Senior Infrastructure Planning Engineer

Unitywater; Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Wellbeing initiatives

Learning & development

Diversity & inclusion

Job summary

Unitywater is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Planning Engineer with wastewater treatment plant experience to join our Growth Engineering team. Lead planning, design and delivery of water and wastewater infrastructure across the region, with a focus on Sewage Treatment Plants.

You will provide technical guidance during planning and design, review design deliverables, and collaborate with internal teams and external partners to ensure regulatory and quality standards are met.

Qualifications

• Must have strong technical background in water engineering and industry standards.
• Experience in water industry consultancy and water infrastructure design.
• Expertise across planning, design, and delivery of water/sewerage infrastructure.
• Ability to translate high-level needs into practical solution requirements.
• Proven collaboration with internal teams, developers and consultants.
• Ability to manage multiple planning tasks and stakeholder reviews.
• Tertiary engineering qualification with RPEQ registration or eligibility.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality technical assessment and advice for Unitywater's capital program and planning.
• Translate high-level needs into clear technical solution requirements.
• Prepare planning documentation meeting regulatory expectations.
• Collaborate with Sustainable Project Development on analysis, cost estimation, and sustainability opportunities.
• Work with internal teams, Integrated Delivery Teams and external consultants.
• Contribute to process improvements and technical assurance across the region.
• Support major projects with safety, quality, and environmental compliance.

Skills

Water engineering

Water industry consultancy

Water and sewerage infra

Requirements translation

Collaboration

Task management

RPEQ eligible

Education

Engineering degree

RPEQ registration or eligible

Job description

About the role

Unitywater is looking for an experienced water engineer with wastewater treatment plant experience to join our Growth Engineering team as a Senior Infrastructure Planning Engineer. This role offers a meaningful opportunity to influence the detailed planning, design, and delivery of water and wastewater infrastructure across the region.

In this role, you will be responsible for managing and delivering timely and effective technical expertise and engineering services to support strategic planning outcomes across the branch, capital program and development services for water and wastewater network with a focus on Sewage Treatment Plants. You will bring consultancy or design experience in water and sewerage infrastructure, providing technical guidance throughout planning and design phases, and reviewing and overseeing design deliverables from internal teams and external partners to ensure projects meet regulatory, technical, and quality standards. You will collaborate with internal teams, Integrated Delivery Teams, and external stakeholders to deliver high-quality planning and design outcomes while contributing to process improvements and technical assurance across the region.

What You’ll Do

• Deliver high quality technical assessment and advice to inform Unitywater’s capital program, development services, infrastructure delivery and strategic planning.
• Translate high level needs into clear, evidence based technical solution requirements.
• Prepare planning documentation that meets regulatory expectations
• Work closely with Sustainable Project Development through needs analysis, options assessment, cost estimation and integration of sustainability and innovation opportunities.
• Work collaboratively with internal engineering teams, Integrated Delivery Teams and external consultants.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of processes, systems and planning approaches.
• Support major projects and ensure high standards of safety, quality and environmental compliance.

What You’ll Bring

• Strong technical background in water engineering with great knowledge of water industry standards.
• Experience in the water industry consultancy sector with proven experience in the design of water infrastructure.
• Strong technical expertise in water and sewerage infrastructure across detailed planning, design and delivery phases.
• Proven ability to translate high-level needs into practical solution requirements.
• Experience collaborating with internal teams, developers, and consultants to deliver projects.
• Ability to manage multiple planning tasks, stakeholder reviews and project inputs.
• Tertiary qualifications in Engineering, with RPEQ registration or eligibility and commitment to obtaining registration.

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.

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