based on roles and requirements.
• Contribute to the development of an Emergency Management Framework.
• Develop a comprehensive and needs based emergency management training program based on the ADDIE Model and tailored to the organisational needs.
• Design scenario-based training modules and micro learns to address a range of requirements including emergency management induction and the organisational approach to managing incidents and crisis.
• Create emergency exercises across the BUs to maintain compliance with the Emergency Management Act
• Ensure all training content is aligned with real-world scenarios and the unique needs of the organisation’s critical infrastructure.
• Facilitate training sessions, workshops, and drills for emergency management teams, ensuring clear communication and engagement.
• Develop an annual schedule, along with a three-year plan for emergency management exercises including those needed in the lines of business.
• Collaborate with emergency management teams, infrastructure managers, and other departments to align training goals with organisational needs.
• Provide recommendations for strengthening emergency management and critical infrastructure resilience arrangements.
• Maintain accurate and up to date on call rosters for identified incident and crisis management roles.

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

• Demonstrated industry experience (in emergency management, training coordination, or relevant fields)
• Tertiary qualification or formal training in emergency management, or another relevant field would be advantageous, particularly:
  • Course in the Australasian Inter-Service Incident Management System
  • Design Emergency Management Exercises (PUAEMR031)
  • Manage and Evaluate Emergency Management Exercises (PUAEMR036)
• Experience with “Learning Management Systems”, SCORM and CBT Modules
• Program Coordination/Scheduling and Training Plan developments
• Proven experience in emergency management of critical infrastructure assets in a regulatory environment will be beneficial
• Technical knowledge or understanding of energy transmission and distribution networks will be beneficial
• Significant experience in coordinating and leading training programs and sessions essential
• Contribution to the implementation of emergency response and operational excellence initiatives experience.
• Ability to manage stakeholders at all levels of seniority and technical / emergency response knowledge and understanding
• Experience managing large teams, rosters, or complex scheduling programs
• Exposure to creating and managing online training modules and materials
• Skilled in building and maintaining healthy working relationships with varied stakeholders

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.