- Safety-first environment where your leadership and expertise make a real impact.
- Enjoy great benefits that support your health, wellbeing, and work-life balance.
- Thrive in a culture built on teamwork and development.
About the role:
As a Site Coordinator, you will play a key leadership role in the delivery of civil maintenance and construction projects across Unitywater’s water and wastewater networks. Working within our Private Works team, you will be responsible for coordinating site-based activities, planning and scheduling works, managing resources and contractors, and ensuring projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and to a high standard of quality.
This is a hands-on leadership position where you will provide technical guidance and support to construction crews while overseeing project performance, budgets, procurement, and stakeholder relationships. You will work closely with internal teams, contractors, and customers to ensure projects are completed on time and within budget, while maintaining compliance with safety, environmental, and quality requirements.
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:
Must have:
- Experience in civil pipeline construction and associated water infrastructure.
- Demonstrated leadership experience managing crews in maintenance, construction, and replacement of water and wastewater assets.
- Strong project coordination, planning, and problem-solving skills.
- Sound knowledge of South East Queensland water and wastewater systems.
- Certificate III in Construction and leadership training.
- Current Drainer's Licence.
- General Construction Induction Card (White Card).
- Current C Class Driver's Licence.
Nice to have:
- Dogger and/or Rigger ticket.
- Experience developing shutdown plans and interpreting construction drawings.
- Knowledge of geotechnical and dewatering practices.
- Experience with risk assessments and contractor management.
- Competency in Microsoft Office, Maximo, eMap, and other relevant systems.
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: Wednesday 24th 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.