About Us
Our vision is powered by a deep commitment to enhancing the quality of services we offer to our community. Today, Lismore is flourishing, and it's the perfect time for those who live, work, and play here to embrace and celebrate everything that makes Lismore so special.
Shape your future. Serve your Community. Belong to something bigger.
We warmly welcome individuals who bring fresh perspectives and unique skills, helping to enrich our collective vision for a vibrant and thriving community.
About this Position:
The Strategic Engineer is responsible for delivering strategic planning initiatives that advance the development of our water, sewerage and urban stormwater assets. This role provides technical expertise and strategic guidance to ensure the delivery of safe, sustainable, and cost-effective provision of critical water, sewer and urban stormwater services.
The position involves assessing existing water, sewer and urban stormwater systems, forecasting future demand, developing capital and operational plans, and ensuring compliance with regulatory, environmental, and community standards.
What We can offer you:
- A permanent position with meaningful community impact
- Flexible work options working within operational requirements.
- Employee Assistance and Health & Wellbeing Programs.
- Training and development opportunities.
- Discounted membership to a range of gym and pool facilities.
What we trust you to deliver:
- Analyse problems, develop and evaluate alternative scenarios, and contribute to practical, evidence-based solutions for delivery under Local Government project delivery frameworks.
- Provides justified and articulate advice to support strategic planning, and asset investment decisions that facilitate effective long-term capital investment plans that are cognisant of operational, legislative and delivery constraints.
- Delivers projects and services in a professional, timely, and customer-focused way.
- Supports project and resource planning to align with priorities and responsibilities.
- Communicates clearly to engage stakeholders, influence outcomes, and collaborate effectively.
- Contribute to continuous improvement and enhanced service delivery.
- Manages assigned projects and resources responsibly, meeting budgets, timelines, and compliance requirements.
- Carry out responsibilities in accordance with regulatory and legislative requirements and account for emerging industry influences.
What you will need to be successful:
- Proven experience in water, sewerage and urban stormwater infrastructure planning, design and/or delivery.
- Strong understanding of the regulations and standards for the planning, design, construction and operation of water supply, sewerage, and stormwater systems.
- Experience providing technical advice to support evidence-based planning and investment decisions.
- Knowledge of legislative, regulatory, and environmental requirements affecting water, sewerage and urban stormwater services in Australia.
- Demonstrated project management skills, including planning, prioritising, and delivering projects on time and within budget.
- Relevant tertiary qualifications in Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering or related discipline.
- Membership of an appropriate professional institute or willingness to join e.g. Engineers Australia, Australia Water Association.
- SafeWork Construction Induction Certificate
- Current Class C Driver’s Licence
Full position description:
Full Time: 70 hours per fortnight
Salary: A competitive salary will be offered to the successful applicant based on relevant skills and experience
Closing date: Monday 29 June at 9:00am
Contact: If you want to know more about this opportunity, please contact Kimberley Taylor, Acting Manager Engineering on 0487 110 612.
Conditions of Employment: Conditions of employment are in the Local Government (State) Award and relevant Council policy, procedures and agreements
Pre-employment Screening: Prior to employment, there will be a series of pre-employment checks that may include, health assessments, validation of right to work in Australia, validation of qualifications and licences, criminal history checks, psychometric assessments and referee checks.
Immunisation Program
Council has an immunisation program to provide employees with vaccinations against known health risks associated with their respective duties and to identify any exposure to products that may affect an employee’s health, fitness and wellbeing. This position has been identified as a risk to the employee and as such the successful applicant/s will be required to participate in the immunisation program and it is the applicant’s responsibility to have undertaken relevant immunisation/s prior to commencement with Council.
We care about people as individuals and are committed to diversity, inclusion, and new ways of working. We encourage applications from people of any age, gender, ethnicity, cultural background, faith, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity.
