Program Manager

About Seqwater

Water is essential for life. At Seqwater, we're not just delivering water—we're driving innovation, growth and transformation to secure the future of water across South East Queensland.

As one of the largest water businesses with the most geographically spread and diverse asset base of any capital city in Australia, our operations extend from the New South Wales border to the base of the Toowoomba ranges and north to Gympie.

As we enter an exciting period of expansion, we're embracing new technologies and sustainable practices to meet the growing needs of our region. We work collaboratively across our organisation and with our stakeholders, constantly striving to enhance the quality of service we provide. As we modernise our systems and invest in smarter water grids, we remain focused on delivering the highest standard of service, always with the future in mind.

Our transformation is about more than just infrastructure—it's about people. Our team of dedicated professionals are united by a shared passion for creating lasting, meaningful outcomes for the communities we serve, and this is reflected in Our Vision, Water for Life, Our Promise - Safe for Life, and Our Values of integrity, respect, care, and courage that shape everything we do.

You'll be working on some of the most high-profile water infrastructure projects in the industry, helping to secure Water for Life for generations to come.

About Your Opportunity

Step into a pivotal leadership role where your expertise will shape the delivery of South East Queensland's most vital water security projects. As Program Manager, you'll be at the forefront—driving the strategy, coordination, and execution needed to ensure our community's future water supply is secure and sustainable.

Your focus will be on guiding projects from initial evaluation right through to detailed business cases, ensuring every milestone is met on time, within budget, and at the highest standard. You'll craft compelling business cases, develop robust management and assurance plans, and steer project schedules, cost estimates, and key decision papers through every stage.

But your impact goes beyond project delivery. You'll inspire and mentor a talented team of project managers and engineers, nurturing their skills and building the capital delivery capability to meet the evolving needs of our region. Safety, innovation, and continuous improvement will be at the heart of your leadership, creating a workplace where ambition thrives and future challenges are met head-on.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead a team of professionals: Oversee and guide a multidisciplinary team, including Senior Project Managers, Project Managers, Project Engineers, and Project Officers, through the development and delivery of a portfolio of projects to ensure the successful completion of preliminary evaluations and detailed business case project deliverables on time, within budget and to a high standard. Foster a collaborative and high-performance culture within the team.
• Coordinate teams, resources and processes for a program of significant water infrastructure projects whilst identifying interdependencies and leveraging resources and supplies to maximise efficiencies, cost savings, safety and process improvements.
• Manage the development of strategies to engage external providers, including the construction community, to obtain best value in delivery and ensure safety and contract compliance.
• Provide program management expertise in accordance with Seqwater policies and processes and key areas of project management body of knowledge (PMBOK) or similar.
• Develop and manage a comprehensive pipeline of projects within the Water Security portfolio. Ensure that all projects are aligned with strategic objectives including responsibility for procurement, project controls, governance, risk management and reporting and meet the desired level of service objectives set by the Government.

About you

To be successful in this role, you will possess:

• Tertiary qualifications in Engineering, Project Management or similar.
• A minimum of 10 to 15 years' experience in project management.
• Proven ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams and manage external contractors.
• Experience in stakeholder engagement, particularly with government and regulatory bodies.
• Experience with design, planning, option evaluation, asset management and/or delivery of water infrastructure or similar.

Appointment to this role is subject to the provision of a national police check and may be subject to other medical/character requirements. Please note that people with criminal records are not automatically deemed ineligible. Each application will be considered on its merits.

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If you are looking for an extraordinary career in which you can make a real impact, we'd love to hear from you

To apply

Submit your cover letter outlining how you meet the requirements of the role and your resume via the Apply button.

Applications close: 11:55PM AEST, Wednesday 24th September 2025

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