- Support the delivery of major infrastructure programs across Southeast Qld
- Hands-on role working in Primavera P6 daily
- Flexible and hybrid working arrangements available
About the role:
This is a 12-month contract opportunity for an experienced Program Controller to support the successful delivery of Unitywater’s capital program.
Working closely with project managers and delivery teams, you’ll play a key role in maintaining program schedules, tracking performance, and ensuring accurate, timely reporting. This is a hands-on position, focused on providing strong planning and controls support to help keep projects on track.
Working within a collaborative capital delivery environment, you’ll support program visibility by maintaining accurate schedules and reporting, helping teams track progress and stay aligned.
What you will be doing:
- Maintain and update the Primavera P6 master schedule, ensuring accuracy and alignment across projects
- Support project teams with scheduling, progress updates, and reporting requirements
- Consolidate and analyse program data to support monthly reporting cycles
- Identify variances in cost and schedule, highlighting risks and supporting mitigation tracking
- Work closely with project managers to ensure consistency in planning and reporting approaches
- Assist in integrating schedules across multiple projects within the program
About you:
You’re a detail-oriented Program or Project Controller who enjoys working closely with delivery teams and keeping programs running smoothly.
You bring a practical, hands-on approach and are comfortable working across multiple projects, supporting others and stepping in where needed to maintain momentum.
Aligned to Unitywater’s One Unitywater behaviours – Create the Future, Care Together, Own It – you will demonstrate:
- A proactive and reliable approach to supporting delivery outcomes
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Attention to detail and a focus on data accuracy
What you will need:
- Strong experience using Primavera P6 in a project or program environment, including cost and resource loaded schedules
- Experience supporting project controls across infrastructure or capital projects
- Solid skills in Excel (Power BI desirable)
- Understanding of scheduling, forecasting, and reporting processes
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work across a portfolio of projects
- Degree in engineering, project management, or related discipline
Highly regarded (but not essential):
- Experience within utilities, water, or large-scale infrastructure programs
- Background working on the Partner side (planner or project controller)
- Experience working in alliance, collaborative, or partnership delivery models
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. Tell us what this looks like for you!
- 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, and 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 Tuesday 23 June
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.