Civil Infrastructure Services Manager

Unitywater; Sunshine Coast Regional; Hybrid; AUD 160,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid/flexible working

Wellbeing programs

Walk on Country experience

Study assistance

Professional memberships

Diversity networks

Job summary

Unitywater invites a seasoned Civil Infrastructure Services Manager to lead private works delivery across the Sunshine Coast, Moreton Bay and Noosa regions, guiding a mix of employees and contractors to deliver water and wastewater infrastructure.

You will ensure projects are delivered safely, on time and with high quality while maintaining strong commercial outcomes, and partner with developers and consultants to boost performance and continuous improvement in a fast-growing area.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in civil infrastructure projects.
• Strong understanding of safety, quality, and delivery within water utilities.
• Experience delivering projects from quoting through to completion with external clients.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of Unitywater's Private Works projects across Sunshine Coast, Moreton Bay and Noosa regions.
• Oversee a team of employees and contractors to ensure safe, on-time, high-quality outcomes.
• Drive continuous improvement and optimise operational performance with a safety-focused culture.

Skills

Operational leadership

People leadership

Civil construction experience

Water/wastewater infrastructure

Contract lifecycle understanding

Commercial acumen

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/Management/Engineering or related field

Job description

• Lead a team delivering infrastructure that matters.
• Use your operational experience enhance delivery across a high performing team.
• Access flexible and hybrid work arrangements that support work-life balance.

• Lead a team delivering infrastructure that matters.
• Use your operational experience enhance delivery across a high performing team.
• Access flexible and hybrid work arrangements that support work-life balance.

About the role:

As Unitywater's Civil Infrastructure Services Manager you will lead the delivery of Unitywater's Private Works business across the rapidly expanding Sunshine Coast, Moreton Bay and Noosa regions.

In this pivotal leadership role, you will oversee a team of employees and contractors responsible for delivering water and wastewater infrastructure projects for external clients. This starts right from quoting through to closing out of the job. You will ensure projects are delivered safely, efficiently, on time, and to the highest quality standards while maintaining strong commercial outcomes.

Working closely with developers, consultants, and industry partners, you will identify and implement ways to enhance performance and delivery. You will also lead continuous improvement initiatives, optimise operational performance, and foster a high-performing, safety-focused culture that positions Unitywater as a trusted partner in civil infrastructure delivery.

This is an exciting opportunity to combine business and people leadership with operational delivery excellence, making a tangible contribution to the development of one of Australia's fastest-growing regions.

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 are a operational focused and people-oriented leader who is passionate about building strong teams, delivering exceptional client outcomes, and driving the team in the right direction. With experience in civil construction, infrastructure, utilities, water, or wastewater environments, you balance strategic thinking with hands-on leadership and bring a proven ability to deliver results.

You will bring:

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in Business, Management, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience within the water, wastewater, utilities, civil construction, or infrastructure sectors.
• Strong operational and people leadership capability within a civil construction environment.
• Proven experience leading teams to deliver successful business outcomes.
• Extensive experience managing civil works teams, with a track record of achieving performance targets.
• Commercial acumen, with experience across the full contract lifecycle from opportunity identification and tendering through to project delivery.
• Demonstrated success in leading construction teams and delivering complex infrastructure projects.
• Current C Class Driver's Licence.

This role will suit a collaborative and forward-thinking leader who leading teams through growth and delivering infrastructure solutions that make a lasting difference to our communities.

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.

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.

Applications close: Friday 27th November 2026.

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.