About Seqwater

Water is essential for life. At Seqwater, we’re not just delivering water—we’re driving innovation, growth and transformation to secure the future of water across South East Queensland.

As one of the largest water businesses with the most geographically spread and diverse asset base of any capital city in Australia, our operations extend from the New South Wales border to the base of the Toowoomba ranges and north to Gympie.

As we enter an exciting period of expansion, we're embracing new technologies and sustainable practices to meet the growing needs of our region. We work collaboratively across our organisation and with our stakeholders, constantly striving to enhance the quality of service we provide. As we modernise our systems and invest in smarter water grids, we remain focused on delivering the highest standard of service, always with the future in mind.

Our transformation is about more than just infrastructure—it’s about people. Our team of dedicated professionals are united by a shared passion for creating lasting, meaningful outcomes for the communities we serve, and this is reflected in Our Vision, Water for Life, Our Promise - Safe for Life, and Our Values of integrity, respect, care, and courage that shape everything we do.

You’ll be working on some of the most high-profile water infrastructure projects in the industry, helping to secure Water for Life for generations to come.

About Your Opportunity

As a Contract Manager, you'll oversee the day-to-day management of IPCD contracts. You'll work within a team of Contract Managers to coordinate Seqwater's subject matter experts and support functions with their contract counterparts. Your responsibilities include handling all contract-related matters, monitoring contract performance, negotiating changes, reviewing proposals, and assisting with budget and financial controls.

Key responsibilities:

• Represent Seqwater in relation to the assigned contracts, leading and managing the performance of selected contracts while developing and implementing contract management plans in accordance with processes and procedure.
• Ensure administration processes are delivered in accordance with the contracts, approved contract management plans and Seqwater’s records management policy, including ensuring final documents are stored according to the relevant Seqwater policy.
• Manage and negotiate contract variations in accordance with contractual processes and Seqwater policies.
• Monitor and analyse contractor performance and compliance, addressing nonperformance to achieve contract outcomes, while producing and distributing reports and providing necessary advice to key stakeholders. Review and approve correspondence, business cases, performance reports, budget submissions, and contractor requests within your delegation.
• End of Month reporting of the assigned contract(s) according to Seqwater’s business requirements (including inputting and updating project delivery information and status into Seqwater systems)

About you

To be successful in this role, you will possess:

Essentials

• Minimum of 5 years equivalent relevant professional experience managing or administering contracts.
• Relevant Tertiary qualifications relevant to contract management, including Business, Commerce, Legal, Contract Management, Project Management, or the subject matter of the contracts being managed.

Desirables

• Understanding of budget management in the context of contract oversight.
• Experience across a range of delivery models including D&C, design-only, construct-only, collaborative contracting, target cost with gain/pain share mechanisms, PMC, and reimbursable arrangements will be highly regarded
• Substantial knowledge and understanding of:

i. Performance measures and other KPIs used to incentivize desirable behaviors and the delivery targeted outcomes

ii. Contract management and audit practices.

iii. Budget management

• Qualifications (or working towards obtaining qualifications

Appointment to this role is subject to the provision of a national police check and may be subject to other medical/character requirements. Please note that people with criminal records are not automatically deemed ineligible. Each application will be considered on its merits.

For a more detailed preview of the work that you will be involved in for this role, feel free to take a look at the position description on our careers page - careers.seqwater.com.au   We also invite you to connect with us on LinkedIn and join our growing community of followers to see all the latest news and job opportunities as and when they happen - https://www.linkedin.com/company/seqwater/

If you are looking for an extraordinary career in which you can make a real impact, we'd love to hear from you!

To apply

Submit your cover letter outlining how you meet the requirements of the role and your resume via the Apply button.

Applications close: 11:55PM AEST, Monday 16^th June 2025

For further information please email enquiries to recruitment@seqwater.com.au

Please note – applications cannot be accepted via email.