Studies Manager

4 weeks ago

Brisbane City, Australia Queensland Urban Utilities Full time

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. As leaders, we inspire and empower our passionate team to drive meaningful change. Join us in shaping the future of Urban Utilities, making a lasting impact, and leading our teams towards a better tomorrow.

Your Opportunity

We have a newly shaped opportunity for a Studies Manager within our Water Ventures team, which is part of our Environmental & Industrial Group.

Our Water Ventures team does work that you wouldn’t typically expect in a regulated utility - creating new solutions for industrial, commercial, and residential customers, within and beyond our service territory. We collaborate with our customers and stakeholders to shape opportunities, develop the new products and services, and ultimately operate the commercial business units.

The Studies Manager collaborates with stakeholders across every aspect of our business to deliver end-to-end studies from desktop to feasibility level. These studies are central to advancing and delivering our Grow & Adapt program, which will help achieve strategic financial resilience and to build capacity to deliver our purpose – to Enrich Quality of Life.

Key Accountabilities

  • Lead a team and drive for fast execution of strategic initiatives. Collaborate with others to form approved work programs, ensuring that program progress and deliverables meet agreed milestones and outcomes
  • Plan and lead the delivery of a range of information gathering, analysis, and stakeholder consultation activities and specify, negotiate, and agree on project deliverables.
  • Manage a portfolio of capital projects ,manage the production of project and workstream plans, ensuring that all activities are identified, are appropriately organized and resourced to deliver project objectives.
  • Identify and evaluate complex, expertise-led solutions against a range of criteria to find the ones that best meet business needs. Conduct options analysis and develop business cases for approval in conjunction with key internal stakeholders and customers.
  • Develop and implement stakeholder engagement plans for projects to identify relevant stakeholders, to develop positive stakeholder relationships, and to ensure that each stakeholder has an appropriate share of voice.
  • Manage the project review process, provide stakeholders and Executive team with accurate and relevant information and key recommendations at agreed review points to enable them to evaluate progress and agree on change.

About You:

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

  • Bachelor of Engineering, and/or Post Graduate qualifications in Project Management or Business Administration or equivalent experience.
  • Prior experience in brownfields project management, leading expansion/feasibility studies that vary between $10M - $200M.
  • You will bring core project management skills including stakeholder engagement, change management, program planning and budgeting, and project reporting
  • Have a critical thinking and growth mindset when looking to de-bottleneck problems whilst exhibiting high levels of perseverance and resilience, and can develop program and portfolio plans to address, develop, and execute on these initiatives.
  • You are a big picture thinker, natural collaborator, and enjoy creating strong interpersonal relationships with internal and external stakeholder groups.

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” link below to complete your application.

Please note: applicants will be required to undergo a Pre-employment medical & National Police History Check and other background checks as part of the recruitment process for this role.

For further information please contact our Talent team at careers@urbanutilities.com.au

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