Title:  Emergency Manager

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 capability, whilst ensuring cross-business coordination and collaboration. As the Emergency Manager you will lead and deliver an uplift in the organisation’s emergency management capability that supports both crisis and emergency level responses.  

In this role you will be responsible for leading and delivering a cultural change program, along with the uplift required to drive operational excellence in emergency management. You will provide technical subject matter expertise to support the implementation of best practice and embedding of lessons identified from post incident reviews. This role will also monitor compliance to emergency management obligations across all operational and functional areas. 

With a 3/2 hybrid split office / WFH, this role is based in Southbank and is part of the Group Operations team. 

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

• Lead and support the incident response to emergencies, including providing out of hour's support, if required, during events.  

• Manage, embed and sustain a best practice crisis and emergency management framework, (including people capability, process design and supporting system infrastructure). 

• Build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders to enhance practices relating to emergency management. 

• Deliver solutions to address AusNet's emergency management needs with internal staff, contract suppliers and key agencies.  

• Development and maintenance of annual schedule of emergency management activities including external workshops, internal and external exercises, and training delivery. Support the delivery of these events as required.  

• Maintain an ongoing state of preparedness to respond to emergencies (having oversight of the Incident Management Team, Crisis Management Team, and specialist strike teams). 

• Ensure compliance with legislative obligations (state and federal)  

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

• Relevant experience (5-10 years) and/or tertiary course in emergency management, crisis management or organisational resilience. 

• Experience in delivering emergency response capability and uplift programs.  

• Proven ability to bring about cultural change, lead process development and operational excellence in emergency response.  

• Ability to support the delivery of critical services to the community during emergency management circumstances  

• Operational experience or expertise in utilities or other critical infrastructure sector.  

• Knowledge of federal and state regulations and legislation that relate to resilience and emergency management, 

• Highly developed stakeholder management capability with strong written and verbal communication skills. 

• Proven experience leading work across functional areas within an organisation to drive and deliver outcomes  

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.