Water plays such a huge role in all of our lives. Yes, we need it to keep ourselves clean and hydrated, but it also contributes to a lot of classic Aussie summer activities. Just think of water balloon fights, DIY waterslides, and trips to the pool with your friends! Essentially, what we’re saying is that water is great and that we can’t wait to get behind this year’s National Water Week!
To kick off celebrations Explore Careers-style; we’re taking this opportunity to educate you about why National Water Week is so important and how you could land an incredible water-based career with one of our employer partners! Sounds good? We thought so!
To get involved in this year’s festivities, all you need to do is settle in, get comfy, and keep reading. We’ll do the rest!
What is National Water Week?
National Water Week is a super-underrated event hosted by none other than the Australian Water Association (otherwise known as the AWA). Every year they make a splash across the country by ‘inspiring communities and organisations to work together on water issues and future fixes.’
What’s more, it also pushes another super important message: that we need to be mindful of our water usage and never take it for granted. After all, there are so many parts of the world that aren’t able to access fresh, clean water.
Why is National Water Week Important?
The reason why we love this initiative so much is because it does a great job of highlighting what goes unnoticed so often: water-related innovation spearheaded by those in water jobs and careers!
This Year’s Theme: Accelerating Action
One of the things that makes National Water Week so exciting is that the brilliant minds behind the event think up a brilliant new theme every single year! And this year’s theme, Accelerating Action, couldn’t be more relevant to today’s climate.
Serving as ‘a powerful rally cry for our community to address water’s vital role in the current climate crisis,’ this year’s initiative is intended to ‘spark a collective movement towards a sustainable water future, taking concrete steps to bring about enduring change.’ If you ask us, it sounds like a pretty worthy cause to get behind!
What is a ‘Water Job’?
If you care about water, sustainability and innovation, a water job could be the perfect career for you! However, before we begin to explain how you can land one, we probably need to give you a ‘water job’ definition.
Those with water jobs are involved in the business of providing water and sewerage services to their communities. And while you might think that all water jobs require you to get down and dirty, that isn’t quite the case. Regardless of whether you’re tackling the administration side of the water business or taking on a hands-on water industry worker role, you’re in a water job.
Launch Your Own Career in Water with Unitywater!
If you’re feeling inspired by all this talk about water jobs and water careers, we have the perfect employer for you: Unitywater! You may already be familiar with them, you know, for making sure you have plenty of water to drink, shower, and do any other splishy-splashy activity you want. However, we want to give them a proper introduction and share why you’ll want to consider them as a future employer!
Who is Unitywater?
Unitywater isn’t your average water supply company. Yes, they provide both drinking water and wastewater, but they also ensure that the water their customers get is high quality, safe and reliable. In short, they’re supplying Australia with the good stuff!
What’s more, they also ensure that their business practices are both economical and environmentally sustainable, so employees can go to work knowing that they’re on the right side of the climate battle. If you ask us, water jobs don’t get much better than that!
Why Choose a Career with Unitywater?
Aside from working with a true icon in the Australian water industry, Unitywater also offers tonnes of exciting pathways to help you break into the industry, regardless of what stage of your career you might be at.
To help demystify what these exciting pathways actually are, we’re unpacking all of them below! So, if you’re looking for a way to land a water job, make sure you keep reading – there’s bound to be a perfect fit for any aspiring Unitywater employee!
Graduate Development Program
For those of you who are about to finish up your university journey, Unitywater’s graduate program might just be a perfect fit! Participants have the opportunity to learn and develop skills that will help them in their future careers over the span of a two-year period. What’s more, positions are offered in a range of disciplines, such as engineering, finance, business and IT, so there’s truly something for everyone.
This exciting water job pathway involves:
- Rotations across multiple parts of our diverse business
- Formal training to develop both hard and soft skills
- Incredible networking opportunities
- Mentoring
- Contributing to a team innovation project
Vacation Work Program
Looking for an exciting way to spend your summer holidays and start working towards a rewarding water job? Unitywater’s Vacation Work Program could be the perfect fit for you! And, like their Graduate Development Program, there are a tonne of different disciplines available.
Students participating in this 12-week program will spend their time:
- Learning valuable skills on the job
- Gaining industry experience
- Making a positive contribution to a project or program of work
- Applying the skills and knowledge gained from their studies.
Water Industry Worker Program
Do you want to jump straight into a hands-on water job that gets you out in the field? Unitywater’s Water Industry Worker Program puts participants in the middle of the action, maintaining their network of water and wastewater assets.
The Water Industry Worker program has five progression levels, from entry-level to frontline supervisor. What’s more, this career pathway provides nationally recognised qualifications and the ability to grow knowledge and skills in the water industry.
On-the-job training is provided with the opportunity to obtain the following qualifications and licences:
- Cert II, III and IV Water Industry Operations
- Cert IV Leadership and Management
- Fork Lift Licence
- Drainer Licence
- Truck (HR and MR) Licence
- Traffic Management
- Dogger Licence
- Welding
Land a Water Job Today!
After learning all about National Water Week and our brilliant friends at Unitywater, we’re sure you’re ready to kickstart that water career! All you need to do is visit their dedicated employee profile and start that application; what are you waiting for, there’s no better time than today!
