About Seqwater
Seqwater is the Queensland Government Bulk Water Supply Authority, responsible for delivering safe, secure and cost-effective bulk water supply for 3.2 million people across Southeast Queensland.
Seqwater is one of the largest water businesses with the most geographically spread and diverse asset base of any capital city water authority. Our operations extend from the New South Wales border to the base of the Toowoomba ranges.
About Your Opportunity
As a Senior Reliability Engineer – Mechanical, you will apply your deep technical knowledge and expertise to develop and implement strategies and plans to manage the reliability of Seqwater's operational assets. Working closely with asset engineers and maintenance teams, you will contribute to asset failure investigations, reliability analysis, and asset condition assessments. You will support the ongoing development and maturity of Seqwater's reliability practices, so they are incorporated into future operational and maintenance asset lifecycle decisions.
You will apply established reliability investigation methodologies and contribute to continuous improvement to enhance the asset management lifecycle and assist Seqwater in achieving alignment to ISO55001.
This Role Is Responsible For
* Deliver a multi‐year strategy and implementation roadmap for proactive and predictive reliability maintenance practices.
* Review equipment failure data and recommend improvements to asset reliability across the organisation.
* Build solid relationships with external and internal stakeholders to coordinate improvements and develop schedules that enhance performance and reliability.
* Lead investigations for major asset failures using 5‐whys, RCA and ICAM methodologies, and coordinate implementation of recommendations.
* Initiate RCAs and other analytical techniques to interrogate data and drive improvement of asset performance and reporting.
* Design, conduct and manage detailed discipline‐specific asset condition inspections.
* Lead the project to identify problem assets (Bad Actors), develop recommended actions, and manage an education and awareness program to ensure sites implement changes and standardise practices.
* Provide professional engineering reviews of maintenance activities for the Seqwater Maintenance Team as requested.
* Observe and comply with all Seqwater work‐health and safety, quality and environmental management systems and procedures.
* Undertake other duties assigned by the Leader.
About You
* Tertiary qualifications in Mechanical Engineering or related field with significant asset management experience.
* Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland (RPEQ).
* Extensive experience in asset engineering, including maintenance optimisation, reliability improvement, and lifecycle management of mechanical specific infrastructure.
* Knowledge of mechanical design and operational principles for dams, pipelines, water retaining structures and related assets, ideally in the water or heavy industrial sector.
* Class C driver's licence.
* Asset Reliability Practitioner certification (desirable).
* Knowledge of change management and project management methodologies (desirable).
* Strong ability to collaborate, negotiate and influence across diverse stakeholders.
* Proven capability to work effectively in dynamic environments, both autonomously and within a team.
* Demonstrated skill in identifying emerging risks and ensuring timely, effective responses.
Other Requirements
Appointment to this role requires a national police check and may require other medical or character assessments. Candidates with criminal records are not automatically deemed ineligible; each application is considered on its merits.
Compensation and Benefits
This position has a competitive salary range, plus 12.75% superannuation and is full‐time, permanent.
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