Team Lead – Bureau of Meteorology
📌 Vacancy Fact Sheet
- Reference Number: VN-0770884
- Agency: Bureau of Meteorology
- Job Title: Team Lead
- Position Number: 60016129
- Classification: Executive Level 2
- Closing Date: Sunday 26 July 2026
- Job Type: Full-Time;Part-Time, Ongoing
- Location: Brisbane QLD, Melbourne VIC
- Future Merit Locations: Various locations – ACT, Various locations – NSW,
- Salary: $140,675 – $157,243
- Office Arrangement: Flexible (Flexible working arrangements, including work from)
About Bureau of Meteorology
The Bureau of Meteorology is one of the few organisations that touches the lives of all Australians and all Australia, every day. The
Bureau works across Australia and remote islands, providing services from the Antarctic to beyond the equator, and from the Indian
Ocean to the Pacific. We are Australia’s national weather, climate and water agency, in the Agriculture, Water and Environment
portfolio of the Australian Government, operating under the authority of the Meteorology Act 1955 and the Water Act 2007. We
provide data, information, knowledge, insight and wisdom to help Australians prepare and respond to the realities of their natural
environment, including droughts, floods, fires, storms, tsunami and tropical cyclones. Our products and services include
observations, forecasts, analysis and advice covering Australia’s atmosphere, water, oceans and space environments. We
undertake focused scientific research in support of our operations and services. Through regular forecasts, warnings, monitoring
and advice, we provide one of Australia’s most fundamental and widely used public services. We have strong relationships with our
customers, partners and stakeholders in Australia, including the Australian Community and the emergency services sectors,
all-levels of Government, and focus sectors including aviation, agriculture, energy and resources, national security and water.
Duties
- The responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:
- Build, lead and manage a high performing, geographically dispersed thunderstorm and
- heavy rainfall team, and commit to collaboration and national ways of working.
- Oversee the delivery of high-quality thunderstorm, severe weather and heavy rainfall
- forecasts and warnings to Bureau customers.
- Oversee the analysis and performance reporting of services whilst driving continuous
- improvement to products, services, process lifecycle management, and governance in the
- Bureau. This role includes the management and lifecycle ownership of all products and
- processes for thunderstorm and severe weather forecast and warning services, and
- implementation of lessons learnt from post event reviews.
- Ability to manage operations within high pressure, complex and dynamic operating
- environments. During significant weather events you will be committed to supporting the
- Bureau and our customers outside of standard working hours.
- As a leadership position this role will provide a strategic focus for the thunderstorm and
- heavy rainfall team, creating a shared sense of purpose by demonstrating how elements fit
- together and contribute to the higher-level goals as defined by Group Plans and the Bureau
- Strategy. You will maintain consistent collaboration with your peers whilst cooperating and
- innovating across EPS, NPS, DSS, Business Solutions Group (BSG) and the wider Bureau
- to contribute to realising the Bureau’s strategic goals.
- In enhancing the Bureau’s Environmental Prediction capability, you will be responsible for
- the development and specification of the learning and competency requirements for
- thunderstorm and severe weather services. You will work closely with the Bureau of
- Meteorology Training Centre (BMTC) and the National Operation and Coordination Team
- (NOCT), and you will prioritise staff development and learning culture to ensure a high
- performing team.
- Working in collaboration with customer facing teams, you and your team will provide
- specialist advice to our customers or Bureau staff as it relates to thunderstorm and severe
- weather products and services.
- Demonstrate commitment to APS Values and Code of Conduct and the Bureau’s
- commitment to diversity and inclusion.
- Comply with all Bureau work, health and safety policies and procedures, and take
- reasonable care for your own health and safety and that of employees, contractors and
- visitors who may be affected by your conduct.
Eligibility / Notes
- Qualifications:
- A degree or diploma of an Australian educational institution, or a comparable overseas
- qualification, which is appropriate to the duties; OR other comparable qualifications, which are
- appropriate to the duties.
- Previous experience with operational severe weather meteorology including service management,
- development, integration and review.
How to Apply
Position Contact Evan Morgan, 03 9669 4048
Agency Recruitment Site https://bomcareers.nga.net.au/
Applicants to vacancies notified in all formats of the electronic Public Service Gazette should be aware:
that the names of successful applicants will also be notified in all formats of the electronic Public Service Gazette
applicants found suitable may be offered similar employment opportunities by other Australian Public Service agencies
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