Depot Operations Manager in Colac

At CitiPower and Powercor, we’re proud to deliver electricity to 1.9 million Victorian customers every day through our network of poles and wires. We’re here to power communities, support local businesses and keep critical services running smoothly. As Victorians electrify everything from homes to transport, we’re focused on ensuring our networks are ready to meet that demand.

As a Depot Operations Manager (also known as “Field Leader – Colac” internally), you will be overseeing the delivery of overhead and underground works programs, including construction, maintenance, and restoration activities assigned to the workgroup. It requires leading a team of employees, contractors, and service providers with specialised technical expertise in both overhead and underground systems.

The position is accountable for ensuring all work complies with network service standards and client requirements, with performance evaluated across key metrics such as health and safety, environmental compliance, schedule adherence, quality, and cost efficiency.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead multi-discipline lines teams (including resource partners) on electrical construction projects.
• Ensure the effective utilisation of resources to meet timeline, quality, HSE, network reliability and cost targets.
• Provide local operational leadership for the site and manage related customer and stakeholder communications (enquiries, complaints, issues etc).
• Support business planning initiatives including HSE, network reliability, human resources, sub-contract, financial and operational functions.
• Ensure delivery of construction projects within schedule, cost, HSE and quality requirements.
• Develop capabilities of the resources in terms of technical skills and behaviours to meet current and future workload requirements.
• Manage overtime and stand-downs to meet workload requirements whilst balancing corporate financial and HR requirements.

What you’ll need from day one:

• Demonstrated experience in leading and managing skilled field teams and industrial relations.
• Technical understanding and working knowledge of overhead and underground electrical distribution assets, construction and maintenance operations.
• Commercial acumen needed to effectively monitor and manage project performance.
• Working knowledge of construction and field services management techniques for improving construction performance in aspects of HSE, cost, schedule, quality compliance.
• Proven communication and coaching skills - ability to coach, support, direct and delegate construction team members appropriately.
• Qualification in an electrical distribution trade, or relevant.

We’re proud to offer an inclusive, supportive workplace where everyone feels safe, valued, and empowered to grow. Some of our benefits include hybrid work options, purchased leave, 15 weeks of gender neutral primary parental leave, health and wellbeing subsidiary, career development and planning opportunities, and exclusive discounts.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion to support a fair workplace for all. We are committed to building a safe, inclusive, and supportive workplace where people of all genders, ethnicities, sexual orientations, abilities and ages are valued for who they are and empowered to do their best.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and experiences, and strongly encourage First Peoples, women, people from the LGBTIQA community, culturally and racially marginalised people and people with disabilities to apply.

Beon, CitiPower Powercor and United Energy recognise Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples as the First Peoples and Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we work. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and acknowledge their ancient and continuing connection to Country.