Site Operations Manager
Akaysha EnergySydney, New South Wales
Full Time
Posted October 24, 2025
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Job Description
The Site Operations Manager will oversee safety, environmental, and operational systems at a large-scale battery energy storage site, ensuring reliable and compliant operations while collaborating with various stakeholders during the transition from construction to commissioning.
Key Responsibilities
- Establish and oversee site safety, environmental, and operational systems.
- Lead site safety management and ensure WHS compliance through development and oversight of safety and emergency plans.
- Act as the site HV Operating Authority, managing electrical safety procedures, outage approvals, and compliance records.
- Manage stakeholder engagement, including site tours and communication with internal and external parties.
- Coordinate preventative maintenance, equipment outages, and spares inventory to ensure operational reliability.
- Oversee non-electrical site operations and maintenance, including facilities and utilities.
- Collaborate with the project delivery team during transition from construction to commissioning.
Requirements
- Demonstrated capability in safety management and leadership, with a proven track record of leading teams in safety compliance, implementing safety plans, and fostering a culture of accountability.
- Skilled in electrical operations and maintenance, with hands-on experience operating and maintaining high and low voltage systems, as well as proficiency in SCADA and maintenance management tools.
- Strong background in stakeholder management, with experience engaging a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, including technical, commercial, and executive groups.
- Proficient in systems development, with experience designing and embedding safety, environmental, and operational systems aligned with industry standards and best practices.
- Experience in establishing site safety, environmental, and operational systems, including the development and oversight of WHS, environmental, and emergency management plans, hazard controls, and work scope reviews.
- Experience acting as the site HV Operating Authority, overseeing electrical safety through procedure implementation, role authorizations, outage approvals, and maintenance of compliance records and competencies.
- Experience managing preventative maintenance planning, equipment outages, and site spares inventory to ensure operational reliability and compliance.
- Experience overseeing non-electrical site operations and maintenance, including facilities and utilities, while monitoring and reporting on safety, environmental, and performance metrics.
- Ability to collaborate closely with project delivery teams during the transition from construction to commissioning phases.
- Willingness and ability to attend the site during business hours, with the site located in NSW, near towns such as Wellington, Dubbo, and Orange.
Benefits & Perks
Professional Development Support including annual development allowance, internal academy courses
Annual wellbeing allowance
Paid parental leave
Mobile phone allowance
Competitive pay with above-market performance bonuses and long-term incentives
Flexible and hybrid work approach
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