Manager, Bushfire

Manager, Bushfire & Resilience role at AusNet AusNet is the link between renewable energy sources and local communities, playing a key role in the clean energy transition and providing essential energy to every Victorian family. Purposeful work with genuinely good people. That’s refreshing. Overview The Manager, Bushfire & Resilience will shape and deliver AusNet’s bushfire mitigation and resilience strategies. With a strong focus on asset risk reduction and climate hazard modelling, this role drives meaningful change across our network to improve safety and reliability. 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. 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. Responsibilities Development and implementation of both the resilience and bushfire strategies; Establish and maintain a governance structure around bushfire risk reporting to ensure transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement; Tracking and monitoring fire start information; Updating climate hazard exposure modelling in line with regulatory time periods; Ensuring AusNet Services attains ALARP status for Bushfire Safety; Identify and champion cost‑efficient investment opportunities for bushfire mitigation and oversee end‑to‑end project management to ensure successful delivery; Monitoring and reporting of pre‑summer bushfire activities for senior leaders and/or the Board; 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; Establish a strong bushfire culture within the organisation, ensuring the adoption of a bushfire focus amongst all employees through continuous education and engagement initiatives. Qualifications and Experience Relevant qualification and experience in Engineering, Asset Management and/or Bushfire Mitigation; Demonstrated years of experience in a safety, compliance, risk management or audit role, preferably within the energy utilities sector, oil and gas or mining; Experience in developing and implementing company‑wide strategies; Strong leadership capability to lead and build small teams to drive continuous improvement; Experience in translating climate‑related exposure hazard into asset management interventions; Strong data analytics acumen (FME preferred), with experience transforming data into strategic business projects and insights; Emergency Response 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. Many ways exist to 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. Benefits and Perks Flexibility : whether this is hybrid work, flexible hours, or part‑time arrangements, we’ll work with you to help balance work and life; Leave : more than typical personal leave and a generous 14 weeks of paid parental leave, with no minimum service; Community giving : a paid day to volunteer with our social impact partner, Foodbank, or for a cause that matters to you; Perks : 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. Seniority level Mid‑Senior level Employment type Full‑time Job function Strategy/Planning and General Business Industries Services for Renewable Energy and Utilities Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at AusNet by 2x #J-18808-Ljbffr