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.
What does a Water Operator do?
Picture a plumber fixing a burst pipe in your house. Now think about a leaking pipe in the street.
Same problem. The only difference is you’re keeping your community’s water supply running.
As a Water Operator, you’re regularly outdoors. You’re digging trenches, inspecting pipelines, and repairing broken water services.
You’re learning a collection of skills that can set you on your way to a technical, management or leadership role.
Your main concern is keeping the water supply network running. That’s finding and fixing faults on pipes and joints.
It’s upgrading the water supply network and it’s understanding the end-to-end water cycle and how water networks help your local community.
You will be playing a big part in maintaining some of the 56,800km of pipelines that stretch across WA.
Not only will you add a nationally recognised qualification to your belt (which we pay for), you’ll also learn a set of extra skills that could have you on your way to a senior technical or leadership role.
Sounds good, but how do you get a foot in the water industry door?... It’s relatively straightforward. All you need is an interest for learning new things and a love of the outdoors.
Participating in safe job planning, team meetings and workplace inspections
Ensuring all work is undertaken with safety as the first priority where no injury is considered acceptable, and all activities are undertaken without compromising health and safety.
Operate, maintain, monitor, and repair water and wastewater assets, operational sites, and public facilities as required.
Participate in overtime and call out rosters as required.
Discover more benefits we offer to support the unique and individual ways our employees live.
· Western Australian “C” Class Drivers Licence
· Experience in water quality preferred and/or water supply and/or wastewater systems.
· Certificate III in National Water Package otherwise willing to undertake the traineeship.
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 will be required to complete pre-employment screening which commonly include - but not limited to - a medical, qualification check, police clearance and Australian working rights check. If you would like the full list of pre-employment screening checks prior to applying, please contact recruitment@watercorporation.com.au
Applications close 11th October 2026
We reserve the right to withdraw this ad prior to the closing date
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.
