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 Southeast 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 currently in construction in the industry, helping to secure Water for Life for generations to come.

About Your Opportunity

As a Senior Environmental Advisor, you will drive Seqwater’s cultural change by empowering ownership and continuous improvement of environmental management practices and values on site across a portfolio of our large capital projects. As part of a small team, you’ll provide expert scientific and technical (but practical) advice across Seqwater’s built and natural asset base, supporting capital programs. With a focus on compliance, performance, and improvement, you’ll manage complex site-based activities across local, State, and Commonwealth legislation. You’ll enhance environmental governance and deliver high-quality, pragmatic, solution-oriented advice on complex matters, while engaging with regulators to negotiate and influence statutory compliance and approvals to achieve Seqwater’s environmental outcomes.

Key responsibilities:

• Coordinate the delivery of regional compliance activities on some of our large capital works, including complex environmental and ecological monitoring programs, and provide expert advice and interpretation of relevant legislation, policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines, for multifaceted operational, project and third-party activities.
• Deliver high-quality scientific and technical advice, on a broad range of complex environmental matters, and formulate strategic recommendations, across multiple sub disciplines of environmental management.
• Coordinate the delivery of multidisciplinary environmental projects, including complex internal and external environmental and ecological monitoring programs. Monitor resource allocation and control program and budgetary management to ensure compliance deliverables are met.
• Hold contractors to account for successful implementation of environmental management plans and associated programs of work to meet regulator and community expectations
• Lead investigations for environmental incidents and emergencies, including provision of expert advice to resolve complex problems and achieve solution-based outcomes, during and after hours as part of the incident and emergency management team.

About you

To be successful in this role, you will possess:

• Tertiary qualifications in Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering or related field and extensive relevant experience.
• Experience in undertaking site and project based environmental audits on large infrastructure projects.
• Demonstrated understanding of relevant environmental legislation, policies and procedures and experience in providing advice on the application of these requirements in both operational and project activities.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in environmental management of project related activities and risks, including the development of project environmental management plans and addressing project-related environmental issues.
• Ability to lead others (including contractors) and provide guidance, mentoring and development. 

This position has a salary range of $132,746.14 - $145,422.62 (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, Sunday 22 June 2025

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

Please note – applications cannot be accepted via email.