About the role:
As Contact Centre Team Leader (South), you will play a pivotal leadership role within the Customer Service leadership team, inspiring and guiding a team of Customer Service Officers across multiple locations to deliver outstanding, multi-channel customer service. You'll champion a culture of excellence by leading from within through coaching, mentoring, and empowering your team to exceed customer expectations and bring Unitywater's values to life in every interaction.
You'll collaborate and take ownership of service performance and be a key driver of innovation, identifying opportunities to improve processes, elevate our customer experience, and promote the Contact Centre's strategic value across the organisation. We're looking for you to bring your curiosity, embrace change and ask the right questions regarding our processes.
With your strong leadership presence, you'll manage escalations with confidence, foster team engagement, collaborative culture and support the professional growth of your people. This is an exciting opportunity to make a real impact!
This is a full-time permanent position based at our Southern Corporate Centre in Mango Hill. Our Contact Centre operates on weekdays between 8am and 5pm with the potential to assist with after-hours and emergency support, helping to ensure seamless service for our customers at all times.
About you:
Experience leading a multi-channel Contact Centre team in a fast-paced environment
Excellent people leadership skills with a proven ability to coach, mentor, performance manage, motivate and build team capability
Excellent problem-solving, conflict resolution, and decision‐making skills




A customer-first mindset and demonstrated success in delivering service improvements and customer value
Experience within a peer leadership team, collaborating to manage change, lead initiatives, and use insights to inform strategy
Robust written and verbal communication skills and high business acumen
Flexibility to support after-hours service and on‐call responsibilities if required
Working at Unitywater:
We recognise that people are the essence of the water sector, and each team member provides the leadership, vision and skills that drives and delivers actions for our customers and communities.
We are committed to fostering a workplace that is diverse and inclusive, where you feel connected, are safe to be yourself and supported to be the best version of yourself.
As a Unitywater team member you will enjoy a range of benefits:
Flexibility:
We value flexibility and support work‐life balance with flexible working, purchase 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 discounts and benefits from a range of retailers.
Learning and Development:




We understand the importance of learning and offer a range of opportunities to feed your curiosity such as: Walk on Country with Traditional Custodians, study assistance, and access to a dedicated learning program and professional memberships.
Extras:
We understand the importance of connection and support you to care together by offering access to employee network groups focused on First Nations Reconciliation, LGBTIQ+, CALD, Gender, Life stage diversity, and accessibility.
About us:
Unitywater operates in one of Australia's most exceptional environments in terms of natural beauty, geographical and demographic breadth. 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.
Applications close: Thursday 17th September ****
For further information please contact the Talent Acquisition team at
If you would like to speak to a team member about our commitment to diversity and inclusion, please contact our Inclusion Specialist
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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📌 Contact Centre Team Leader (Brisbane)
🏢 Unitywater
📍 Brisbane