Treatment Plant Project Operator

Position Overview

• Permanent, Full-time opportunity
• True hybrid working – work from home, our Treatment Plants and our Mitcham office
• $110,905.92 - $117,278.19 per annum plus 12% superannuation

We’re on a mission to create a brighter future, where you can be a change maker at the actual source. We’re one of Australia’s largest water utilities with over 30% of Victoria’s population relying on us for their essential water and sanitation services.

Our award-winning culture fosters an inclusive, collaborative, and flexible environment that enables our people to thrive. Here, you’ll be inspired and challenged to grow alongside us.

We're committed to reconciliation and supporting the self-determined role for Traditional Owners/Custodians in water and land management.

The Role

As a Treatment Plant Project Operator, you’ll play a key role in keeping our treatment plant assets running safely, reliably and efficiently. You’ll provide operational and technical expertise to support the planning, delivery and commissioning of projects that improve asset performance and strengthen network reliability.

Working closely with operations, asset planning and project delivery teams, you’ll help ensure operational needs, risks and practical site considerations are built into project decisions from start to finish.

This is a hands-on role that combines project involvement with operational support. When needed, you’ll also assist the Treatment Plant team with day-to-day operational activities.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Operational Readiness - Provide operational input throughout project initiation, design, and delivery phases, including participation in design reviews, HAZOP, CHAIR, and Safety in Design workshops. Review project documentation to ensure safety, maintainability, and asset integration requirements are met, and coordinate with plant personnel to manage operational impacts during construction and commissioning.
• OCCPs, live asset interfaces and shutdowns - Support commissioning and handover activities by witnessing testing, validating operational readiness and performance outcomes, and ensuring operational systems, documentation, asset data, and training requirements are complete. Promote safe design, construction, and commissioning practices, support SIMOPS management, assist with defect resolution and post-handover activities, and provide operational feedback to project and planning teams.
• Operational Support - Support day-to-day plant operations through SCADA monitoring, inspections, sampling and testing activities, while assisting with fault response, emergency operations, and the maintenance of operational records, data, and reporting.

What we’re Looking for

• Experience in operational, environmental or engineering roles within water and/or wastewater treatment environments
• Sound understanding of industrial processes and associated mechanical and electrical systems
• Strong field-based operational knowledge, with the ability to interpret data from instruments, analysers, and monitoring systems.
• Demonstrated experience in equipment and process troubleshooting, fault diagnosis, and implementing corrective actions.
• Knowledge of relevant legal and regulatory requirements, with the ability to monitor performance and drive continuous improvement.
• Confidence using operational technology systems, including SCADA, GIS, and asset management systems (e.g. Maximo), with the ability to extract, analyse, and interpret data.
• Certificate III or higher in Water Industry Operations, or a bachelor’s degree in mechanical or electrical engineering l Engineering
• Current and valid Victorian Driver Licence.

Why Yarra Valley Water?

We celebrate and encourage new thinking at every level. Creating opportunities for you to grow – both professionally, and personally. When you flourish, we all do.

• $110,905.92 - $117,278.19 per annum plus 12% superannuation
• Flexible working arrangements where our people are empowered to design their days with their team. Read our hybrid playbook HERE.
• Free and secure on-site parking with on-site café at our Mitcham office.
• 16 weeks paid parental leave.
• 15 days paid personal leave, which can be used for caring, illness, wellbeing and mental health needs.
• 5 days paid reproductive leave which can be used for experiencing symptoms or undergoing procedures associated with issues such as menopause, menstruation, endometriosis, PCOS, prostate health, or IVF.
• Request to swap certain public holidays for another day of paid leave.

To read more about our benefits and culture, read our employee handbook HERE .

Did you Know?

Research shows that men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, while women and other marginalised people tend to only apply when they meet all of them. So, if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily tick every box, please apply or get in touch. We'd love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit.

How to Apply

Applications should include a supporting Cover Letter and Resume.

Closing date: Friday 26th June 2026

This position is available for Yarra Valley Water employees and external applicants.

We welcome applications from everyone, including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, mature age and young job seekers, members of the LGBTIQA+ community and people of all cultural backgrounds.

If you need this information in an accessible format or would like to discuss reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process. Please call 03 9872 2599 or email ***email_hidden*** .

If you need any help with the application process or would like to discuss the recruitment process, please contact us via email [email protected] .

Successful applicants must be eligible to work in Australia and agree to provide information for pre-employment checks, if required for the position. This may also include a Police Check or AusCheck, where an offer will be subject to a satisfactory outcome of these checks.