Jobs at Sydney Water

Designs, configures, tests, commissions, and deploys SCADA, RTU, PLC, HMI, and telemetry solutions for critical water infrastructure. The role supports system integration, cutover activities, operational data analysis, asset performance improvement, and continuous enhancement of Sydney Water’s operational technology platform. It also requires collaboration across multidisciplinary teams and translating operational requirements into technical solutions.

Coordinates employee recognition and benefits programs, including long-service awards, recognition events, communications, vendor engagement, reporting, and program administration. The role supports employee experience initiatives, responds to program enquiries, manages logistics, collaborates with People & Culture and communications teams, and identifies process improvements. Strong organization, communication, attention to detail, stakeholder management, event coordination, and Microsoft Office skills are important.

Lead client-side scheduling across complex water infrastructure projects, maintaining reliable schedules, forecasts, baselines and governance. Manage monthly updates and contractor interfaces, analyze critical paths, risks, float and milestone variance, and recommend recovery actions. Lead and coach a team of schedulers while collaborating with project controls, cost, risk and commercial teams. Support EVM, change control, data quality and senior stakeholder reporting.

Lead procurement initiatives for Sydney Water’s SCADA and IICATS operational technology environments. Develop sourcing strategies, manage category opportunities, oversee procurement governance through contract award, and maintain supplier panels and relationships. Provide procurement and commercial expertise, manage contract performance, track benefits and KPIs, and support reliable 24/7 maintenance services. The role also involves stakeholder engagement, executive reporting, team leadership, risk management, and continuous improvement.

Lead the administration, conservation, curation, sentencing, digitisation, and statutory management of Sydney Water and WaterNSW’s historical archive collection. Develop collection procedures, assess and transfer records, apply metadata and retention authorities, oversee external contractors, respond to archive enquiries, and support heritage, education, marketing, and communications initiatives. The role requires autonomous work, strong organisation, stakeholder communication, and safe handling of archive materials.

Designs, develops, tests, deploys, and maintains secure, scalable GIS software applications across digital platforms. Translates business requirements into technical solutions, collaborates with stakeholders, supports releases, identifies delivery and quality risks, documents systems, and contributes to integration and architecture. The role requires hands-on GEV SmallWorld and GSS coding, full-stack development experience, modern web technologies, CI/CD with Kubernetes and Jenkins, and Scrum experience.

Lead a team delivering integrated long-term water, wastewater, and recycled-water infrastructure plans. Manage complex programs exceeding $100 million, budgets, timelines, investment plans, and business cases. Apply scenario planning and risk-based decision-making to balance customer outcomes, service levels, cost, and resilience. Drive continuous improvement, advise senior stakeholders, and build relationships across technical teams, the business, and external partners while ensuring regulatory and organisational alignment.

Provides legal advice to Sydney Water, with a focus on construction law, major projects, infrastructure, procurement, commercial agreements, operations, and claims management. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating contracts, advising on legislation and legal risks, supporting commercial teams, managing stakeholder relationships, and contributing to legal knowledge management.

Supports Sydney Water’s workforce strategy by analyzing workforce data, labor costs, gaps, risks, and business drivers. Develops workforce models and recommendations, coordinates people metrics, and partners with HR teams and senior leaders on recruitment, talent, diversity and inclusion, learning, and development outcomes. Helps mature workforce planning capabilities and informs strategic decision-making through data analysis, dashboards, and stakeholder engagement.

Lead the development, procurement, and delivery of complex water infrastructure projects valued at $750 million to $1.5 billion. Provide strategic leadership to multidisciplinary teams, manage contractors and stakeholders, oversee commercial and technical risks, and ensure projects meet safety, schedule, budget, quality, regulatory, sustainability, and business requirements. The role involves project governance, approvals, planning, procurement, contract management, change management, and delivery of major infrastructure programs across Sydney Water.