Plant Operations Coordinator

About the role

The Woodman Point Water Resource Recovery Facility (WRRF) is Western Australia's largest resource recovery treatment facility, servicing industrial, commercial and residential customers across Perth's southern metropolitan region. As part of a major sludge treatment upgrade, the facility is entering a new era of operations with the introduction of advanced technologies, including a Thermal Hydrolysis Process (THP) and an enhanced Energy Recovery Facility.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver day-to-day treatment, maintenance and operational activities.
• Lead process troubleshooting, fault finding and optimisation activities.
• Support shutdown planning, commissioning and operational readiness programs.
• Care for maintenance activities and contractor performance.
• Carry out complex isolations in accordance with testing, lockout and permit requirements.
• Maintain plant performance and investigate process anomalies.
• Ensure compliance with operating licences, environmental obligations and safety requirements.
• Support incident response, emergency management and after-hours standby requirements.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that improve safety, reliability and operational performance.

About You

• You are a safety-focused and technically capable operations professional with experience working in complex industrial or process environments.
• You enjoy solving challenging operational problems and driving improvements in plant performance.

Essential Requirements

• Certificate III in Water Industry Operations, equivalent qualification, or significant relevant industry experience.
• Significant experience within a process industry, utilities, major infrastructure, manufacturing or operations and maintenance environment.
• Experience with chemical handling and dosing systems.
• Experience with isolation and tagging procedures, permit-to-work systems and confined space entry.
• Strong fault-finding, troubleshooting and technical diagnostic capability.
• Demonstrated experience working safely within high-risk operational environments.
• Current C Class Driver's Licence.

What You'll Bring

• A positive, can do, results-driven attitude.
• A strong commitment to safety, wellbeing and environmental compliance.
• Proven capability in complex fault finding and process diagnosis.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Sound planning, organisational and decision-making abilities.
• A collaborative, high-performing team-focused approach.
• A continuous improvement mindset.

Why Join Us?

• Work at WA's largest Water Resource Recovery Facility.
• Be part of a major facility transformation and technology upgrade.
• Gain exposure to advanced treatment, thermal hydrolysis and energy recovery technologies.
• Join a supportive and collaborative team environment.
• Ongoing training and development opportunities.
• Make a meaningful contribution to essential services that support communities, industry and the environment.

Real Benefits That Matter

• Real flexibility with options to work from home, 9-day fortnight, flexible work hours.
• Two well-being days each year to do whatever you need to do to feel good.
• Access to long service leave pro rata after 3 years of service.
• Purchase additional leave of up to 12 weeks or work 4 years at a reduced salary and take the fifth year off as paid leave.
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural and ceremonial leave of up to 5 days so you can maintain your cultural connection and wellbeing.