- Be part of a safety-first culture where your leadership shapes outcomes everyday
- Deliver infrastructure projects that support the communities where you live.
- Shape your future with career development opportunities.

About the role: Step into a hands-on leadership role where you will lead a skilled pipe crew delivering essential water and wastewater infrastructure across the Moreton Bay region. As a Pipe Layer / Crew Leader, you will take ownership of daily site operations, coordinating crews and resources to ensure projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and to the highest standard.

Working alongside your team, you will oversee every stage of construction - from site set-out, deep excavations, and calculating grades and levels through to installing water and wastewater infrastructure and pits, completing live connections to the existing network, and restoring sites. You'll also coordinate the installation of shoring systems for deep excavations while mentoring crew members, promoting a strong safety culture, and driving high performance on site.

This is a role for someone who thrives in the field, enjoys solving problems, and leads by example. If you take pride in delivering critical infrastructure that supports growing communities and enjoy the variety that comes with every project, you'll feel right at home in this 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:

You will bring

- Proven experience in water, wastewater or civil construction.
- Experience installing water and wastewater infrastructure.
- Experience completing live connections to existing water and wastewater networks (desirable, not essential).
- Experience installing water and wastewater pits.




- Experience calculating grades and levels.
- Experience working in deep excavations and installing shoring systems.
- Proven leadership and crew supervision experience.
- Ability to read and interpret construction plans and drawings.
- Robust understanding of WHS, environmental and compliance requirements.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- Effective communication and teamwork skills.
- Experience using field technology, asset management systems or GIS (desirable).
- Construction White Card.
- Current MR (desirable) and C Class Driver's Licences.

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 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.

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.

📌 Pipe Layer / Crew Leader (Moreton Bay region)
🏢 Unitywater
📍 Moreton Bay Region