Christopher Seccull Email & Phone Number

Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Darwin

Manage and provide leadership to Power and Water’s development activities across the Northern Territory under the Connection Code and Indigenous Essential Services (IES) Framework enabling efficient achievement of new customer connections (Land Subdivision and Buildings) to its network.

Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Darwin

• Led a multi-disciplinary team of 7 water professionals (engineers and scientists) to meet the planning, operational support and compliance functions for 72 communities across the NT including water source, water quality and treatment, asset management and wastewater disciplines.• Provision of leadership to the development of the $28 million remote water security and water quality program• Managed the $4 million annual remote planning operational budget including oversight of procurement activities for consultancy services, air charter and laboratory testing contracts and research and development.• Led the operational support and emergency response planning to water security and water quality incidents• Maintain effective relationships with external stakeholders including the Department of Territory Families, Housing and Communities (DTFHC) and the Department of Planning, Infrastructure and Logistics (DIPL).• Managed the structural integration of remote planning staff and functions into respective urban teams• Provide high level strategic advice to executive management including Ministerial Briefs, Board Papers, Cabinet Submissions, internal and external communication.

Darwin, Australia

• Led a team of 2 services development engineers to coordinate the gifted asset creation process for new water supply and sewerage infrastructure constructed by external parties including planning, design review and approval, construction auditing and commissioning.• Stakeholder management and negotiation with developers, consultants, contractors and NTG on infrastructure servicing strategies, infrastructure contribution plans and contract management

Darwin Area, Australia

Key Projects: Options Development and Assessment of AROWS (2015-2017) • Project manager for the initial concept design and optimisation of dam, intake and outtake infrastructure of Darwin’s preferred medium term water source option, Adelaide River Offstream Water StorageMedium Term Assessment of Water Source Options for the Darwin Region (2015)• Project lead for the options assessment of Darwin’s medium term water source including assessment of AROWS, Upper Adelaide River Dam, Manton Dam Augmentation, desalination and evaluation of demand management and water loss strategies• Development of Level of Service policy, operating philosophies and hydro-economic modelling for multi water source systems• Developed Power and Water’s internal surface water modelling capability using eWater’s Source platform• Quality and innovation of work recognized through acceptance of paper and presentation at the Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium 2015.

Darwin Area, Australia