- 6-month opportunity in a key scheduling role supporting essential maintenance wo
- Coordinate and optimise work activities that keep services running reliably
- Join a collaborative team where your planning skills make an immediate impact
About the role
This is an exciting opportunity to join Unitywater's Customer Delivery team as a Works Scheduler, where you'll play a critical role in connecting planning with delivery. You'll be responsible for developing and coordinating maintenance schedules that maximise resources, improve efficiency, and support the reliable delivery of essential services to our communities. Working closely with operational teams and using Maximo to manage work activities, you'll help ensure the right work is completed at the right time, while contributing to continuous improvement across the business.
This role is based in either Morayfield or Maroochydore to start as soon as possible until mid December 2026 with potential for extension.
About The Team
You'll be joining a high-performing team of experienced planners and schedulers who are passionate about delivering results and supporting one another along the way. Working in a fast-paced environment, the team thrives on collaboration, problem-solving, and building strong relationships across the business. With a culture of teamwork, open communication, and continuous improvement, you'll have the opportunity to learn from experienced professionals while making a real impact from day one.
About you:
Our One Unitywater behaviours - Create the Future, Care Together, and Own It – define how we work together at Unitywater. To contribute to this, you will demonstrate the following skills and qualities for the role:
- Trade qualification or strong relevant experience in maintenance scheduling, planning, or a similar field
- Experience scheduling maintenance delivery across diverse assets and multi-disciplinary teams
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
- Proven ability to problem-solve, prioritise, and adapt to changing operational needs
- Experience using CMMS systems (e.g. Maximo, SAP PM, Ellipse) and other business systems
- Ability to deliver outcomes to deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Understanding of regulated operational environments (ideally utilities)
- Strong Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
- Commitment to continuous improvement and safe work practices
- Current C Class Driver’s Licence
Working at Unitywater:
- Flexibility: We value flexibility and support work-life balance with hybrid and flexible working, purchased annual leave and access to floating public holidays.
- Wellbeing: We offer several initiatives to support your wellbeing, such as discounted private health insurance, salary packaging, employee assistance program, and access to retailer discounts and benefits.
- Learning and Development: We offer a range of opportunities to feed your curiosity such as: Walk on Country experience, study assistance, access to a dedicated learning program and professional memberships.
- Diversity: We celebrate, value and include people of all backgrounds, gender and expressions, sexualities, cultures, bodies and abilities. We invite you to join our dedicated employee networks focused on First Nations Reconciliation, LGBTQIA+, CALD, Gender, Life Stage, Disability and Accessibility.
About us:
Unitywater operates in one of Australia’s most exceptional environments in terms of natural beauty, geographical and demographic breadth. We operate on Kabi Kabi, Jinibara and Turrbal Country, proudly providing safe and reliable water to customers in Moreton Bay, Sunshine Coast and Noosa. We are a water utility serving one of the fastest growing regions in the country.
We think a pretty good job starts here.
How to apply:
Apply online following the links, and make sure to upload your up-to-date CV.
We strive to have a workforce that reflects the diversity of the community we serve and encourage all suitable applicants to apply for this role. Please feel free to share your pronouns and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.
If you’re successful we will need you to undergo a few checks…. We know they might not be the fun part, but you will need to confirm your right to work in Australia and complete relevant pre-employment checks, including verification of criminal history, drivers licence and driving history, alcohol and other drug screening.
Applications close: COB 18th June 2026.
For further information please contact the Talent Acquisition team at careers@unitywater.com
If you would like to speak to a team member about our commitment to diversity and inclusion, please contact our Inclusion Specialist emma.guest@unitywater.com
Unitywater respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waterways in which we live, work and operate, the Kabi Kabi, Jinibara and Turrbal peoples. We honour their enduring connection to these places and their deep cultural, spiritual and environmental knowledge and stewardship over the waterways that sustain us all. We pay our deepest respects to Elders past and present, who hold the wisdom, traditions and stories of their people.
