Integrated Water Cycle Engineer - Water Sensitive City

• Support City of Newcastle in delivering a Water Sensitive City
• Permanent 35-hour working week
• Numerous flexible working arrangements on offer

Are you passionate about making impactful changes and excited at the opportunity to deliver a world class water sensitive city?

A permanent opportunity has become available for an Integrated Water Cycle Engineer to develop and facilitate the delivery of CN's Water-Sensitive City (WSC) Action Plan as a key deliverable of the Newcastle Environment Strategy (NES) and CN's 10-year road map for a sustainable Newcastle.

As a member of our team, you won't just work for the city; you’ll co-create it. Here, your ideas and efforts directly shape the places where you and your community live, work, and play.

You will apply your skills and experience to identify opportunities to drive CN to becoming a water-sensitive city through governance, community engagement, adaptive infrastructure, resource efficiency and mitigation of flood impacts, as well as enhancing open spaces and ecological health through creating public spaces that collect, clean and recycle water.

As the subject matter expert you will also provide specialist advice to internal and external stakeholders regarding the application of best practice urban water management and facilitate the integration of water-sensitive city principles into CN's policies, plans and projects.

This position is an opportunity to provide a positive impact to our city and for our community.

Find out more about your new career by viewing the position description here.

Why join CN?

• 35-hour working week with flexible/hybrid work arrangements/model as well as an optional 9-day fortnight
• 4 weeks of annual leave, 3 weeks of personal leave plus 2 additional paid public holidays
• 17.5% annual leave loading yearly payment 
• Paid parental leave for primary carers
• Industry leading employment conditions
• Corporate Fitness program from as little as $6.45 per week
• Access to a range of exclusive CN employee benefits programs including Novated Lease options as well as access to reward and recognition vouchers
• Annual performance development plans and ongoing training and development opportunities
• Leading the CN Way leadership program
• Inclusion, Diversity & Equity (IDE) employee networks and initiatives
• Access to Health & Wellbeing programs including an Onsite Physiotherapist, Yoga and Mental Health Ambassador Groups

Life at CN

At CN, we value our employees, and their wellbeing takes priority. We encourage employees to make time for what's important and provide the benefits to enable a work life balance.

We are focused on making a real difference in our community and achieving our vision of creating a smart, liveable, and sustainable global city.  We are proud to deliver services valued by our community. 

We champion inclusion so that everyone is valued, and we encourage innovation and creativity. We are committed to creating a safe and inclusive workplace where different styles, backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, encouraged, and respected.

People with diverse lived experiences (including but not limited to, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, people with diverse gender identities and sexualities, people from different cultural, racial, ethnic, religious and linguistic backgrounds, people with disability, carers, and veterans) are encouraged to apply.

Application Closing Date: Sunday 20 April 2025

Remuneration:  $120,061.83 + CLA + 11.5% Superannuation per annum for a 35-hour week

Contact: Philippa Hill - Environmental Strategy Manager - 02 4974 2615

If you need any adjustments to be made to the recruitment process or if you would like to discuss any accessibility requirements, please contact recruit@ncc.nsw.gov.au for a confidential discussion.

You must have the right to live and work in Australia to apply for this job.

CN do not accept unsolicited resumes and we respectfully ask that recruitment agencies do not contact us at this stage.