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 Technical Lead – Dams (Geotechnical) in the Infrastructure Planning and Capital Delivery (IPCD) team, you will lead the engineering direction and governance on the geotechnical aspects of significant multi-billion-dollar dam infrastructure projects, across the planning, delivery and handover stages of the project lifecycle, implementing appropriate technical management frameworks, tools, and protocols to improve t consistency and effectiveness. The role will initially focus on the strategically important Somerset Dam Improvement Program (SDIP).
Key responsibilities:
- Provide expert geotechnical engineering and design advice and decisions in regard to planning, construction, maintenance and operations of Seqwater’s dam infrastructure projects, including gated and ungated dams and weirs, ensuring that safety in design principles and regulatory requirements are considered.
- Provide engineering leadership and expertise to the project delivery groups within Seqwater and Seqwater dam engineering personnel to ensure the projects service need, risk and opportunity are appropriately identified and considered by technical and design requirements.
- Lead the Technical Governance and Engineering Assurance activities as they relate to specific geotechnical aspects of Seqwater dam projects, including strategic planning, design, delivery, handover and operations and maintenance, assisting in the review and development of applicable engineering standards.
- Work with the Dam Engineering Service Provider (DESP) for your project to ensure that high level and effective consultancy engineering services into the geotechnical aspects of the dams projects is provided.
About you
To be successful in this role, you will possess:
- Tertiary qualifications in a relevant Engineering discipline.
- Qualification or the ability to obtain registration as a Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland.
- Extensive professional engineering experience including significant experience in geotechnical engineering for dam infrastructure design and construction working on high consequence dam projects, across multiple geographic locations.
- Experience in engaging with and presenting complex technical problems and solutions Senior Leadership Teams and Project Leadership Teams.
- Management knowledge and experience, including in operational planning processes and the coordination, preparation and administration of budgets.
- Substantial industry and regulatory experience in understanding, interpreting and applying relevant Queensland and Australian regulatory guidelines, standards and requirements to asset planning and delivery.
This position has a salary range of $144,587 - $156,835 (dependent on experience) 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, Monday 18th November 2024
For further information please email enquiries to recruitment@seqwater.com.au
Please note – applications cannot be accepted via email.
