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Working across Operations, Safety and Technical functions, you will improve the governance, processes, systems and ways of working that support prescribed activities across the network lifecycle.\nThis is a unique opportunity to shape an important organisational capability and lead a team delivering meaningful change across the business.\nYour Role in Action\nLead, coach and develop the Work Practices Team by setting clear objectives, managing performance, building capability and creating a collaborative, accountable and improvement-focused team culture.\n\nDevelop and maintain the enterprise Work Practices Program roadmap, delivery schedule, resource plan, budget and performance reporting arrangements.\n\nLead delivery of the Work Practices Program and priority work practice packages to agreed scope, schedule, budget, quality and implementation requirements.\n\nLead the identification and mapping of prescribed activities and establish clear alignment between work practices, training, competency, authorisation and verification requirements.\n\nProvide governance and decision-making leadership for work practices and supporting safe systems of work, drawing on specialist advice to translate electrical safety, WHS, technical and operational requirements into practical requirements for prescribed activities.\n\nEnsure work practices include the required critical risk controls, reflect how work is performed and provide clear, practical direction to workers and supervisors.\n\nEstablish clear alignment between work practices and the information, instruction, training, supervision, competency and authorisation requirements that support their implementation.\n\nLead multidisciplinary consultation with operational, technical, engineering, training, contractor and SHE stakeholders to test advice and establish clear enterprise decisions for work practices.\n\nEstablish arrangements to verify that work practices are implemented, remain adequate for the prescribed activities and are reviewed when work, risks, legislation or technical requirements change.\n\nWhat Makes You a Great Fit\nTertiary qualification in safety, engineering, project management, business or a related discipline, or an equivalent level of relevant experience and knowledge\n\nExperience leading multidisciplinary professional or technical teams in a complex, high-risk operational environment.\n\nSignificant experience developing, governing or implementing operational work practices, safe systems of work, technical standards or operational procedures.\n\nDemonstrated experience leading complex enterprise projects or programs and delivering agreed scope, schedule, budget, quality and benefits.\n\nDemonstrated ability to translate legislative, technical and operational requirements into practical, clear and usable frontline requirements.\n\nStrong stakeholder engagement, facilitation and influencing skills, including the ability to resolve competing requirements and reach agreed outcomes.\n\nDemonstrated ability to interpret specialist technical advice, identify unresolved risk or conflicting requirements, make sound decisions within role authority and escalate matters where technical or enterprise authority approval is required.\n\nDemonstrated capability in governance, resource planning, risk and issue management, change implementation, reporting and contractor management.\n\nBy joining Western Power, you will contribute to powering a cleaner energy future. We are dedicated to fostering career development and promoting a healthy work-life balance, empowering you to drive innovation as we develop a network that will serve the Western Australian community for generations. You will also benefitfrom a range of perksand opportunities, including:\nOver 50% of our employment opportunities are driven by career progression.\n\nFlexible work arrangements to support working hours and working from home arrangements.\n\nThe opportunity to purchaseup to four weeks of additionalleave per year.\n\nAccess to salary packaging, social club activities, and discounted health insurance and gym membership.\n\nAn award-winning employee recognition and benefits programme.\n\nAn innovative team culture that’senabling the transition to renewable energy and decarbonisation.\n\nIn addition to standard leave, enjoy threewellness leave days each year.\n\nAccess to end-of-trip facilities at our Perthoffice, perfect for cyclists.\n\nOn-site café available for convenient meals and refreshments throughout the day.\n\n22 weeks paid parental leave and 5 days of First Nations cultural leave to support family and cultural connections.\n\nApplicationsclose on 28October 2026\nWe value diversity and inclusivity, encouraging applications from all backgrounds, including women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and LGBTQIA+ communities. As a WORK180 -endorsed employer for women, we are proud of our commitment to inclusion. You can learn more about this through our Reconciliation Action Plan and Disability Access and Inclusion Plan.\nLearn more about Western Power here: About (westernpower.com.au)\nFind out how we’rebuilding A Network for Life: A network for life (westernpower.com.au)","description_format":"text","description_chars":5606,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Flexible schedule","Gym membership","Health insurance","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Power Grid"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-16T00:12:49Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":56,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.747,"p_room":0.75,"age_days":13,"expected_fill_days":14,"reasons":["conf:1","win:late"],"computed_at":"2026-10-27T05:46:45Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/western-power-work-practices-team-leader","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/western-power-work-practices-team-leader.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-27T23:12:08Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":15139,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-28T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":40900},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=40900"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fwestern-power-work-practices-team-leader"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fwestern-power-work-practices-team-leader"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fwestern-power-work-practices-team-leader"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/western-power-work-practices-team-leader\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fwestern-power-work-practices-team-leader"}]}