The details:

• Maximum Term Full Time | 9 day fortnight - until September 2026
• $112,372 pa + 12% super (level 7)
  Great news - EBA6 currently is underway, with a proposed increase of 5% effective 1 July 2025
• 72.5 hour fortnight
• Hybrid, flexible working environment, including some work from home days.
• Location: Strathpine

Join City of Moreton Bay as a Principal Engineer Floodplain Management, and help shape and enhance our communities for today and tomorrow.

We have an exciting opportunity to take up a Principal level role in the Floodplain Management Team within our broader Drainage Waterways and Coastal Planning department.

Our primary focus of the department is to plan, manage and design the region's coastal, storm water and floodplain management infrastructure, including built and natural form assets, consistent with Council's corporate strategic vision, policies and strategies.

About our opportunity

As our Principal Engineer Floodplain Management you will, provide specialist technical engineering expertise and undertake complex investigations of floodplain management issues to meet the needs of the community within the City of Moreton Bay.

You will have the opportunity to provide specialist technical engineering advice to key stakeholders in relation to the floodplain management including the provision of flood models and the development and maintenance of Council’s flood data products, systems and tools to drive strategic and sustainable outcomes as well as to assist in the development and operation of council’s Flood Warning System.

Examples of the exciting projects you can be involved in include:

Development and delivery of Council’s flood models and flood information products through innovative and based on best practice approaches and applications (refer https://www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/Services/Property-Ownership/Flooding).

Maintenance of council’s innovative City Flood Database (CFD), MoretonAlert, Flood Check System and other flood related systems.

Investigate complex floodplain management problems and prepare and present technical reports and recommendations using combination of ESRI ArcGIS and Microsoft Office.

Position Description - Floodplain Engineer.pdf

About you

We are seeking someone who has knowledge in floodplain management and experience in floodplain management infrastructure planning and design.

• You will have experience in supervising and completing complex technical investigations relating to floodplain management matters and have the ability to apply critical thinking, reasoning, evaluation and decision-making skills.
• You will have excellent communication skills and the ability to build strong professional relationships with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders.
• Your written capability will be well refined with practiced skills to develop and deliver technical reports and proposals in a clear and concise manner.

Our Floodplain Management team is a technically diverse group, who are highly collaborative and passionate about achieving high quality results for our community. We are focused on delivering on our corporate values of Service, Teamwork, Integrity, Respect and Sustainability - we are seeking people who resonate with these values.

Why City of Moreton Bay?

What you do with your life matters. It’s the same with your career.

We’re the third-largest council in Australia and one of the fastest-growing areas. As Australia’s newest city, we’re building something that’s never been done before: a new kind of city, inspired and empowered by a new kind of council.

This is your opportunity to develop skills and experience in a truly unique place, at a truly unique point in time.

At City of Moreton Bay, we’re focused on the vital work we do today. But we’re also focused on the future. On what can be – for our city, our Council and your career.

Here’s what you’ll love about a career with us:

• See it. To build a city of the future, first, you have to see it. The polycentric city we’re building will bring greater prosperity, sustainability and affordability to our city. This is your chance to contribute to something that’s never been done before.
• Shape it. You’ll get hands-on in a rewarding career, serving and strengthening our communities for today and tomorrow. Our work is diverse, interesting and it matters – and it’s yours to shape and own.
• Live it. Contribute to the city you and your family want to live in and enjoy the lifestyle you deserve. And if you don’t live here, you’ll still find pride and connection in so many ways with our successful, resilient team.

You’ll also enjoy a range of other benefits:

• Find a better work-life balance with a nine-day fortnight.
• Find a better work-life balance with a nine-day (72.5-hour) fortnight, plus a hybrid, flexible working environment with some work-from-home days.
• Advance your skills and career through our Study, Training And Research Scheme (STARS).
• Make your pay go further with salary packaging options on novated leases, superannuation payments, smartphones and devices.
• Prioritise your health and wellbeing with discounted health insurance, free annual flu vaccinations and our Fitness Passport Program.
• Get support when you and your family need it most with our 24/7 confidential counselling service, leader support hotline and Mates in Construction program.
• Our Caboolture/Strathpine office has local parking on site and is close to public transport networks, making for an easy commute.

Ready for a career that matters?

Join City of Moreton Bay, and help shape our city of the future.

Click on the 'Apply Now' button below to complete your online application. Please upload a current resume that demonstrates how you meet the requirements for this role. You will also have the option to add a cover letter should you wish.

As part of the recruitment process, applicants will be required to undergo a National Criminal History Check.

As part of the recruitment process, applicants will be required to undergo a medical and hearing assessment with an independent professional nominated by Council, and a National Criminal History Check (all at no cost to you).

To obtain further details please contact our Careers team at [email protected].

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City of Moreton Bay extends across the traditional lands of the Jinibara, Kabi Kabi, and Turrbal peoples, and we acknowledge and pay respects to our Traditional Custodians. We believe diversity of thought, background and experience creates better outcomes for our people and communities, and we strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people of all ages, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.