Strategic Asset Planning Engineer

At Urban Utilities, our purpose is simple yet powerful: Enrich Quality of Life. With a $7 billion asset base and services spanning 1.5 million residents and more than 31,000 commercial customers across South East Queensland, we are committed to enhancing the liveability of our communities every day.

Your Opportunity

We have an opportunity in a newly shaped Strategic Asset Planning Engineer 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.

Reporting to the Leader Strategic Asset Planning, the Strategic Asset Planning Engineer supports the development of strategic asset management plans that ensure delivery against servicing strategy, realise value generation and enhance liveability markers for our communities.

The Strategic Asset Planner Engineer contributes to the delivery of Strategic Asset Class Plans (metro and regional), the 10-30-year asset specific baseline renewals program and strategic initiatives aligned with broader asset management objectives to inform the capital and operating investment forecasts.

Some of your accountabilities will include:

• Contributes to the delivery of the whole of service territory context with Integrated Planning team to set out the asset strategic plan design and architecture to support our servicing strategy.
• Help build strategic asset class plans that aim to adapt and validate policy, servicing strategy and actual performance informing how our assets are organised and prioritises integrated plans to develop investment pathways.
• Supports the development of baseline total cost of ownership understanding for water and wastewater assets across the Urban Utilities service territory. Supports development of facility and equipment lifecycle strategies and plans to enable development of asset specific 30-year lifecycle plans.
• Monitors the external environment to gather intelligence on emerging technologies. Assesses and documents the impacts, threats and opportunities to the organisation.
• Contribute to stakeholder engagement through identifying stakeholders, finding out their needs/issues/concern and working through these problems and opportunities in partnership.

About You

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

• You have a growth mindset and are highly collaborative. You will pro-actively engage with stakeholders to align objectives and deliver customer and community focussed outcomes.
• Relevant general work experience in the water, energy, resources, or industrial sectors, performing integrated planning work.
• Experience in managing complex and diverse strategic asset management planning programs within budget and on time whilst maintain an excellent customer service and commercial focused approach.
• Education in Engineering, Infrastructure Management, Planning, Science or a couple of years of relevant work experience.

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?

Urban Utilities delivers essential water and wastewater services to more than 1.5 million people across Southeast Queensland. Every day, our teams work to support thriving communities and a sustainable future.

• 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

There’s no us without you. Come shape the future with us.

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 are open until 11:59pm 29th March, however, shortlisting may commence prior to closure.

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 Talent team at ***email_hidden***