Technical Specialist, Secondary Facilities

It starts with YES!

At Optus, we don’t sit back and wait for the future to happen, we are out there crafting our own path through new technology, innovation, and investment. We are truly a challenger brand, with challenger spirit.

We are seeking a dedicated and skilled Technical Specialist to join our Building Infrastructure Engineering team based in Macquarie Park, Sydney. This role is crucial in maintaining a reliable, stable, and safe equipment environment for all secondary technical facilities. You will be responsible for delivering best practice to minimise operational costs, optimise energy consumption, and ensure the continuous evolution of our infrastructure services to meet current and future demands.

Your day in the life of a Technical Specialist, Secondary Facilities at Optus

• Implement and oversee the delivery of key secondary facilities infrastructure, including power, air conditioning, and building upgrades.
• Provide input into secondary technical facilities site and building maintenance programs.
• Lead the installation, testing, and handover of Environmental Alarm Systems to Operations.
• Develop, handle, and improve stakeholder relations – both internal and external.
• Use project management artefacts to ensure effective outcomes, including resource planning, delivery timelines, and alignment to quality standards.
• Lead in identifying business impacts resulting from project implementation and proactively handle them.
• Provide appropriate resource, reporting, and financial management inputs to ensure on-time delivery.
• Deliver financial submissions and updates to sponsors and senior collaborators in accordance with capital management processes.
• Prepare monthly financial forecasts and reconciliations against budget to ensure forecasting variance is maintained within 10%.
• End-to-end accountability for on-time/budget delivery of projects and change requests.

Your skills to pay the bills

• Qualifications in Electronics/Communications Engineering or Project Management, or demonstrated equivalent knowledge.
• Detailed technical knowledge of telecommunication infrastructure, including optical fibre, coaxial cable, and twisted pair copper technologies.
• Experience in managing projects in multiple remote locations across Australia (this role may require some travel).
• Ability to handle specific work programs, schedules, and priorities from guidance provided by the Manager.
• Ability to implement new and novel strategies and methods to achieve required goals as specified by the Manager.
• Ability to work on multiple deployment programs simultaneously in a team environment.
• Strong customer focus.

Perks we love at Optus

• 3 days in the office, 2 days remote – with flexible hours to suit!
• Inclusive paid parental leave, up to 14 weeks for the primary care giver
• All Optus people have access to resources, webinars and support via the ‘Parents at Work portal’
• Own your own growth by accessing an extensive online and facilitator led learning catalogue – even earn a MBA micro-credential via OptusU (University)
• Connect at work through our colleague-led volunteer groups: Culture Connect, Elevate Women, Disability Network, Express Yourself (LGBTQIA+), United Veterans, Yarn Network, Wellbeing Network and Young Professionals.
• Vibrant campus life, variety of facilities including restaurants, cafes, gymnasium, GP, and post office
• Free Optus bus from Macquarie University Metro Station (every 6-8 minutes); morning and afternoon!

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At Optus, we are strengthened by others and that means valuing diversity and saying ‘yes’ to embracing individual differences. We are committed to ensuring that our application process provides an equal employment opportunity to all job seekers, including individuals from diverse gender, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, individuals with a disability, individuals identifying as being part of the LGBTQIA+ community, individuals who may have served in the armed forces or who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. We also want to do our best to make our recruitment process inclusive. If you require any adjustments or accessibility support to participate fairly and equitably in the recruitment process, please email AccessibleRecruitment@optus.com.au or call 1800 309 170. We're here to help. When you contact us, please advise your preferred method of contact and we will be in touch within 48 hours.

For more information on Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging at Optus, please visit https://www.optus.com.au/about/inclusion-diversity.