The Australian Government has committed up to $236.0 million over the next 10 years to address critical, long-standing risks in Australia’s flood gauge network in the nation’s most flood-prone regions. The funding will simplify flood warning network ownership and maintenance in high-risk areas, by enabling the Bureau to acquire, upgrade and integrate local government-owned, and some state government-owned, rain and river gauges into its existing flood warning network across Australia.

Flood warning infrastructure enables the Bureau to provide communities and emergency services with riverine flood forecasts and warnings used to support disaster preparedness, response and recovery.

To support this initiative, we are seeking enthusiastic and qualified Hydrographers, Electronics, Electrical, Instrumentation or metrology/measurement science Technician or Engineers, ideally with previous field experience. 

Who are you? 

• You have an appetite for working in remote locations, so a willingness to travel is essential. 
• You are a suitably qualified team player who likes to get hands-on in the field, and the prospect of seeing many parts of Australia excites you. 

Who are we?

The Observing Operations Hubs are the Bureau of Meteorology's Technical Operations centres comprising of 8 Hubs, one in each capital city and Cairns. Staff based at the Observing Operations Hub travel far and wide and into remote areas, utilising 4WD's, planes, boats and helicopters to maintain service delivery within the various instrumentation networks. This includes:

• Rain Radars
• Automatic Weather Stations (AWS)
• Upper-Air monitoring systems (Sounding Balloons)
• Sea Level Monitoring Stations
• Wave and Wave height buoys
• Satellite ground reception and space weather instruments
• Flood warning/rainfall monitoring systems
• Cooperative observers, volunteer rainfall stations
• Communications, telemetry and instrumentation systems

We are part of a national maintenance workforce and there is every likelihood of travel to other parts of Australia. Regardless of home location, you will travel to flood network infrastructure located in QLD and NSW in particular which is the initial focus of the flood network initiative. We offer specialised, in-house competency-based training on all our equipment and will ensure you have the necessary tools and skills to undertake this work.

The Bureau are implementing a talent pipeline recruitment process to create a strong merit pool of candidates to fill current multiple vacant positions and also future roles as they become available over the next 18 months to support the flood warning network. Candidates from diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

For more information and to apply visit http://www.bom.gov.au/careers  Applications must be submitted via the Bureau's Careers portal. Any applications received via email will not be considered.