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 the Outage Management Officer, you will contribute to the outage management of Seqwater’s operational treated water assets, developing the production of detailed isolation plans, including the production of isolation plans for complex and high risk works to minimise network and customer disruption to ensure a positive customer experience.

Key responsibilities:

• Plan and coordinate permits and isolation activities for maintenance and project works, including prioritisation, scheduling, risk management and communication.
• Develop detailed network isolation plans that minimise operational, customer and network impacts while supporting planned interventions.
• Engage and manage stakeholders to secure timely permit approvals and coordinate complex works, projects and asset commissioning activities.
• Identify and mitigate operational and water quality risks, ensuring isolation plans comply with safe drinking water requirements and include appropriate contingencies.
• Manage customer impacts and outage communications, ensuring notification requirements are met and working with customer service and media teams where required. 

About you

To be successful in this role, you will possess:

• Relevant qualifications and/or significant experience in water grid operations or a related field.
• Experience in network planning and analysis, including developing complex isolation plans within a water utility environment.
• Strong understanding of water supply infrastructure, including construction, operations and maintenance practices.
• Proven ability to assess and mitigate operational risks by analysing and interpreting network scenarios using operational systems.
• Experience working in a 24/7 operational environment, with the ability to support incident management and participate in an on-call roster.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, communication and analytical skills, with the ability to negotiate, influence and work independently.

This position will be offered on a permanent full-time basis with a salary range from $108,332.25 - $119,130.76 (dependant 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 2nd August 2026

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

Please note – applications cannot be accepted via email.