Leverage your diverse leadership strengths by empowering others and cultivate trust.
If you’re driven to make a meaningful contribution to WA while collaborating and building relationships across teams, you’ve come to the right place.
- Highly competitive salary package on offer
- High‑impact role leading operational security and incident response for essential services
- Purpose‑driven leadership opportunity, working with a specialist team and key State emergency agencies
About the role
This is a senior leadership role responsible for ensuring Water Corporation is effectively prepared for, responds to, and recovers from corporate incidents and state emergencies. The Manager – Operational Security and Incident Management leads the organisation’s operational security and incident management capability, providing clear direction, guidance and coordination across the business during both business‑as‑usual operations and high‑impact incidents.
The role leads the security and incident management function within the Integrated Operations Business Unit and acts as a key point of coordination during major corporate incidents and emergencies. While enterprise risk and insurance functions sit elsewhere, this role plays a critical operational role by informing security and incident risk treatments through operational data, incident insights and security assessments, ensuring incident management processes, guidelines and procedures are current, effective and consistently applied across the organisation. Enhancing the capability of incident and emergency management state-wide through the agency.
A strong people leader, this role focuses on building capability, maintaining a high‑performing and connected team, and supporting the wider business with practical, hands‑on incident management advice. Success requires someone who can engage confidently with senior leaders, regional operations and external emergency agencies, while remaining calm, credible and decisive in high‑pressure situations.
Who are we?
When you join Water Corporation, you play an important role for the people of WA. Our services are essential for life - everyday, millions of Western Australians rely on us to deliver and manage water across our state.
If you’re driven to make a meaningful contribution, you’ve come to the right place.
Real benefits that matter
- Real flexibility with options to work from home, 9-day fortnight, flexible work hours
- Two well-being days each year to do whatever you need to do to feel good
- Access to long service leave pro rata after 3 years of service
- Take advantage of our co-contribution superannuation scheme. Receive a 12% employer contribution and enjoy an additional 2% employer co-contribution when you elect to salary sacrifice 2%.
- Purchase additional leave of up to 12 weeks or work 4 years at a reduced salary and take the fifth year off as paid leave
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural and ceremonial leave of up to 5 days so you can maintain your cultural connection and wellbeing.
Discover more benefits we offer to support the unique and individual ways our employees live.
What you can expect with this role
- Leading the organisation’s operational security and incident management function, providing clear direction and coordination across the business
- Owning and maintaining incident management frameworks, guidelines, processes and procedures, ensuring they remain current and effective
- Acting as a key coordination point during major corporate incidents and emergencies, supporting the business through preparation, response and recovery
- Leading and developing a specialist team, building capability, engagement and strong performance in both day‑to‑day operations and incident situations
- Coordinating and delivering incident management training and emergency exercises across the organisation
- Working closely with internal leaders and external emergency agencies to support effective incident preparedness and response
Your skills and experience
For this role, we are looking for great talent with:
- Proven experience in operational security and/or incident or emergency management, ideally within a large, complex operational environment
- A strong, people‑focused leader who can build capability, engage teams and support staff to perform effectively, including in high‑pressure situations
- Sound understanding of incident management principles, including preparedness, response and recovery and a proven ability to apply them.
- Confident working with senior leaders and external emergency agencies, with strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills
- Calm, credible and decisive under pressure during dynamic events and when leading through incidents and emergencies
- Holds a relevant tertiary qualification (e.g. security, emergency management, leadership or a related field) or equivalent practical experience; a degree is desirable but not mandatory
Ready to thrive as you shape WA’s water future? Apply today
If you are interested in the above opportunity, please submit a covering letter and resume that best demonstrates your ability to meet the requirements of the role.
Applications close 30th April 2026
As part of the recruitment process you will be required to complete Pre-Employment screening which may include a medical, qualification check, police clearance and Australian working rights check.
We reserve the right to withdraw this ad prior to the closing date.
Our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace:
Diversity and inclusion are more than words. They guide us on building a thriving workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers and our community.
We encourage applications from every background, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, women, youth, LGBTQIA+ folks and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
We are committed to ensuring an accessible and inclusive work environment to enable people with disability to participate fully in all aspects of employment.
Applicants with disability who require adjustments during the recruitment process including an alternative format of the application form, can contact a Recruitment Officer at [email protected] or 08 9420 2000.
To read our diversity and inclusion statement, please visit our website
