About the role

Unitywater’s Vacation Program is a 12-week placement, offered over the summer holiday period (Nov 2026 – Feb 2027). Work four days per week while building your skills, meeting new people, learning from experienced professionals, and discovering where a career in the water industry could take you.

Opportunity

Network Modelling

- Join our Network Planning team and develop practical network modelling skills while responding to network enquiries, analysing GIS data, and supporting hydraulic investigations that inform planning and operational decisions.
- Open to Mechanical, Civil, Chemical or Environmental Engineering students.
- Location: Maroochydore

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:

- Must be a current tertiary undergraduate student.
- Demonstrate a strong sense of commitment.
- Adaptability, curiosity and able to work as part of a team.
- A willingness to learn and to make a positive contribution to our business.

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 skilled 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.

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.

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Additional information

- Open to Mechanical, Civil, Chemical or Environmental Engineering students.
- 12-week paid summer vacation program, commencing Nov 2026.
- Gain hands‑on experience within our Network Modelling team.

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📌 Vacation Student - Network Modelling (Maroochydore)
🏢 Unitywater
📍 Maroochydore