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.
Your opportunity:
Reporting to the Leader - System Performance and Risk, the System Performance Specialist develops and applies analytical models, data pipelines, and digital products that form part of Urban Utilities' system performance and risk insight capability.
The role translates system performance and risk data into actionable intelligence for Integrated Planning, identifying emerging risks, system constraints, and optimisation opportunities across water and sewer networks. This enables proactive, risk-informed decisions relating to asset lifecycle, operations, and investment planning.
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.
About you:
You're a curious and analytical problem-solver who turns complex data into meaningful insights and builds the models and products that put them to work. You combine engineering judgement about how complex systems perform and fail with strong technical skills in data analytics, predictive modelling and visualisation. Collaborative by nature, you're comfortable working with stakeholders across technical and business teams to support risk-informed decision-making, improve system performance, and drive continuous improvement.
Essential
Tertiary qualifications in a relevant engineering or quantitative discipline - reliability, performance and risk, process, or a related field (Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics) - or equivalent experience and professional development.
Strong capability in data analytics, statistical analysis, risk quantification, and data visualisation.
Demonstrated experience in predictive modelling, risk analytics, and advanced analytics in an infrastructure or utilities context.
Experience building and maintaining analytics products and digital reporting surfaces, and managing them end to end.
Proficiency across analytics and programming tools including SQL, Python or R, and Power BI.
Understanding of asset management principles, service value frameworks, risk assessment methodologies, and system performance assessment.
Desirable
Depth in reliability engineering (RCM, FMEA, RUL, reliability block diagrams) or process engineering (treatment/network process performance, hydraulics, mass balance).
RPEQ or CPEng, or working towards it.
Familiarity with data engineering concepts including ETL/ELT pipelines, medallion architecture, data orchestration, and DevOps/DataOps practices.
Experience with tools such as FME, GitHub, and data visualisation platforms.
Experience working with water and sewer network performance data.
Why Urban Utilities
Urban Utilities delivers essential water and wastewater services to more than 1.5 million people across Southeast Queensland. Every day, our teams work to support thriving communities and a sustainable future.
Generous Salary Packaging options, including novated leases
Corporate discounts across Health insurance, technology and more
18 weeks of paid parental leave, 15 days personal leave including two proactive wellbeing days, and an additional day of leave each year to connect with friends and family
Flexibility at UU depends on the type of work you do but could include options such as, 9-day fortnights and flexible days. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you!
Urban Utilities is an endorsed employer for all women. See our range of benefits and policies directly at WORK180
There’s no us without you. Come shape the future with us.
How to Apply
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Please note: 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 [email protected]
Our Talent team & Hiring Managers kindly request that no unsolicited CVs are sent for this role.
