Infrastructure Planning Lead

Infrastructure Planning Lead

Unitywater is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Planning Lead with a focus on wastewater treatment plants. This full-time, hybrid role is based in Mango Hill.

About the Role:

This position offers senior technical leadership in the planning, design, and delivery of major wastewater infrastructure. It presents a unique chance to influence strategic investment decisions and shape the future of wastewater services across the region. You will bring strong technical expertise in wastewater treatment planning and engineering, including experience with process optimisation, capacity planning, and infrastructure upgrades.

Working closely with the Growth Engineering team, your responsibilities will include:

• Translating master planning outputs into detailed planning, options assessments, and clear solution requirements to support capital program development.
• Providing senior technical leadership and guidance across the planning and design phases.
• Offering technical assurance for deliverables from external partners, supporting quality, compliance, and alignment with Unitywater standards.
• Leading complex technical discussions.
• Mentoring engineers.
• Collaborating with Integrated Delivery Teams, consultants, regulators, and internal stakeholders to achieve robust, high-quality outcomes.

This role combines deep technical expertise with leadership, influence, and accountability for engineering excellence. This role can be based at either our Mango Hill or Maroochydore offices.

About You:

Unitywater's One Unitywater behaviours – Create the Future, Care Together, and Own It – guide our work. To contribute to these, you will demonstrate the following:

• Experience in the water industry with a proven track record in senior technical, planning, or design leadership roles within water utilities, consultancies, or similarly complex organisations.
• Extensive experience delivering complex water and wastewater infrastructure projects, with strong knowledge of treatment plants and associated assets.
• Demonstrated technical leadership in consultancy and design environments, including the ability to guide, review, and assure engineering designs and manage deliverables from external partners.
• Strong knowledge of water industry standards, materials, and specifications, with the ability to ensure compliance with regulatory, safety, and organisational requirements.
• Proven ability to translate strategic and master planning objectives into practical, customer-focused solutions for capital works projects.
• Experience in needs analysis, options development, and data-driven decision-making to support optimal project outcomes.
• Advanced communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence, negotiate, and collaborate across internal teams, consultants, and regulators.
• Strong organisational capability, with experience managing multiple complex work streams and contributing to continuous improvement of engineering and design processes.
• Tertiary qualifications in engineering (process or mechanical preferred), with RPEQ or progress towards.

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. You will need to confirm your right to work in Australia and complete relevant pre-employment checks.