- Manage Gippsland Ports to ensure achievement of organisational objectives and legislative requirements
- Organisational development and strategic direction
- Management of organisational risk
- Policy, program and budget development, management and implementation
- Media contact and authorised spokesperson
- Community, government and agency engagement and liaison
- Customer service and relations
Management Profiles
Chris Waites – Chief Executive Officer
Tom Weatherall – Executive Manager Infrastructure and Operations
- Manage Operations staff
- Asset management, boatyards and slipways, wharves and jetties, navigation aids and signs, land buildings and structures, plant, vessels and equipment
- Facility Planning and Development
- Major Projects planning and development
- Planning, coordinating, implementation and monitoring forward years rolling works and maintenence programs
- Grant applications
- Planning referrals
- Interagency relationships
Tony Callaghan – Executive Manager Corporate Services
- Manage corporate services and risk and compliance functions
- Manage budget coordination, preparation and reporting
- Manage financial and asset accounting systems
- Manage statutory audit and annual report production
- Manage titles, leases, agreements and licences
- Manage website design and management
- Management of IT and communications infrastructure
- Provide board administration and sub committee support
- Manage the development of risk management strategies, frameworks and plans
- Management of Environment, Health and Safety (EHS)
David Holding – Executive Manager Marine Operations
- Manage Marine Operations staff
- Manage the hydrographic and monitoring services
- Prepare, implement and manage dredging programs
- Manage operations of owned and chartered dredgers and sand transfer systems
- Manage the Gippsland Lakes Ocean Access (GLOA) program
- Emergency management and Maritime Security planning
- Manage emergency response and oil pollution response arrangements
- Manage Port and related information including hydrographic surveys, Harbour Master’s directions, Local Navigation Notices and Notices to Mariners, permits and Port operating instructions and guidelines