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.
About Your Opportunity
In this newly created role of Rostering Specialist, you will deliver and maintain a centralised rostering function to ensure timely and appropriate workforce coverage. Working closely with leaders, you will ensure rosters comply with industrial instruments, policies and procedures, monitoring absences and supply and demand. You will proactively engage with leaders to identify operational efficiencies and to respond to changing business needs.
Key responsibilities:
- Coach and support leaders in the review and optimisation of roster patterns and resourcing requirements, to develop effective and efficient rosters.
- Develop, publish and maintain rosters and schedules aligned with operational needs, coordinating shift changes, leave requests and unplanned absences, whilst ensuring compliance with industrial instruments.
- Monitor compliance, identifying, mitigating or escalating staffing shortfalls, risks and gaps in required skills or competencies.
- Produce timely, accurate reporting and analytics on roster coverage, overtime, workforce utilisation, supply and demand forecasting, costings, trends and capability gaps to support informed decision‑making.
- Collaborate with leaders and the People & Culture Transformation and Strategic Workforce Planning team on workforce planning initiatives, projects and continuous improvement opportunities.
- Support event‑driven resourcing demands (e.g., weather events), while meeting Seqwater’s WHS, quality, environmental and conduct requirements.
About you
To be successful in this role, you will possess:
- Demonstrated experience in workforce rostering, scheduling or similar operational workforce coordination.
- Strong ability to interpret and apply enterprise agreements, industrial instruments and workplace policies in day‑to‑day decision‑making.
- Proven capability to engage, consult, influence and advise a wide range of internal stakeholders.
- High attention to detail, strong organisational skills and sound problem‑solving ability.
- Effective time‑management with the ability to assess situations, make informed decisions and deliver timely outcomes.
- Strong communication skills and proficiency in rostering or workforce management software, ideally gained within a large or complex organisation.
This is a great opportunity to co-design and help shape the role, and Seqwater’s capability uplift in rostering and operational workforce management. Seqwater supports hybrid working.
This role is offered as a permanent full-time position with a salary ranging from $108,332.25 - $119,130.76 plus 12.75% superannuation (dependent on experience).
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 8th February 2026
For further information please email enquiries to recruitment@seqwater.com.au
Please note – applications cannot be accepted via email.
