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.
The Infrastructure Planning & Delivery Group contributes to Urban Utilities' purpose and vision and enhances the liveability of our communities through safeguarding financial and economic sustainability of the business, planning to meet the needs of our customers and management of the long-term water cycle and our environmental responsibilities.
Reporting to the Manager – Asset and System Knowledge, the Leader System Modelling is accountable for the development, governance, and strategic application of Urban Utilities' system simulation and scenario analysis capability.
This role defines and enables how the business predicts, tests, and optimises network and treatment system performance before committing investment. It owns the models, calibration standards, model data pipelines, and visualisation platforms that ensure modelling outputs are fit-for-purpose, trusted, and accessible to planners and decision-makers.
You'll inherit an established specialist modelling team and a clear mandate: to build the governance framework for the capability and shape its evolution toward operational, real-time, and digital twin applications as part of Urban Utilities' broader digital direction.
You're a strategic and collaborative leader with deep expertise in process and hydraulic modelling and a passion for using data to solve complex infrastructure challenges. You thrive on building high-performing teams, driving technical excellence and embedding best practice governance to ensure modelling capabilities deliver real business value. You will also have:
Desirable:
At Urban Utilities, we believe our workforce should reflect the community we serve. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences, including First Nations peoples, people with disability, members of the LGBTIQ+ community, veterans, emergency responders and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. You might not meet every single requirement listed. If you are excited about the role and believe you can make a strong contribution, we encourage you to apply. If you require adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know so we can support you.
Urban Utilities delivers essential water and wastewater services to more than 1.5 million people across South East Queensland. Every day, our teams work to support thriving communities and a sustainable future.
There’s no us without you. Come shape the future with us.
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Applicants may 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 careers@urbanutilities.com.au
We’re responsible for delivering world-class drinking water and wastewater services to the growing communities of Brisbane, Ipswich, Lockyer Valley, Somerset and Scenic Rim.
We’re also planning ahead so that we all can live, work, and build around water, now and for decades to come.
At the heart of everything we do is genuine care: For each other, for our customers and communities, and for the environment. We’re there when our customers need us – whether it’s a simple shower or flush of a toilet; major infrastructure works or new residential developments.
Our head office is in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, but our employees work all over SEQ - including at our SAS Laboratory in Darra, field-based depots in Eagle Farm, Acacia Ridge and Bundamba, and wastewater treatment plants located across our region.
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