Your Responsibilities

As Executive Director, Water Operations and Systems, you will:

• Lead the department’s regulatory functions across Urban and Rural water delivering effective behaviour change among the regulated community through using the suite of regulatory tools in an effective manner with a proportionate impact on the regulated sector.

• Provide high level strategic advice and analysis to the Minister, Director-General and Deputy Director-General on water resource management regulation and compliance, drinking and recycled water regulation and dam safety regulation.

• Lead a team of four directors to deliver priority outcomes whilst building capacity and maintaining a positive work culture.

• Analyse complex challenges, identify relevant issues, formulate and analyse innovative options for solutions, and forecast and negotiate impacts in order to ensure effective client experience and easier access to government services.

• Develop and maintain effective relationships, and work collaboratively with local, state and federal agencies, water entities, and stakeholders.

• Provide leadership for best practice regulation of drinking water and recycled water service provision and the regulation of dam safety in Queensland. 

• Lead the department’s major investigations and prosecutions functions across all regulatory areas

• Support statewide water planning function in delivery of specialist community engagement capability.

• Lead department’s engagement with Federal agencies around national water reform including the developing effective water markets in Queensland.

• Lead the department’s Emergency Response function and represent the department on relevant Disaster and Security forums

• Represent the department and government in a range of high level regional, state and national forums, including the Regulatory Leaders Forum.

• Lead a financially sustainable, high performance, workforce by implementing a right size organisational structure to deliver key outcomes effectively and efficiently within agreed budget allocation.

• Ensure the development and promotion of an integrated and flexible organisation in line with corporate strategic planning and performance targets.

• Other duties as directed and required.

Your strengths

We’re looking for the best-suited applicant for the role. We focus on your strengths by assessing a combination of your competencies, knowledge-based skills and behaviours. This role necessitates the capabilities of an executive as outlined in the Leadership Competencies for Queensland.

For this role we are looking particularly for strengths in:

• Vision - Provides strategic leadership by articulating a clear organisational vision and adopting a system-wide perspective to address complex challenges through diverse insights and cross-boundary collaboration.

• Results - Drives results by fostering trusted stakeholder relationships and leading a high-performing, collaborative team culture focused on shared outcomes and continuous improvement.

• Accountability - Leads with integrity by modelling ethical behaviour, demonstrating respect for others, and continuously enhancing leadership effectiveness through self-awareness and feedback.