- Drive resilience across critical services and complex infrastructure
- Partner with executives to influence decisions in high-impact scenarios
- Access flexible and hybrid work arrangements that support work-life balance.
About the role:
This is a genuinely high-impact role where your work will directly influence how a critical service prepares for and responds to disruption. As the Business Resilience Lead, you’ll shape the strategy, capability and confidence that enables Unitywater to continue delivering for the community, especially when it matters most. You’ll join a strong, values-led team and lead meaningful, enterprise-wide initiatives that have visible impact.
Reporting to the Head of Risk and Business Resilience, you’ll sit at the intersection of strategy and execution. You’ll partner closely with senior leaders, bring a clear and commercial lens to resilience, and ensure the organisation is ready to anticipate, respond to and recover from complex challenges.
In this role, you will:
- Lead and evolve Unitywater’s enterprise Business Resilience Program
- Set direction across business continuity, crisis management and organisational preparedness
- Influence executive decision-making through clear, risk-informed insights
- Strengthen governance across resilience, security and critical infrastructure
- Design and deliver practical plans, exercises and capability-building initiatives
- Work closely with leaders to embed resilience into how the business operates
- Represent Unitywater with regulators, government and industry stakeholders
- Drive continuous improvement through testing, assurance and lessons learned
- Translate complexity into clear, actionable strategies that deliver outcomes
- Contribute to a high-performing, collaborative specialist team
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: The requirements for the position are:
Must have
- Strong experience leading resilience, business continuity or crisis programs in complex organisations
- Deep understanding of resilience, risk, incident and crisis management frameworks and standards
- Proven ability to influence senior leaders and navigate complex stakeholder environments
- Highly developed strategic thinking with a practical, delivery-focused approach
- Ability to operate comfortably between strategy and hands-on implementation
- Enterprise mindset with strong systems thinking across interconnected risk areas
- Excellent communication skills, including executive-level engagement and facilitation
- Experience leading exercises, assurance and continuous improvement initiatives
- Strong program and stakeholder management capability across competing priorities
Nice to have
- Experience within critical infrastructure, utilities, government or regulated environments
- Relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent experience in resilience, risk or security
- Exposure to security governance or critical infrastructure resilience
- Experience engaging with regulators, government bodies or industry forums
- Demonstrated people leadership, coaching or capability-building experience
- Familiarity with systems and tools supporting resilience, risk or governance functions
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 Thursday 23rd July 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.