About you:
Are you an excellent communicator with a passion for working in great teams?
Do you have strong technical knowledge and a problem solving mindset?
Do you thrive in a busy workplace with exciting and varied work?
If you answered yes to the above questions, we would love to meet you! We are seeking someone who has a desire to further develop their career with Water Corporation.
Ideally, you are an enthusiastic, eager-to-learn, technically proficient engineer who has well-developed communication skills. We'd love for you to join us in ensuring our sewer network remains safe!
Who are we?
When you join Water Corporation, you play an important role for the people of WA. Our services are essential for life - everyday, millions of Western Australians rely on us to deliver and manage water across our state.
If you’re driven to make a meaningful contribution, you’ve come to the right place.
Real benefits that matter
• Real flexibility with options to work from home, 9-day fortnight, flexible work hours
• Two well-being days each year to do whatever you need to do to feel good
• Access to long service leave pro rata after 3 years of service
• Take advantage of our co-contribution superannuation scheme. Receive a 12% employer contribution and enjoy an additional 2% employer co-contribution when you elect to salary sacrifice 2%.
• Purchase additional leave of up to 12 weeks or work 4 years at a reduced salary and take the fifth year off as paid leave
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural and ceremonial leave of up to 5 days so you can maintain your cultural connection and wellbeing.
Discover more benefits we offer to support the unique and individual ways our employees live.
About the role:
This is a fantastic opportunity to work client-side with a skilled, multidisciplinary team in a fast-paced, exciting and diverse workplace.
In the Civil Engineering Operations Support Team, you will provide essential technical support to the operational contingent of WA's principal supplier of water, wastewater & drainage services.
At Water Corporation, the safety and wellbeing of our employees comes first. In the workplace, this means excellent work life balance and the opportunity to implement hybrid working arrangements including 9 day fortnights, flexible working hours and working from home.
This Role will report to the Senior Engineer — Civil and will be responsible for undertaking engineering support to assist in the provision and management of the state's wastewater asset base.
What the role will involve:
• Providing technical guidance in essential reactive repair work (sinkholes, bursts, blockages etc.)
• Undertaking Investigations and preparing of technical reports
• Planning and reviewing proactive asset maintenance
• Delivering minor projects to address deficiencies in our ageing assets
• Investigating customer queries and working with Local Government representatives to achieve the best common outcome
• Reviewing proposed projects to ensure that they are safely and efficiently operable and maintainable throughout the life of the asset
• Communicate the needs and preferences of our operational team to the technical and leadership stakeholders within Water Corporation
Key skills and experience:
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or equivalent with significant civil water industry experience.
• Comprehensive technical knowledge of the design, operation and maintenance of water, wastewater and drainage assets.
• Excellent communication skills and a willingness to learn and work across multiple teams to achieve the required outcome.
• Considerable maintenance and asset health experience providing civil engineering and/or technical support in a utility business, engineering consultancy or a heavy engineering and construction environment.
• Relevant professional engineering experience in supporting teams in evaluating and resolving construction/constructability and technical issues.
• A working knowledge of computerised maintenance management systems such as SAP/Maximo is desirable.
• Australian "C" Class drivers' licence
Sound like a match? Apply today
If you are interested in the above opportunity, please submit a covering letter and resume that best demonstrates your skills and experience as well as your ability to meet the requirements of the role.
As part of the recruitment process you may be required to complete pre-employment screening which may include a medical, qualification check, police clearance and Australian working rights check.
Applications close 1st of July 2026
Our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace:
Diversity and inclusion are more than words. They guide us on building a thriving workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers and our community.
We encourage applications from every background, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, women, youth, LGBTQIA+ folks and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
We are committed to ensuring an accessible and inclusive work environment to enable people with disability to participate fully in all aspects of employment.
Applicants with disability who require adjustments during the recruitment process including an alternative format of the application form, can contact a Recruitment Officer at recruitment@watercorporation.com.au or 08 9420 2000.
To read our diversity and inclusion statement, please visit our website
We’re the principal supplier of water, wastewater and drainage services in Western Australia to hundreds of thousands of homes, businesses and farms, as well as providing bulk water to farms for irrigation.
Our services, projects and activities span over 2.6 million square kilometres. We have regional offices in Perth, Bunbury, Albany, Karratha, Geraldton, Northam and Kalgoorlie which allow our employees to provide a high level of professional expertise to customers.
We have over 3,500 employees and manage an asset base of over $37 billion in water supply, wastewater, drainage infrastructure and bulk water for irrigation.
We’re owned by the Western Australian Government and are accountable to our sole shareholder, the Minister for Water, for delivery of our services in a commercial manner. Most of our surplus is returned to the government as a dividend to contribute to the development of the state, with the remainder reinvested in capital works.
Water Corporation was created in January 1996, in a restructure of the water industry in Western Australia. The Water Authority in turn had been created in 1985 through a merger of the former Metropolitan Water Authority, which operated in Perth, the state capital, and the water and wastewater operations of the former WA Public Works Department. We’re the seventh successive agency to deal with these services in Perth, Western Australia.
We're evolving...
Living on the world’s driest continent, the biggest challenge we face is reducing the impact of climate change.
It’s never been more important to work collaboratively with government, industry, and the community, to secure our water future and take care of our home state.
To support these efforts, our vision focuses on our operations having the lowest possible environmental impact, are safe for all, and are delivered at the lowest total cost.
