Senior Asset Engineer

There’s No Us Without U. Care with Us, for Today and Tomorrow

There's no life without water, and at Urban Utilities, we live and breathe that knowledge every single day. It's why our people are so passionate about what they do and how they do it. And it's why we need people like YOU. Come shape our future with us and make a real and lasting impact across our teams.

Your Opportunity

We have an opportunity in a newly shaped Senior Asset Engineer/Planner role in our Infrastructure Planning & Delivery group.

This role sits in our Integrated Planning team, who are essential in shaping the vision and objectives of our policies and servicing strategies. The team is responsible for building, adapting, and implementing plans for catchments, water supply zones, and data systems to define performance targets, establish investment pathways, and develop Strategic Business Cases - all driving an affordable, sustainable, and deliverable portfolio to achieve key objectives.

The Senior Asset Engineer/Planner is responsible for contributing to the development and implementation of Asset Class Plans. You will lead project work streams to deliver engineering activities such as asset investigations, renewal scoping, data analysis and investment planning to support effective asset management. ensuring regulatory requirements are achieved through operational resilience, reliability, efficiency, and capability.

You will play a critical role in delivering a multi-billion-dollar capital works program, be contributing to sustainable solutions for Southeast Queensland’s water cycle, while also challenging engineering norms by committing to innovation to transform our water services for our customers.

Some of your accountabilities will include:

• Independently leads the development and maintenance of asset class plans to deliver service performance (and risk), safety, legislative, renewal, reliability, availability, maintainability, and climate change adaptation requirements in support of the catchment or zone-specific integrated plans.

• Leads the development and maintenance of the Asset Strategies and Planning processes and manuals to achieving best-in-class asset management practice for Urban Utilities.

• Drives the development and implementation of best-in-class asset management strategies to deliver operational reliability and optimise total cost of ownership for Urban Utilities’ asset classes

• Proactively integrates across the enterprise to deliver asset integrity outcomes across all asset classes and promotes best-in-class asset strategies such as condition monitoring and reliability centred maintenance.

• Work collaboratively within cross-functional teams to ensure a unified interpretation and implementation of asset management activities across the Urban Utilities asset portfolio. 

About You

We are seeking candidates who are passionate about shaping our future and, ideally, have the following qualifications, skills and experiences:

• Relevant general asset management experience in the water, energy, resources, or industrial sectors

• You have a growth mindset and are highly collaborative. You will lead defined workstreams, influence stakeholders, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver outcomes

• Technical leadership experience working across the asset management lifecycle specific to planning, concept, design, projects and/or operations and maintenance.

• Experience in water and wastewater pump station and pipeline asset management including condition assessment, asset renewals, pipeline relining and slip-lining technologies.

• Working towards or ability to attain Chartered Professional Engineer Status (Australia) and Registration as a Professional Engineer of Queensland (RPEQ) in the future.

At UU, we celebrate diversity. We genuinely believe that bringing together diversity of thoughts, perspectives and expressions is key and crucial to our success as a business. You might find you meet some, but not all, of the job requirements for this role. We’d still encourage you to apply as we we’re looking for the right human being for this role - it’s about so much more than ticking all the boxes!

Why Urban Utilities?

At Urban Utilities, the work we do is about so much more than the bottom line. We're a leading provider of world-class drinking water and wastewater services to the vibrant communities of Brisbane, Ipswich, Lockyer Valley, Somerset, and Scenic Rim. As we continue to grow, we're committed to planning ahead and shaping a sustainable future around water for generations to come.

At the core of our work lies genuine care: for our team, our customers, communities, and the environment. From the flush of a toilet to major infrastructure projects and residential developments, we're dedicated to being there every step of the way.

Our HQ is in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, but you'll find us all over SEQ - working in cool places like the SAS Laboratory in Darra, field-based depots in Eagle Farm, Acacia Ridge, Bundamba, and wastewater treatment plants dotted across the region.

We know the chance to thrive, and progress comes hand in hand with the support to balance work with life. So, you’ll access an increasingly diverse range of benefits and initiatives that’ll help you bring the best you.  Speaking of which, here’s just a sample of the benefits we offer our team:

• Generous Salary Packaging options, including novated leases

• Corporate discounts across Health insurance, technology and more

• 18 weeks of paid parental leave, 15 days personal leave including two proactive wellbeing days, and an additional day of leave each year to connect with friends and family 

• Flexibility at UU depends on the type of work you do but could include options such as, 9-day fortnights and flexible days. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you!

Urban Utilities is an endorsed employer for all women. See our range of benefits and policies directly at WORK180

Visit our website to learn more about us at www.urbanutilities.com.au

How to apply

Click on the "Apply” to complete your application. Applications on Sunday 8th February, however, they will be reviewed as they are received, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Please note: applicants will be required to undergo a Pre-employment medical, which may include Drug and Alcohol testing, as well as other background checks as part of the recruitment process for this role.

For further information please contact our friendly Talent Team at

[email protected]