Regional Asset Manager - North

Work. Join Sunwater as Regional Asset Manager for the Northern region where you’ll play a vital role supporting leading and supporting the effective management of diverse range regional assets by ensuring integrity, compliance, and lifecycle optimisation through strategic planning, risk assessment, and strong collaboration with operations and project teams.

This role covers Sunwater’s Northern Region, spanning key operational areas from Mareeba in Far North Queensland through to Mt Isa in the west — a vast geographical footprint supporting agricultural, industrial and urban customers across northern Queensland.

As the Regional Asset Manager for North at Sunwater, you will:

• Provide expert technical support to non-referable asset operations and maintenance teams, ensuring asset data, condition insights, and risk assessments inform decisions and strategies.
• Lead decisions on asset renewal timing and expenditure, balancing risk, performance, and cost, and ensure compliance with Sunwater policies.
• Represent the asset owner in the major development projects and support regional operations and project delivery teams by providing expertise to guide PCM projects through the P3MF process
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of Asset Management Plans and Asset Class Plans to support strategic objectives and lifecycle needs.
• Lead a team of Senior Asset Officers and Asset Engineers, driving performance, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.

We are seeking a talented commercially savvy individual with a minimum of 7+ years’ experience in an asset management leadership position, ideally from operational or planning background. You will hold tertiary qualifications in engineering or a related discipline and preferably hold RPEQ.

You Will Also Bring:

• Demonstrated experience working with asset management systems and tools.
• Proven experience leading a team of Asset Officers and Planning Engineers and the ability to travel extensively in region
• Excellent communication skills with a knack of building relationships across a diverse stakeholder group.

This permanent full-time role offers an array of attractive benefits including a starting salary of $172,722, 12.75% superannuation, access to banked time and TOIL, 17.5% leave loading and a genuine emphasis on work/life balance.

Water. Imagine a career where your work truly matters, where you are part of a team that values you and your contributions. At Sunwater, you will bring life’s most essential resource to over 5,000 agriculture, urban and industrial customers, helping to sustain communities and drive water for prosperity across regional Queensland. We share the values of these communities — starting with caring about our people. Engage in fascinating work that is constantly evolving, allowing you to grow and shape a successful career and develop unique skills and experience in an industry brimming with opportunity.

Life. At Sunwater, we believe our employees are our greatest asset, and we are committed to providing the support, resources and benefits that you need to thrive. That's why we offer a range of attractive benefits designed to help you bring your best every day, including:

• My benefits: Access employee benefits and discounts hosted by Reward Gateway
• My wellbeing: Prioritise your wellbeing with our comprehensive health and wellness offerings and programs
• My time: Enjoy flexible working arrangements and the ability to purchase up to 4 additional weeks of leave, ensuring you can tailor your work to fit your lifestyle
• My growth: We prioritise your professional growth with career development programs, study assistance, support for professional memberships, and structured early career pathways to help you build a rewarding and successful career

Now is the perfect time to join Sunwater and take advantage of the boundless opportunities for your career today and in the future.  We are a diverse team and proud of the unique journeys and stories each of us brings. As we continue to grow, we need more diverse backgrounds and perspectives than ever before. We are committed to a barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. If you require any accommodations, please let us know so we can ensure you can fully participate in our recruitment experience, which includes reference verification, psychometric testing, background checks and a pre-employment medical evaluation to ensure the best fit for our team.

Sunwater acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first peoples of this country and Traditional Custodians of the land and water we rely on. We respect and value their continued sacred connection to Country, including the diverse, rich traditions, languages and customs that are the longest living in the world.  We acknowledge their resilience in the face of significant and ongoing historical, cultural, and political change within Australia. We recognise and value the importance of truth-telling today, and our role to listen and learn.

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