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 Workplace Specialist, you’ll lead strategic planning, coordination, and enterprise-level delivery of soft services and accommodation projects with the FM service partner. Managing the Workplace Team, you’ll ensure seamless office operations, high customer service standards, operational efficiency, and alignment with workplace strategy and corporate goals. You’ll oversee soft services—cleaning, pest management, security, grounds maintenance, and workplace services—and deliver Seqwater’s Workplace Strategy, including accommodation planning, space optimisation, occupancy modelling, and support for renovations or relocations.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop, refine and deliver the Workplace Strategy to meet accommodation needs of the organisational across corporate, operational and networks sites to improve safety, compliance and efficiency outcomes.
• Lead the strategic oversight and continuous improvement of soft services delivered by the FM service partner, ensuring alignment with organisational goals and service level agreements (SLAs).
• Drive enterprise-wide accommodation strategy and planning to ensure optimal use of space in support of operational needs and organisational growth using analysis of occupancy data, forecasting space requirements, and recommending strategic solutions for space optimisation.
• Collaborate and coordinate with internal stakeholders, FM partners and external vendors to develop and execute seamless office reconfigurations, relocations, and space allocation projects.
• Manage soft services and accommodation-related projects from planning through execution, ensuring timelines, budgets, and quality standards are met, including the development of strategic plans, policies, and procedures related to soft services and space management.
• Prepare business cases, project documentation, and communication materials for stakeholders and leadership.

About you

To be successful in this role, you will possess:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration (Project Management, Property or Workplace Management) or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• A minimum of 7 years of experience in facilities management or related role, with a focus on soft services and space planning across varying asset types including commercial, industrial and residential.
• Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation and communication skills.
• Experience leading strategic workplace initiatives and delivering complex projects in large or multi-site organisations including financial and program modelling, analysis and forecasting, coordination of stakeholder input to drive optimal outcomes for enterprise accommodation.
• Strong experience managing outsourced service providers and cross functional project teams.
• Experience in industry best practice soft services facilities management delivery demonstrating improvement in cost and quality outcomes.

This position has a salary range of $122,730.25 - $133,528.77 plus 12.75% superannuation. 

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, Friday 27 June 2025

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

Please note – applications cannot be accepted via email.