Careers

Our people

We employ approximately 580 employees including approximately 70 part time staff (471 FTE). Our employees come from a range of disciplines including:

accounting
customer service
engineering
financial management
human resources
information technology
marketing and communications.

We are committed to investing in our people. This includes internal and external training and a dedicated Human Resources program to ensure a happy and productive work environment.

In recent surveys, our staff offered many positive reasons for working at Yarra Valley Water - but most of them rated 'the people' as the top reason for enjoying work here. If you'd like to know more about why our people like it here, read their stories for yourself.

Kate
Manager Field Systems - Field Maintenance

What I enjoy about Yarra Valley Water: The people and the culture.
Exciting projects I'm working on: Developing a new process to manage customers with chronic sewer problems. Developing a new process to provide feedback to all customers who report a water fault to Yarra Valley Water.
My favourite benefit is: Proximity to home and the flexibility of working hours.

Virginia
Planning Engineer - Sustainable Growth Planning

What I enjoy about Yarra Valley Water: The people and the culture at Yarra Valley Water make it a very enjoyable and supportive workplace. Additionally the customer and the environmental focus placed on the work done and decisions made align with my own priorities.
Exciting projects I'm working on: In my current role as a graduate I have worked extensively on an interim servicing strategy for the Epping North catchment involving over $100M of infrastructure. Additionally I have collated, submitted and revised a Works Approval Application to the EPA for an upgrade to the Wallan Sewerage Treatment Plant. The Application was approved and work has now commenced on the site.
My favourite benefit is: There are a number of benefits I enjoy at Yarra Valley Water, especially the Time Off in Lieu days, as well as the monthly Reward and Recognition and Friday afternoon drinks.

Anthony
Operational Liaison Services Manager - IT Operations

What I enjoy about Yarra Valley Water: I like working at Yarra Valley Water as it provides a relaxed working environment while being focused on delivery of quality services to its customers.
Exciting projects I'm working on: Single Sign-on. We are currently starting a trial of a single sign-on solution that will enable Yarra Valley Water Staff to access various applications without the need to input a username and password every time.
My favourite benefit is: There are some really great packaging options. I’m able to package up my car and reap some great tax benefits!

Rita
Senior Project Manager - Sustainable Growth Planning

What I enjoy about Yarra Valley Water: People are friendly and approachable, new ideas are listened to and explored, working conditions are flexible, cycle-friendly facilities are available.
Exciting projects I'm working on: Trialling alternative water and sewerage servicing strategies. These include large-scale onsite recycling, nutrient recovery (urine capture and reuse) and other ‘decentralised’ technologies.
My favourite benefit is: Getting a sense of achievement from seeing my projects getting implemented… funny how exciting a sewerage main can be when you had a hand in designing it!

Simone
Support Officer - Recruitment & Employee Services

What I enjoy about Yarra Valley Water: The people. I find that the culture at Yarra Valley Water is one I have never experienced before. There are a phenomenal number of opportunities in terms of applying what I have learnt at university in a practical sense as well as obtaining an invaluable experience in a business environment.
Exciting projects I'm working on: Working in Learning and Development I have been working on organising and recording training as well as the OCI/OEI culture project.
My favourite benefit is: Being able to apply theories and concepts that I have learnt throughout my degree. Also being able to experience a functional working environment.

Roger
System Administrator - Customer Contact Centre

What I enjoy about Yarra Valley Water: Yarra Valley Water has a friendly and flexible working environment and is only 15 minutes from home.
Exciting projects I'm working on: I am currently working on the Disaster Recovery Project. This replaces the Lilydale back-up site with laptops and mobile phones. To date it has been a challenging but rewarding project.

Asoka
Water Quality Specialist - Infrastructure Planning

What I enjoy about Yarra Valley Water: Yarra Valley Water offers a variety of challenges, a vibrant organisational culture, flexibility, reward and recognition for individual and team achievements and personal development opportunities. Also, the opportunities to interact and work with stakeholders, other water utilities, regulators, Australian and international researchers and experts is great.
Exciting projects I'm working on: Managing and contributing to innovative research projects, developing and implementing water quality improvement programs, managing drinking water and recycled water risk management systems.
My favourite benefit is: Encouragement and support from Yarra Valley Water to make a career shift from a typical Civil Engineer to become a Water Quality Specialist.