Your New Role:
Kempsey Shire Council is seeking a motivated and forward-thinking engineer to join our Water and Sewer team and help support sustainable growth across the region. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the planning, assessment, and protection of critical water and sewer infrastructure, ensuring new development is serviced efficiently while supporting community growth, environmental outcomes, and long-term asset sustainability.
We encourage applications from engineers across all stages of their career, including those with experience in operations, design, maintenance, asset management, hydraulic modelling, or project delivery. Whether your background is in local government, consulting, or utilities, with the right attitude your expertise will play a key role in supporting strategic planning, capital works investigations, and infrastructure upgrades.
This role offers a unique opportunity to influence how new development is serviced across the Kempsey Shire while working closely with developers, consultants, planners, and operational teams. You will help shape servicing outcomes for residential, commercial, and industrial growth, undertake hydraulic modelling and network investigations, identify and prioritise future infrastructure renewals, develop servicing strategies, and provide specialist advice that supports sustainable growth while protecting and enhancing Council’s water and sewer infrastructure for future generations.
The role combines development engineering, hydraulic modelling, network planning and infrastructure renewal prioritisation, providing a diverse and rewarding mix of technical, strategic and stakeholder-focused work.
For a full list of the Key Accountabilities of the role, please refer to the Position Description.
About You:
You are a collaborative and solutions-focused engineering professional who enjoys working across technical, strategic and customer-facing projects.
You have experience in water and sewer infrastructure planning, development engineering, network operations, asset management, hydraulic modelling, design, construction or a related field, and understand the important role essential infrastructure plays in supporting sustainable community growth.
You are confident interpreting engineering designs, hydraulic assessments and technical documentation, and can provide clear, practical advice to a broad range of stakeholders. Your strong communication and relationship-building skills allow you to work effectively with developers, consultants, regulatory agencies and internal teams to achieve positive outcomes while maintaining high engineering and customer service standards.
To be successful in this role, you will have:
- Degree qualifications in Engineering (or equivalent demonstrated skills and extensive experience within the water and sewer industry).
- A current Class C Driver Licence.
- A General Construction Induction Card (White Card), or a willingness to obtain.
- Ability to interpret technical drawings, GIS data, and reports.
- High-level written and verbal communication skills with strong interpersonal and negotiation abilities.
The following qualifications, training or experience will be highly regarded:
- Experience with water supply modelling and network management using InfoWorks WS Pro.
- Construction, on-site delivery, inspection, design or project management experience associated with water and sewer network infrastructure.
- Experience in water and sewer network operations, asset management, development servicing, infrastructure planning, or renewal prioritisation.
- Training or experience in WSAA codes and standards, and network analysis, development engineering, or water and sewer infrastructure planning.
We welcome applications from engineers at all stages of their career who are keen to develop their skills and contribute to the future of water and sewer infrastructure in the Kempsey Shire.
About Us:
Kempsey Shire Council (KSC) is located on the Mid North Coast of NSW, known for its genuine hospitality, pristine beaches, sub-tropical rainforests, mountain ranges, rock river gorges, sprawling farmland and peaceful villages.
We are a progressive, proactive and dynamic organisation, and we pride ourselves on the respectful and supportive workplace we have cultivated. With 360+ dedicated staff managing $1.8 billion worth of assets across many sites throughout the Shire, KSC work closely with our community to build an inspired, connected Macleay Valley.
Why Join Us?
As the successful candidate, you’ll enjoy:
- A permanent full-time position, 35 hour work week
- Monthly RDO’s
- Weekly salary of $2,151.61 to $2,421.66 (approximately $111,883.72 to $125,926.32 per annum),
- 3.5% civil liability allowance (for eligible engineers).
- 12% Superannuation
- Generous leave entitlements, including access to Long Service Leave after five years.
- A working environment focussed on wellbeing, including flexible work arrangements, rostered days off, EAP access, social club, and health and wellbeing programs.
- Fitness Passports for discounted access to a range of gym and pool facilities.
- Career development and learning opportunities.
- Lease back vehicle.
- Novated Leasing and salary packaging options.
- A supportive, collaborative working environment designed to help you grow!
- A fantastic lifestyle and work life balance, on the beautiful Mid-North Coast.
Interested?
Please apply via Council’s website http://careers.kempsey.nsw.gov.au/. Note that you will be required to prepare and submit:
- A short statement (maximum 2 pages) outlining how your experience, abilities, knowledge and personal qualities will enable you to achieve the key accountabilities of the role (as listed in the Position Description); and
- Your current resume.
Applications Close: COB Sunday, 16 August 2026
Please note that Council reserves the right to close this job advertisement before the stated closing date if a suitable candidate is found. Therefore, we encourage all interested applicants to submit their applications as soon as possible.
Have questions? Please contact Andrew Miller â Water and Sewer Services Planning Manager, for a confidential discussion on Ph: 02 6566 3200.
Please Note: Our recruitment notification process is primarily via system generated emails. Please ensure your email is correct before submitting your application to avoid missing crucial updates.
If you experience any difficulties applying online, please contact the Recruitment team on 02 6566 3200 or email [email protected]
Thank you and good luck with your application.
Kempsey Shire Council is an equal opportunity employer and we celebrate our diverse, inclusive and values-led workforce. We welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with diverse culture and linguistic backgrounds and people with a disability. In addition, Kempsey Shire Council will provide reasonable adjustments for suitably qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require additional assistance to participate in the recruitment process, please discuss with the advertised contact person. You can ask for reasonable adjustments to be made at any time during the recruitment process.
