- Lead high-impact wastewater projects while enjoying a flexible work culture
- Drive complex planning & design, collaborating with internal teams and partners
- Deliver meaningful wastewater outcomes for the community
About the role:Unitywater is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Planning Lead – with the focus on wastewater treatment plant to provide senior technical leadership across the planning, design, and delivery of major wastewater infrastructure. This is a unique opportunity to influence strategic investment decisions and shape the future of wastewater services across the region.
You will bring strong technical expertise in wastewater treatment planning and engineering, with experience across process optimisation, capacity planning, and infrastructure upgrades. Working closely with the Growth Engineering team, you will translate master planning outputs into detailed planning, options assessments, and clear solution requirements to support capital program development.
As a senior technical leader, you will provide guidance and assurance across the planning and design phases. You will also provide technical assurance for deliverables from external partners, helping to support quality, compliance, and alignment with Unitywater standards as needed. You will lead complex technical discussions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Integrated Delivery Teams, consultants, regulators, and internal stakeholders to deliver robust, high-quality outcomes.
This role combines deep technical expertise with leadership, influence, and accountability for engineering excellence.
This role can be based at either our Mango Hill or Maroochydore offices.
About you:
Our One Unitywater behaviours - Create the Future, Care Together, and Own It – define how we work together at Unitywater. To contribute to this, you will demonstrate the following skills and qualities for the role:
- Experience in the water industry with a proven track record in senior technical, planning, or design leadership roles within water utilities, consultancies, or similarly complex organisations.
- Extensive experience delivering complex water and wastewater infrastructure projects, with strong knowledge of treatment plants and associated assets.
- Demonstrated technical leadership in consultancy and design environments, including the ability to guide, review, and assure engineering designs and manage deliverables from external partners.
- Strong knowledge of water industry standards, materials, and specifications, with the ability to ensure compliance with regulatory, safety, and organisational requirements.
- Proven ability to translate strategic and master planning objectives into practical, customer-focused solutions for capital works projects.
- Experience in needs analysis, options development, and data-driven decision-making to support optimal project outcomes.
- Advanced communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence, negotiate, and collaborate across internal teams, consultants, and regulators.
- Strong organisational capability, with experience managing multiple complex work streams and contributing to continuous improvement of engineering and design processes.
- Tertiary qualifications in engineering (process or mechanical preferred), with RPEQ or progress towards.
Working at Unitywater:
- Flexibility: We value flexibility and support work-life balance with hybrid and flexible working, purchased annual leave and access to floating public holidays.
- Wellbeing: We offer several initiatives to support your wellbeing, such as discounted private health insurance, salary packaging, employee assistance program, and access to retailer discounts and benefits.
- Learning and Development: We offer a range of opportunities to feed your curiosity such as: Walk on Country experience, study assistance, access to a dedicated learning program and professional memberships.
- Diversity: We celebrate, value and include people of all backgrounds, gender and expressions, sexualities, cultures, bodies and abilities. We invite you to join our dedicated employee networks focused on First Nations Reconciliation, LGBTQIA+, CALD, Gender, Life Stage, Disability and Accessibility.
About us:
Unitywater operates in one of Australia’s most exceptional environments in terms of natural beauty, geographical and demographic breadth. We operate on Kabi Kabi, Jinibara and Turrbal Country, proudly providing safe and reliable water to customers in Moreton Bay, Sunshine Coast and Noosa. We are a water utility serving one of the fastest growing regions in the country.
We think a pretty good job starts here.
How to apply:
Apply online following the links, and make sure to upload your up-to-date CV.
We strive to have a workforce that reflects the diversity of the community we serve and encourage all suitable applicants to apply for this role. Please feel free to share your pronouns and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.
If you’re successful we will need you to undergo a few checks…. We know they might not be the fun part, but you will need to confirm your right to work in Australia and complete relevant pre-employment checks, including verification of criminal history, drivers licence and driving history, alcohol and other drug screening.
Applications close: 22nd July 2026
For further information please contact the Talent Acquisition team at [email protected] or Sol Asadollahi at [email protected]
If you would like to speak to a team member about our commitment to diversity and inclusion, please contact our Inclusion Specialist [email protected]
Unitywater respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waterways in which we live, work and operate, the Kabi Kabi, Jinibara and Turrbal peoples. We honour their enduring connection to these places and their deep cultural, spiritual and environmental knowledge and stewardship over the waterways that sustain us all. We pay our deepest respects to Elders past and present, who hold the wisdom, traditions and stories of their people.
