Drive resilience across critical services and complex infrastructure
Partner with executives to influence decisions in high-impact scenarios
Access flexible and hybrid work arrangements that support work-life balance.
Drive resilience across critical services and complex infrastructure
Partner with executives to influence decisions in high-impact scenarios
Access flexible and hybrid work arrangements that support work-life balance.
About the role:
This is a genuinely high-impact role where your work will directly influence how a critical service prepares for and responds to disruption. As the Business Resilience Lead, you'll shape the strategy, capability and confidence that enables Unitywater to continue delivering for the community, especially when it matters most. You'll join a strong, values-led team and lead meaningful, enterprise-wide initiatives that have visible impact.
Reporting to the Head of Risk and Business Resilience, you'll sit at the intersection of strategy and execution. You'll partner closely with senior leaders, bring a clear and commercial lens to resilience, and ensure the organisation is ready to anticipate, respond to and recover from complex challenges.
In this role, you will:
Lead and evolve Unitywater's enterprise Business Resilience Program
Set direction across business continuity, crisis management and organisational preparedness
Influence executive decision-making through clear, risk-informed insights
Strengthen governance across resilience, security and critical infrastructure
Design and deliver practical plans, exercises and capability-building initiatives
Work closely with leaders to embed resilience into how the business operates
Represent Unitywater with regulators, government and industry stakeholders
Drive continuous improvement through testing, assurance and lessons learned
Translate complexity into explicit, actionable strategies that deliver outcomes
Contribute to a high-performing, collaborative specialist team
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: The requirements for the position are:
Must have
Strong experience leading resilience, business continuity or crisis programs in complex organisations
Deep understanding of resilience, risk, incident and crisis management frameworks and standards
Proven ability to influence senior leaders and navigate complex stakeholder environments
Highly developed strategic thinking with a practical, delivery-focused approach
Ability to operate comfortably between strategy and hands-on implementation
Enterprise mindset with strong systems thinking across interconnected risk areas
Excellent communication skills, including executive-level engagement and facilitation
Experience leading exercises, assurance and continuous improvement initiatives
Strong program and stakeholder management capability across competing priorities
Nice to have
Experience within critical infrastructure, utilities, government or regulated environments
Relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent experience in resilience, risk or security
Exposure to security governance or critical infrastructure resilience
Experience engaging with regulators, government bodies or industry forums
Demonstrated people leadership, coaching or capability-building experience
Familiarity with systems and tools supporting resilience, risk or governance functions
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.
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 Thursday 23rd July ****
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📌 Business Resilience Lead (Queensland)
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