Contractor Compliance Specialist (CSS Maintenance) – Perth – 12-Month Contract

Join Western Power and play a key role in ensuring the safe, compliant and efficient delivery of contracted works across our network. This role is heavily site-focused, with consistent travelling away for work requirements. You will conduct contractor assurance activities, undertake safety and quality assessments, review contractor documentation and design drawings, and work closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure compliance with Western Power frameworks and standards.

Your Role in Action

Act as Western Power's contractor compliance specialist, providing site-based assurance and compliance oversight across a portfolio of contracted works.

• Conduct site-based contractor assurance activities, including onsite safety and quality assessments.

• Review contractor documentation and ensure compliance with Western Power frameworks, standards and requirements.

• Review and interpret design drawings to support the safe and compliant delivery of works.

• Identify hazards and risks and support the implementation of appropriate controls and corrective actions.

• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders to support successful project outcomes.

• Apply your operational and technical understanding of field-based work practices to support contractor performance and compliance.

 What Makes You a Great Fit 

• Comprehensive experience in contractor management, contract compliance, assurance and audit activities.

• Demonstrated experience within the power, utilities, construction or related industries.

• Relevant trade, engineering, contract management or HSE qualification.

• Strong understanding of safety, quality assurance, hazard identification and risk management principles.

• Experience reviewing technical documentation and interpreting design drawings.

• Well-developed stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to build effective relationships across internal and external stakeholders.

• Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel.

• A proactive and self-motivated professional with strong organisational skills and the ability to work independently.

• Current WA Driver's Licence.

• Desirable: Arborist qualification and/or extensive vegetation management experience.

By joining Western Power, you will contribute to powering a cleaner energy future. We are dedicated to fostering career development and promoting a healthy work-life balance, empowering you to drive innovation as we develop a network that will serve the Western Australian community for generations. You will also benefit from a range of perks and opportunities, including: 

• Over 50% of our employment opportunities are driven by career progression.  

• Flexible work arrangements to support part time work, working hours and working from home arrangements. 

• The opportunity to purchase up to four weeks of additional leave per year. 

• Access to salary packaging, social club activities, and discounted health insurance and gym membership. 

• An award-winning employee recognition and benefits programme. 

• An innovative team culture that’s enabling the transition to renewable energy and decarbonisation.   

• In addition to standard leave, enjoy three wellness leave days each year.

• Access to end-of-trip facilities at our Perth office and South Metro Depot, perfect for cyclists.

• 22 weeks paid parental leave and 5 days of First Nations cultural leave to support family and cultural connections.

Applications close on 11 November 2026

We value diversity and inclusivity, encouraging applications from all backgrounds, including women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and LGBTQIA+ communities. As a WORK180-endorsed employer for women, we are proud of our commitment to inclusion. You can learn more about this through our Reconciliation Action Plan and Disability Access and Inclusion Plan. 

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