Manager Infrastructure Solutions

Unitywater; Maroochydore; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Wellbeing programs

Learning opportunities

Diversity networks

Job summary

Unitywater is seeking an experienced infrastructure leader to become Manager, Infrastructure Solutions, driving the next phase of our Capital Program. You will oversee the five-year plan, align across Unitywater and framework partners, and deliver sustainable infrastructure outcomes for a growing region.

The role requires strategic leadership across prioritisation, planning and delivery, with a focus on performance, risk management and commercial success.

Qualifications

• Senior executive leadership experience managing large infrastructure programs and multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong commercial acumen and strategic thinking.
• Ability to lead strategic partnerships and collaborative delivery arrangements.
• Proven ability to drive program delivery performance and manage complex risks.

Responsibilities

• Lead the performance and delivery of Unitywater's rolling five-year capital program with safety, quality and risk management.
• Drive integration and performance of Unitywater teams and Framework Partners to optimise resources.
• Accelerate maturity of the integrated delivery model with governance and continuous improvement across the program lifecycle.
• Provide strategic leadership across prioritisation, planning, design and delivery to support asset performance and customer outcomes.
• Build organisational capability and lead change to create a high-performing, commercially focused team.

Skills

Senior leadership

Commercial acumen

Strategic thinking

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Engineering degree

RPEQ registration or eligible

Corporate Membership of Engineers Australia (or eligible)

Job description

About the role

We are seeking an experienced and commercially astute infrastructure leader to join Unitywater as Manager, Infrastructure Solutions, leading the next phase of our Capital Program.

Two years into our integrated delivery journey, our focus is on strengthening program performance while continuing to mature our collaborative partnerships, capability and ways of working that underpin our long-term program delivery model.

Reporting to the Executive Manager, Sustainable Infrastructure Solutions, you will lead the Infrastructure Solutions Branch and work collaboratively with our Framework Partners – Abegeldie, Downer, Dormway and Elevate (a joint venture of Aurecon and AECOM) – to develop and deliver Unitywater's $1.8 billion rolling five-year capital program.

This is a significant leadership opportunity to influence both immediate delivery outcomes and the future direction of infrastructure delivery at Unitywater, balancing commercial performance, operational effectiveness and sustainable investment to support our rapidly growing region.

Key accountabilities include

• Lead the performance and delivery of the rolling five-year capital program, strengthening delivery certainty, commercial outcomes and effective management of safety, quality and infrastructure risks.
• Drive the integration and performance of Unitywater teams and Framework Partners, establishing clear accountabilities, strengthening collaboration and optimising resources across multidisciplinary delivery teams.
• Accelerate the maturity of the integrated delivery model, embedding effective governance, streamlined processes, performance measures and continuous improvement across the program lifecycle.
• Provide strategic leadership across infrastructure prioritisation, planning, design and delivery, ensuring investment decisions support long-term asset performance, operational efficiency and customer outcomes.
• Build organisational capability and lead change, fostering a high-performing, commercially focused and collaborative environment that delivers sustainable infrastructure outcomes.

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:

Must have

• Engineering degree with eligibility for Corporate Membership of Engineers Australia and current Registration as a Professional Engineer Queensland (RPEQ), or eligibility for registration.
• Substantial senior executive leadership experience managing large, complex infrastructure programs and multidisciplinary teams across the full infrastructure lifecycle.
• Demonstrated ability to improve program delivery performance, manage complex commercial and operational risks, and drive accountability for outcomes.
• Proven experience leading strategic partnerships, relationship-based contracts and collaborative delivery arrangements involving shared risk and performance obligations.
• Strong commercial acumen, strategic thinking and demonstrated capability to lead organisational change, mature operating models and build high-performing teams.

Nice to have

• Experience within the Australian water industry or similarly complex, regulated infrastructure environments.
• Experience working within integrated delivery teams, alliance arrangements or long-term infrastructure delivery partnerships.
• Demonstrated success in strengthening program governance, delivery assurance and performance management frameworks.
• Experience in strategic asset management, infrastructure investment prioritisation and whole-of-life asset performance.
• Experience driving innovation, sustainability and continuous improvement across infrastructure delivery.

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.

Applications close: COB Tuesday 10 November.

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.