Principal Engineer

Providing now solutions for immediate problems.

We are currently seeking a Principal Engineer – Mechanical Services to provide specialist advice and services to acute engineering problems relating to our metropolitan assets, including but not limited to our treatment plants and bulk water transmissions. Work in a team that provides immediate advice to current complications to our assets.

Be valued, sprinkle the magic of solutions!

With your technical knowledge and meticulous critical thinking skills, you will be the go-to expert when issues that cannot be rectified immediately are escalated and require a resolution.

Not all heroes wear capes! You will be the hero amongst our operations and maintenance teams who will find comfort and recognition of your paramount wealth of technical knowledge, entrenched trust and being the voice of customer engineering.

This permanent role is based in Osborne Park.

Your next team!

Work in a team with eleven colleagues and a manager who will support you through your journey. A manager who encourages open and honest communication, and who will coach and assist you when you request guidance.

Be welcomed, heard, and supported.

Words of appreciation from a current employee!

You will be part of a friendly team motivated in providing engineering support to water and wastewater treatment plants in the Metro area. You will have an experienced and enthusiastic supervisor who encourages a healthy work / life balance and supports flexible work arrangements.”

Team sounds fantastic, but what can you offer me?

You’ll love the team, but that doesn’t mean to say you want to spend 5 days a week with them! Not a problem, we advocate for work to live, not live to work. Work your full-time hours over 9 days per fortnight, and you can enjoy an RDO. Who wouldn’t love a 3-day weekend each fortnight!

We also offer working from home days and flexible start time.

And if you’re not ready, willing, or capable of working full time hours, we can offer part time 4 days per week (0.80 FTE).

To the fundamentals of the role :

• Serves as first point of reference, providing technical support for incidents, developing solutions to remediate and optimise the performance of assets.
• Ensure that asset condition and risks are understood and appropriately addressed.
• Providing asset condition assessments, identifying risks, incident support and preparing mitigation strategies
• Monitoring the performance of assets systems to ensure that system capability is maintained.
• Supporting project managers undertaking both capital and operating projects and addressing operation and maintenance related issues with advice in a timely manner
• Reviewing designs, documents, and drawings to check and verify compliance.
• Contributing to management and optimisation of assets strategies and initiatives

Sound exciting? Start your application today!

Please submit a covering letter and resume that best demonstrates your ability to meet the requirements of the role.

Applications close Monday 11th September 2023

As part of the recruitment process you will be required to complete Pre-Employment screening which may include a medical, qualification check, police clearance and Australian working rights check.

We reserve the right to withdraw this ad prior to the closing date.

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.

Applicants with disability who require adjustments, or alternative methods of communication in the recruitment process, can contact a Recruitment Officer at recruitment@watercorporation.com.au or 9420 2000.

To read our diversity and inclusion statement, please visit our website