Permanent Full-time

• Hobart based

Location

Based in Tasmania's capital, historic Hobart will be a great base for the incumbant to reside in order to take up this role.  The region is situated on the scenic river Derwent with stunning world heritage wilderness areas just a stone's throw away.  Enjoy a relaxed lifestyle with easy access to the world class events like Dark Mofo and The Taste of Tasmania.

The Role

• TasNetworks operates within a highly regulated environment. The Team Leader NEM Strategy & Compliance is responsible for working with stakeholders to develop TasNetworks’ electricity industry regulatory and compliance strategy. This includes managing (proactively and reactively) TasNetworks’ input to National and Tasmanian electricity supply industry policy and regulation frameworks related to technical and operational regulation. It involves working with the Compliance and Risk team to manage business compliance within regulatory frameworks.

• This role is responsible for monitoring the external environment to proactively understand and manage emerging regulatory issues and reduce the regulatory burden. This role is instrumental in ensuring that TasNetworks is successful in achieving its key cultural objectives of accountability, commercial focus and sound decision-making in an environment characterised by change, complexity and ambiguity.

The Challenges

• Operating in a developing and changing environment, including a dynamic and complex regulatory environment
• Maintaining effective external stakeholder relationships with key energy policy, rule-making and regulatory bodies, customers and peer businesses
• Establishing effective internal stakeholder relationships to ensure line management awareness of and involvement in, as required, market reform activities and industry compliance
• Monitoring and managing regulatory affairs, protecting and promoting Tasmania’s electricity operating environment and seeking to minimise unnecessary regulation where possible
• Establishing efficient practices that support material compliance with industry obligations

The Team

TasNetworks commenced operations on 1 July 2014. It has been formed by a merger between Aurora's distribution network (the poles and wires) and Transend's network (the big towers and lines). TasNetworks supplies the power from the generation source to homes and businesses through a network of transmission towers, substations and powerlines. We also:

• build, maintain and operate the network
• establish new connections where infrastructure does not currently exist
• respond to, and repair, outages and faults
• operate and maintain a 24-hour fault call centre
• read, replace and repair your meter
• provide education, advice and information about electrical safety
• deliver nationally accredited training to line worker apprentices, contractors and sub-contractors, local councils and civil construction organisations
• own and operate a telecommunications business that serves customers in the electricity industry and other industries.

Our vision is to be 'Trusted by our customers to deliver today and create a better tomorrow'.

If you meet these skills and qualifications we look forward to receiving your application online. For further information about this role please contact kirstan.wilding@tasnetworks.com.au

TasNetworks is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity, that is, the application of merit when making decisions that affect people in the workplace.

The application of equal opportunity (also referred to as the merit principle) means that recruitment, remuneration, promotion and access to training and development will be determined on the basis of relevant skills, experience, qualifications, knowledge, aptitude and the potential for future development of the individual.  This precludes the consideration of any personal characteristic or attribute that is not relevant to the inherent requirements of the job.