Our Organisation

We love water and love life. What we do makes a vital contribution to Melbourne’s famous lifestyle. We achieve this by supplying high quality drinking water, providing outstanding sewerage services, integrating drainage systems, building resilience to flooding and by enhancing our waterway and land for greater community use. It’s a pride we share in helping to make greater Melbourne a fantastic place to live.

The Role

Our Senior Planner roles are for highly experienced and outcome-focused professionals responsible for recommending, defending and leading best practice Development Decisions on all types of development application referral requirements for Melbourne Water, primarily where it is the regional Water or Drainage Authority or Floodplain Manager as set out in the Planning, Subdivision and Building Act & Regulations.

This is a Melbourne Water Band 6 / Band 7 role, where the salary depends on your skills and experience when considered against the Position Description.

These experts have operational experience of the theory and application of the Victorian Planning System (including Subdivision) both statutory and strategic, the Victorian Building Surveying System, the Planning & Environment Act, the Subdivision Act and Building Act and their associated Regulations. Their decisions will ensure that new land use and development adequately address flood protection, drainage and storm water quality, waterway amenity and the protection of our built assets, and defending Melbourne Water’s decisions to board, tribunals and courts including the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) and Building Approvals Board (BAB).

This role also requires experience in the application of Development Standards (Building, Engineering and Asset Protection) to planning, subdivision and building decisions, interpreting complex technical flood advice regarding articulation of hydraulic aspects, flood risk and potential measures that could reduce flood risk and balancing this with wider strategic and state development outcomes to ensure safe, well designed and compliant future places and spaces in accordance with state and Melbourne Water policies and procedures, guidelines and processes.

This role will also provide general statutory planning input but not lead or manage - other operational types of land use & development applications and planning scheme amendments, minor capital works projects, and redevelopment projects in the Melbourne Water area. This is a general urban planning & development role where statutory urban planning and development engineering for water knowledge is needed to succeed.

For more information, please see the attached Position Description

How to apply

Click on the "apply" button and complete the online application form.

Closing date: 16th JANUARY 2022 at 11:55pm AEST

Please note a Police Check / Health Assessment is required for this position.

Applicants will be required to provide evidence of their COVID-19 vaccination status.