Launch Your Civil Operator Career in Karratha!
Looking for a fresh start and a rewarding career? Join us as a Civil Operator in Karratha, where you’ll enjoy regional living, strong community connection, and the lifestyle opportunities of the Pilbara.
You’ll build practical civil and water industry skills while working outdoors as part of a supportive team. Along the way, you’ll gain fully funded nationally recognised qualifications, setting you up for long-term career progression into senior technical or leadership pathways.
What Does a Civil Operator Do?
Imagine a plumber fixing a burst pipe in your home—now scale that up to a leaking pipe in the street. Same challenge, bigger impact.
As a Civil Operator, you play a vital role in keeping your community’s water and wastewater systems running smoothly. Working outdoors, you’ll be digging trenches, inspecting pipelines, and repairing essential water and sewer services.
This hands-on role equips you with a diverse skill set that can pave the way for technical, management, or leadership opportunities. Your core mission? Maintaining and upgrading the water supply and sewer networks—identifying and repairing faults in pipes, pump stations, and tank sites.
You’ll also gain insight into the complete water cycle, understanding how infrastructure supports your local community. Plus, you’ll be contributing to the upkeep of WA’s extensive 56,800km pipeline network.
Ready to make a real difference? Step into a career as a Civil Operator today!
Sounds good, what’s in it for me?
Your full-time roster will consist of a 9-day fortnight, meaning every second week you will have a 3-day weekend (RDO) to enjoy doing the things you love.
Mix in a supportive, family-friendly culture, a healthy starting salary, and you will have just found yourself a career with Water Corporation.
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.
Please note: By applying for this role, you are consenting to your current and previous line managers being contacted as references. It is strongly recommended that all internal applicants advise their line manager of any applications for acting or permanent positions prior to applying.
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 19th November 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, or alternative methods of communication in the recruitment process, 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.
