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.

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 a Project Officer in Sustaining Capital you will be a key project team member, supporting Project Managers with the successful delivery of our program of works, through investment planning, procurement, pre-construction, delivery and commissioning phases. You will manage project support and project control activities in accordance with Project Management Operating Manual and associated project management and governance procedures and engage with key stakeholders, to ensure the successful delivery of projects.

Appointment to this role is subject to the provision of a national police check. Please note that people with criminal records are not automatically deemed ineligible. Each application will be considered on its merits.

Key responsibilities:

• Provide Project Managers with key documentation and Seqwater process requirements.
• Manage the support and project and program controls functions for assigned programs of work, including:
• Building capability and ensuring compliance with Records Management (HP Content Manager) and Document Control processes
• Cost Control, including reviewing invoices, tracking and reporting expenditure and budget performance through Planisware.
• Manage routine procurement activities.
• Coordinate project team members task assignments and outcomes reporting.
• Maintaining risk registers and coordinating risk reviews
• Coordinating and reporting project change including preparing and/or collating project change requests
• Contract Administration of low risk contracts
• Maintaining project action and decision registers
• Prepare and present timely reports for project performance against cost and schedule and accurately forecast.
• Author and review reports, presentations, documents, and correspondence related to project and program works, including technical documents.
• Coordinate project related meetings/briefings/workshops with both internal and external participants, including preparation of documents, coordination of attendees and recording of minute

About you

To be successful in this role, you will possess:

Essentials

• Minimum 5 years professional experience in a complex project environment
• Experience in managing the successful delivery of projects and work packages.
• Class C Driver's License.

Desirables

• Project Management, Engineering or relevant technical qualifications (Tertiary or Advanced Diploma level)
• Experience within the water industry

This position has a salary starting at $104,668 - $119,531 plus 12.75% superannuation and is an Fixed term contract until the end of December 2026.

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 26th May 2025

For further information please email enquiries to [email protected]

Please note – applications cannot be accepted via email.