Responsibilities

- 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.

Qualifications

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 solid 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.

Benefits

- 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.

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📌 Infrastructure Planning Lead (Brisbane)
🏢 Unitywater
📍 Brisbane