Barwon Water

Barwon Water (Barwon Region Water Corporation) is Victoria’s largest regional urban water corporation. For more than 110 years, we have supported regional prosperity by providing water, sewerage and recycled water services to our customers and the community.

Our vision is for an economically, socially and environmentally prosperous region.

Our mission is to strengthen our region's economy, liveability and sustainability through the delivery of high quality and affordable water and sewerage services.

At Barwon Water, we lead, we learn, we deliver. Join us and be part of a team that sets ambitious targets to support a thriving community and region.

Working at Barwon Water

Barwon Water is one of the region’s largest and most progressive employers. Barwon Asset Solutions (BAS), our wholly-owned subsidiary, is a 100% locally-based maintenance services and project management company. We care for our customers, community, region, the environment and each other, and we are always looking for like-minded people to join our team.

Our Values

• Courageous

• Caring

• Safe

• Inclusive

• Accountable

Employee benefits

We care about you, and we know that a happy and healthy workforce is an engaged and productive one.

You will be offered a range of benefits including work variety, flexible leave options, professional development opportunities and an award-winning health and wellbeing program, including a dedicated Employee Assistance Program for First Nations employees.

Our award-winning Head Office has purpose-built facilities including a parent’s room, mindfulness room and end of trip facilities with change rooms and a secure lock up for your bicycle.

Belonging and Inclusion

We celebrate our diversity, show respect and appreciate the unique talents and perspectives each of us brings to work. Diverse voices bring different views and experiences together to help us find the best solutions.

We can set diversity targets and measure progress in numbers, but inclusion is deeper and harder to measure. An inclusive workplace asks: is our culture able to support every employee to contribute, optimise their potential, grow, and be valued for who they are?

An inclusive culture is the responsibility of every employee, individually and collectively. That is why we provide evidence-based diversity and inclusion training to all our employees.

Early Career Opportunities

Looking to kick start your career? Through key industry and tertiary partnerships, we offer a number of early-career development programs. Whether you’re a trainee or apprentice, a recent university graduate or even a PhD candidate, explore your options with us.

Options include

• Traineeships

• Graduate Program

• Summer Internships

• Scholarships and industry-based internships

Our Recruitment Process

Apply online

If you’ve found the job you’re looking for and think you would be a good fit, apply online. If you would like to discuss the job before you apply, please get in touch. Most of our vacancies include a direct phone number, usually for the person you’ll be reporting to.

You will receive an automatic acknowledgement of your application within 48 hours. If you’ve progressed to the next stage, you’ll hear from a member of our People (human resources) team. If you haven’t heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, your application hasn’t progressed. We don’t notify unsuccessful applicants directly.

We don’t accept speculative applications, and we won’t keep your résumé on file for future openings.

Our interview process

Interviews can be a bit daunting, but we encourage you to be as relaxed as possible. We’ve read your application and we like what we see, and now we want to know a bit more about you. As far as possible, we conduct our interviews in an informal and conversational style.

Starting right

We’re excited that you have chosen Barwon Water to further your career. We want you to feel welcomed and supported through our 12 month Employee Onboarding Experience.

This includes a day-long site tour of some of our reservoirs and treatment plants. It’s a great way to meet other new joiners and to see how our work across our service region of over 8,000 square kilometres delivers water to our customers.

You will also take part in a Connection to Country excursion to one of the many culturally significant sites across our region, hosted by the Traditional Owners from the Wadawarrung community. This in-depth program lays the foundation for an appropriate and respectful workplace culture for all employees.