- Real influence, real infrastructure, real impact at Unitywater
- Own the numbers that shape our capital program
- Access flexible and hybrid work arrangements that support work-life balance.
About the role:
As the Senior Program Controller, you will sit at the centre of how Unitywater plans, governs, and delivers its capital program across Southeast Queensland.
You will operate as a program-level advisor, translating complex cost and schedule data into clear, actionable insights that inform decision-making at senior leadership level.
Working within a collaborative capital delivery model, you will provide end-to-end line of sight across the program, enabling proactive intervention, improving performance, and strengthening confidence in delivery.
You will be accountable for program-level planning and controls that ensure predictable, transparent delivery of infrastructure outcomes within budget, scope and schedule.
What You Will Be Doing
- Partner with project managers and delivery teams to ensure alignment between planning, execution, and reporting.
- Lead program-level performance insight, delivering monthly reporting that goes beyond status to clearly articulate trends, risks, and forward-looking outcomes.
- Provide early warning of major divergences from expected results based on reporting metrics including mitigation strategies.
- Own and continuously enhance the Primavera P6 master schedule, integrating partner schedules and ensuring alignment to program objectives.
- Translate complex data into clear narratives, enabling senior leaders to make informed, timely decisions.
About you:
You bring a systems-thinking mindset and the ability to operate at both detail and program level, connecting data to delivery outcomes.
You are comfortable influencing without authority and can challenge constructively, ensuring the program remains on track.
Aligned to Unitywater’ s One Unitywater behaviours – Create the Future, Care Together, Own It , you demonstrate:
- Ownership of outcomes, not just outputs
- Collaboration across organisational and partner boundaries
- Curiosity and forward-thinking in how programs are delivered
What you will need (must have)
- Advanced Primavera P6 experience, including cost and/or resource-loaded schedules
- Proven ability to analyse and present large datasets using Excel and Power BI
- Significant experience in program or project controls across complex capital environments
- Strong capability in earned value management, forecasting, budgeting, and change control
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, project management, or related discipline
- Current C Class Driver's Licence
What will set you apart
- Experience within utilities, water, or large-scale infrastructure programs
- Background working on the Partner side (planner or project controller)
- Experience in collaborative / alliance / partnership delivery models
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. Tell us what this looks like for you!
- 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, and 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: Midnight Sunday 3rd May 2026
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.