About the role

A & B Civil Contracting is looking for a trade-qualified Civil Plumber / Drainer to join our crew on the Lloyd Street Sewer Replacement Project for Mareeba Shire Council (Contract T-MSC2025-09).

This is hands-on civil plumbing — not domestic maintenance. You will be installing new sewer gravity mains, maintenance holes, rising mains and associated pump-station works in a live urban network. The existing sewer was damaged after Tropical Cyclone Jasper and later flood events. The job is to put a permanent, compliant system in the ground.

Work is based in Mareeba. Local Tablelands and Cairns-based trades are strongly encouraged to apply. Full-time site role with overtime as the program requires.

What you will be doing

- Install gravity sewer pipework to line, level and grade from construction drawings and set-out

- Build and connect maintenance holes, including benching, drops, covers and connections

- Install sewer rising main pipework and associated fittings

- Assist with civil works around FRP and reinforced-concrete sewage pump stations

- Joint, bed, haunch and backfill pipe to specification

- Carry out and record pressure, air and deflection testing as directed

- Work around live sewer, existing services and traffic in a town-street workplace

- Read civil drawings, set-out tables and ITPs; complete daily dockets and as-built mark-ups

- Follow the site WHS plan, SWMS, confined-space and trench-safety controls

What you must have

- Current QBCC Occupational Licence — Plumber and Drainer (Queensland). Provisional licences considered if you can work under a licensed plumber on this site





- Construction White Card

- Current Queensland driver licence and reliable transport to Mareeba

- Proven civil plumbing / drainage experience — sewer or stormwater mains, not bathroom and tap work only

- Comfortable working in trenches and around plant

- Unrestricted right to work in Australia

Highly regarded

- Enter and Work in Confined Spaces

- Working at Heights, First Aid, traffic control

- HR licence, excavator ticket, or top-man / pipelayer experience

- Council or water-authority sewer upgrades, pump stations or rising mains

- Poly welding and PVC / DICL / RC / PE experience

- Local Mareeba / Tablelands / Cairns knowledge

What we offer

- Competitive hourly rate + super + overtime (rate set on tickets and experience)

- Named Mareeba Shire Council infrastructure project

- Small contractor — you deal directly with the people running the job

- PPE provided

- Ongoing civil work beyond this project for the right person

How to apply

Apply through Seek with your resume and a short note covering your QBCC licence class and number, years of civil (not domestic) plumbing experience, confined space / white card / licence status, and when you can start in Mareeba.

Applications that do not confirm a plumbing/drainage licence will not be considered.

Turn on Seek’s screening questions for right to work, QBCC licence, years of civil experience, driver licence, white card, confined space, and ability to work full time in Mareeba.

If you want a version with a locked dollar rate, FIFO/DIDO wording, or a labourer/pipelayer ad as well, say the figure and I’ll rewrite it.

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