Abbas Merchant
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Team Leader, Treatment Plant Maintenance Delivery · Greater Western Water

Member of the Extended Leadership Team, Manager for the Treatment Plant Maintenance Delivery division.

  • Managed the multi-million-dollar operational delivery budget and accountability for maintenance across 17 water and sewer treatment plants and associated pump stations, supplying 1.5 million customers across Greater Melbourne.

  • Introduced maintenance governance and work management practices drawn from high-reliability industries, establishing forward planning, procedural compliance and work execution, and improving preventive maintenance completion rates by 20% in six months.

  • Redesigned reactive maintenance prioritisation frameworks following data-driven analysis of work classification practices, introducing urgency-based priority tiers and response timeframes that reduced P1/P2 reactive maintenance occurrences by 64%.

  • Designed and implemented new operational norms: weekly standups, OKR reviews, quarterly planning, ISO-aligned maintenance records management frameworks, and KPIs and SLAs.

Jan 2026 – Now

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