- Be part of a flexible, inclusive and supportive team environment
- Influence future water and wastewater infrastructure in the region
- Review developer delivered asset designs and provide technical reviews
About the role:
Unitywater is looking for an experienced water engineer (Mechanical or Civil) to join our Growth Engineering Team as a Senior Infrastructure Planning Engineer. This role offers a meaningful opportunity to influence the detailed planning, design, and delivery of water and wastewater infrastructure across the region.
In this role, you will work closely with the strategic planning team to translate master planning outputs into detailed planning, options assessments, technical reviews, and solution requirements that support capital program development, major projects, and development services.
A key focus on the role will be providing technical review and assurance of engineering designs and deliverables, including developer design reviews. You’ll apply your water and wastewater engineering expertise to assess designs against Unitywater standards, specifications and relevant regulatory requirements, identify issues and provide practical technical guidance throughout the planning and design process. You will collaborate with internal engineering teams, Integrated Delivery Teams, developers and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality planning and design outcomes while contributing to process improvements and technical assurance across the region.
What You’ll Do
- Provide technical guidance and advice across water and wastewater infrastructure planning, design and delivery.
- Deliver high quality technical assessment and advice to inform Unitywater’s capital program, development services, infrastructure delivery and strategic planning.
- Translate high level needs into clear, evidence based technical solution requirements.
- Prepare planning and technical documentation that meets regulatory and quality requirements.
- Work closely with the Sustainable Project Development team through needs analysis, options assessment, cost estimation and integration of sustainability and innovation opportunities.
- Work collaboratively with internal engineering teams, Integrated Delivery Teams and external consultants.
- Support major projects and contribute to continuous improvement of technical processes, systems and planning approaches.
- Promote high standards of safety, quality and environmental compliance.
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:
- Strong technical background in water engineering with great knowledge of relevant water industry standards, codes and regulations.
- Strong technical expertise in water and wastewater engineering, with knowledge of relevant water industry standards, codes and regulations.
- Experience in the design and technical review of water and wastewater infrastructure, including developer design reviews.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure planning, design and delivery phases.
- The ability to assess technical designs, identify issues and translate high-level needs into clearly defined, practical solution requirements and recommendations.
- Experience collaborating with internal teams, developers, and consultants to deliver projects
- Ability to manage multiple planning tasks, stakeholder reviews and project inputs
- Tertiary qualifications in mechanical or civil engineering (preferably)
- RPEQ qualification or be working 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: COB Wednesday 2 September.
For further information please contact the Talent Acquisition team 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.