Works Planner X 2

Plan preventative & corrective maintenance across a large maintenance area
- Ongoing development and opportunities in a supportive team environment
- Based at our Sunshine Coast or Moreton Bay office with hybrid work available

**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.
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**About the role**:
As a Works Planner - Electrical, you’ll lead the planning and coordination of preventative and corrective maintenance across a large operational area. Your work will help ensure essential infrastructure runs safely, efficiently, and in line with drinking water and regulatory standards—supporting reliability, resource optimisation, and a quality customer experience. Your key responsibilities include but not be limited to:

- Prioritise and allocate work across Field Services and Mech / Elec teams, providing fully planned work packs to schedulers
- Scope and estimate jobs, ensuring accurate resourcing and lead times
- Collaborate with operations, treatment plant, engineering, and isolation planning teams to minimise downtime
- Track work progress, manage variations, and ensure accurate data in maintenance systems
- Promote safe work practices and identify future maintenance needs using dashboards and stakeholder insights

**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:

- Ideally you will have an electrical trade background and / or electrical planning experience, or qualifications in Engineering, Project Management or the Water Industry.
- Previous experience in multidisciplinary planning and coordinating field maintenance across large and / or varied asset portfolios
- Ability to build strong relationships and communicate clearly to align stakeholders on requirements and outcomes.
- Demonstrated success using critical thinking and problem-solving skills to produce outcomes
- Ability to analyse high-level data to plan future work and optimise resources
- Proficiency with maintenance systems like Maximo, SAP PM, Ellipse or similar
- Solid understanding of water utility operations and regulatory obligations
- A flexible, problem-solving mindset and ability to manage changing priorities

**Working at Unitywater**:
As a Unitywater team member you will enjoy a range of benefits:

- **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.
- **Extras**:We invite you to join our dedicated employee networks focused on First Nations Reconciliation, LGBTIQ+, CALD, Gender, Life Stage diversity, and Accessibility.

We celebrate, value and include people of all backgrounds, gender and expressions, sexualities, cultures, bodies and abilities. We are committed to a workforce that reflects the diversity of the community we serve and fostering a workplace that is diverse and inclusive, where you feel connected, are safe to be yourself and supported to be the best version of yourself.

**Additional information**:

- We are proud to be recognized as an employer of choice for women by **WORK180**.
- We are proud members of **Pride in Diversity** and **Australian Disability Network**.
- We are a **2025 Circle Back Initiative Employer** - we commit to respond to every applicant.

***How to apply**:
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 Monday 14 July.
- 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