Treatment Process Officer

Full Time | 6-Month (Potential to Extend)
Location: Statewide - Regular Travel to Far North Sites

Start: Early New Year

Duration: 6 Months (potential to extend or go ongoing)

Capacity: Full time

We are currently seeking a skilled Treatment Process Officer to join a major South Australian Government agency within the Operations & Maintenance division, supporting the Production & Treatment directorate. This role plays a critical part in ensuring safe, compliant, and efficient operation of wastewater, recycled water, and biosolids treatment processes across the state.

This is a hands-on technical role ideal for candidates with strong process knowledge, lab analysis experience, and the flexibility to travel regularly to regional and remote sites.

About the Role

The Treatment Process Officer will provide technical expertise, operational support, and process optimisation across multiple treatment facilities. The role contributes directly to maintaining service quality, ensuring regulatory compliance, and enabling safe, reliable treatment operations.

What's in it for You?

• High-impact role: Make a real contribution to essential public services across South Australia.
• Regional exposure: Work across a variety of treatment plants, including unique far north locations.
• Development opportunities: Strengthen your technical, analytical, and process-optimisation skills.
• Stability: 6-month full-time assignment with potential to transition to ongoing.
• Supportive environment: Work with experienced technical and operational teams.
• Competitive pay: $62.10 per hour, negotiable.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide expert technical advice to support communication, customer trust, and reliable service delivery.
  
• Ensure safety and wellbeing in alignment with WHS policies and procedures.
  
• Deliver technical support for wastewater, recycled water, and biosolids treatment processes.
  
• Assist in developing procedures, operating targets, and best-practice standards.
  
• Conduct laboratory analyses, collect data, and interpret results to maintain and improve plant performance.
  
• Optimise processes and equipment, and engage operators to drive continuous improvement.
  
• Troubleshoot operational issues and support root cause analyses (RCAs).
  
• Meet regulatory, licensing, and quality system requirements.
  
• Participate in performance reviews, team meetings, and contribute to training and development planning.
  

About You

To succeed in this role, you will bring:

• A strong background in chemical processes, laboratory testing, or treatment operations.
  
• Practical technical skills, high integrity, and a solutions-focused mindset.
  
• Flexibility and willingness to travel regularly, including daily or weekly visits to far north sites.
  
• A current driver's licence (mandatory).
  
• Relevant tertiary qualifications in science, engineering, or a related field (highly desirable).
  

Work Location & Travel

The position can be based at any metropolitan or regional office, however the successful candidate must be able to travel frequently to the following far north treatment plants:

• Marla
• Oodnadatta
• Marree
• Leigh Creek
• Hawker
  

A government vehicle will be provided for work-related travel.

If you're a technically minded professional with strong process experience and a passion for supporting essential services in regional South Australia, we encourage you to apply.

At HOBAN we encourage applications from people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people of all genders, LGBTI people, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

We provide reasonable adjustments; including alternate formats to the recruitment process for individuals with disability. If you require an adjustment to be made during the recruitment process, please email our Adjustments Coordinator at adjustments@hoban.com.au or visit hoban.com.au/adjustments for additional contact details.