About the role:
Support the Perth Regional Field Services (PRFS) Team in efficient delivery of Operations and Maintenance services by reliability and engineering expertise, budgetary advice, and technical support. Based in Canning Vale, this role will provide a specialist mechanical consultancy service in the areas of operation, maintenance, and construction of mechanical type assets for the Perth metropolitan distribution assets: Water, Wastewater and Drainage
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.
What the role will involve:
· Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide reliability, engineering and technical expertise, advice, and support to the PRFS team in asset maintenance reliability, significant asset related issues and incident management
· Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide reliability, engineering and technical expertise, advice, and support to PRFS stakeholders in delivery of new assets to the region.
· Prepare technical reports on mechanical asset performance issues and technical matters related water, wastewater, and drainage assets[SD1]
· Support PRFS in the review of routine maintenance to ensure all risks are quantified and risk mitigation strategies are developed, implemented, and communicated across the business in relation to mechanical assets and their ability to comply with performance standards and requirements.
· Communicate engineering, operator driven reliability and technical best practice across the Perth region.
· Part of a team providing a centre of expertise for mechanical plant repair, maintenance, and refurbishment
· Identify significant asset failure events and assess risk of failures occurring using root cause analysis investigation, CBM and risk management frameworks.
Key skills and experience:
· Degree level qualification in mechanical engineering and maintenance and asset experience
· Experience in the provision of maintenance support and asset enhancement services for mechanical assets with specific experience in the water & wastewater industry
· Demonstrated excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate effectively across all levels of business
· Experience in the investigation and analysis of mechanical engineering problems
· Experience in technical report writing
· Demonstrated understanding of the legislative and regulatory constraints for mechanical equipment and water and wastewater industry
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 7th 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.
