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.
If you want to be part of an organisation that's shaping the future of water management, now is the time to join Seqwater.
Join us as we embark on a multi-year program to improve operational reliability and build operational excellence in the services we deliver.
About Your Opportunity Reporting to our Manager Technical Support and Improvement, you will manage and continuously improve Seqwater's laboratory, water monitoring and hydrometric services to inform compliance, optimisation, and planning decisions related to catchment water quality, treated water quality, environment dam safety and flood operations.
Leading a team of specialist staff you will maintain and manage an extensive network of process and operational laboratories as well as water quality and flow monitoring system and programs operating under an ISO9001 Quality Management System.
You will lead the team in the provision of measured, sampled and analysed information through our various systems, which supports Seqwater in meeting its legislative duties in relation to Dam Safety, Environment and Water Quality Management.
You also provide high end technical advice to the business on innovation in laboratory management, water monitoring and hydrometric techniques and technologies, with a strong focus on trialling and adopting technological advancements to make laboratory and field based operations more efficient, effective and safe.
Key responsibilities: Lead with a customer centric approach to enable the team to be adaptive and responsive to internal customers requirements to deliver an improved field based response, adaptive to changing risk drivers, events and regulation.
Lead Laboratory Services to maintain operational laboratories and train operational staff at 32 Water Treatment Plants in water quality analysis.
Lead Laboratory Services provision for operational investigations and troubleshooting to ensure we have timely and accurate information for the real time risk assessment and decision-making process support in the delivery of safe drinking water services.
Lead the delivery of water quality monitoring programs through continuous optimisation of sampling service provision, using both internal and external resources, with a keen focus on new and emerging sampling technology and techniques that can be operationally integrated for business efficiency gains.
Lead the maintenance and optimisation of in-situ on-site, and remote water quality, flow, and dam safety monitoring services to support compliance, operational optimisation and planning decision making core to Seqwater Dam Safety obligations.
Lead continuous improvement in safety and quality systems for laboratories, water quality, flow and dam safety monitoring services in alignment with Seqwater's certified ISO management systems, to ensure service standard align with business needs and are cognisant of best practice and further legislative and regulatory changes.
About you To be successful in this role, you will possess: Tertiary qualifications in Science or Engineering with at least 10 years' experience in utility, quality management or field and maritime operations.
Unrestricted Driver's License for a motor vehicle – "Class C".
Demonstrated knowledge and experience in controlling and improving work safety culture, practices and outcomes, preferably with experience in working on or near water.
High level of technical knowledge in laboratory management, remote monitoring, water quality, and hydrometric services.
Substantial knowledge and understanding of: Relevant drinking and environmental water quality guidelines Water supply, water resources, dam safety regulations and guidelines The operation of water supply and treatment infrastructure The operation and maintenance of remote monitoring equipment and remote data management systems Quality assurance systems Management of laboratories and sampling programs.
Extensive experience in the provision of scientific or engineering services relating to water supply and quality.
Demonstrated experience in the delivery of projects and the procurement of technical services.
Demonstrated experience in water quality and hydrological data interpretation and management systems.
Demonstrated experience in leadership and professional development of teams, and the management of consultants and contractors.
Alignment with Seqwater values.
This position will be offered as an individual TFR package with an attractive salary and is a permanent full time role.
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 10th November 2024 For further information please email enquiries to ****** Please note – applications cannot be accepted via email .