Manager, Bushfire & Resilience

Overview

Lead bushfire mitigation, resilience strategy and risk reduction for AusNet's network.

Key Responsibilities

• data analytics
• risk assessment
• project management
• climate modelling
• stakeholder liaison
• governance reporting

Tasks

Customers and community are at the heart of everything we do. From time-to-time you may be called upon to support an emergency response (e.g. storms, bushfires, floods) to ensure we continue to safely deliver our customers’ energy needs. There are many ways you can help support our customers and AusNet responders during an emergency that align to your skills and capabilities. This will be discussed with your People Leader should an event arise. You’ll also help embed a strong bushfire safety culture across the organisation, ensuring our network operates to the highest safety standards and is well-prepared for future climate risks. It’s a unique opportunity to own a portfolio that combines bushfire mitigation, resilience planning, and advanced data analytics, making a real impact on the communities we serve. You’ll take ownership of our bushfire risk frameworks, identify investment opportunities, and lead the delivery of key projects. As a primary liaison with regulatory bodies, you’ll help shape how AusNet responds to growing climate-related challenges. This role blends technical expertise with strategic thinking and requires the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels. The Manager, Bushfire & Resilience will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering AusNet’s bushfire mitigation and resilience strategies. With a strong focus on asset risk reduction and climate hazard modelling, this role is about driving meaningful change across our network to improve safety and reliability. -Establish and maintain a governance structure around bushfire risk reporting to ensure transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement Tracking and monitoring fire start information; -Ensuring AusNet Services attains ALARP status for Bushfire Safety; -Development of risk assessment associated with hazard trees and vegetation; -Leverage advanced data analytics (e.g., FME) and data querying (e.g., SQL) to identify bushfire trends and develop business cases for mitigation measures. -Identify and champion cost-efficient investment opportunities for bushfire mitigation and oversee end-to-end project management to ensure successful delivery. -Establish a strong bushfire culture within the organisation, ensuring the adoption of a bushfire focus amongst all employees through continuous education and engagement initiatives. -Development and implementation of both the resilience and bushfire strategies; -Monitoring and reporting of pre-summer bushfire activities for senior leaders and/or the Board; -Updating climate hazard exposure modelling in line with regulatory time periods;

Requirements

• leadership
• fme
• data analytics
• risk management
• engineering
• asset management

What You Bring

-Strong leadership capability to lead and build small teams to drive continuous improvement -Strong data analytics acumen (FME preferred), with experience transforming data into strategic business projects and insights -Demonstrated years of experience in a safety, compliance, risk management or audit, preferably within the energy utilities sector, oil and gas or mining. -Relevant qualification and experience in Engineering, Asset Management and or Bushfire Mitigation -Experience in developing and implementing company-wide strategies -Experiencing in translating climate-related exposure hazard into asset management interventions

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Benefits

When you choose AusNet, you’ll join genuine people working together making Real. Progress 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. -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. -Community giving: a paid day to volunteer with our social impact partner, Foodbank, or for a cause that matters to you. -Leave: more than typical personal leave and a generous 14 weeks of paid parental leave, with no minimum service. -Flexibility: whether this is hybrid work, flexible hours, or part time arrangements, we’ll work with you to help balance work and life.

About Ausnet

-Moves clean energy—like wind and solar—from rural generators into Melbourne, powering communities and businesses. -Through its Mondo arm, delivers contracted energy services including solar connections and grid-intelligence tech. -Unusual for a network operator, manages both gas and electricity across generation, transmission, and distribution.

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