Compliance - Senior Officer

About the role 

The role involves a combination of office-based and field-based responsibilities. Office duties include reviewing and reporting on trade waste sampling results, while field activities involve conducting compliance inspections and sampling of high-risk trade waste customers to ensure adherence to trade waste permit conditions.

Working within the Commercial and Industrial Waste Section, you will report directly to the Team Leader Compliance Operations.

This position has been established to provide coverage and support ongoing programs during a period of extended leave.

Who we are

When you join Water Corporation, you play an important role for the people of WA. Our services are essential for life - everyday, millions of Western Australians rely on us to deliver and manage water across our state.

If you’re driven to make a meaningful contribution, you’ve come to the right place.

Real benefits that matter

• Real flexibility with options to work from home, flexible work hours
• Two well-being days each year to recharge, relax and enjoy life (separate to standard paid sick/personal leave)
• Access to long service leave pro rata after 3 years of service
• Take advantage of our co-contribution superannuation scheme. Receive a 12% employer contribution and enjoy an additional 2% employer co-contribution when you elect to salary sacrifice 2%  
• Purchase additional leave of up to 12 weeks or work 4 years at a reduced salary and take the fifth year off as paid leave
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural and ceremonial leave of up to 5 days so you can maintain your cultural connection and wellbeing.
• Annual leave loading – an extra 17.5% pay when you use your annual leave   

What you can expect with this role

• Compliance management activities relating to trade waste programs. Carrying out compliance inspections, field-based tests and deploying auto samplers to ensure customer compliance.
• Plan, schedule and perform a variety of field and office-based activities related to compliance management of customers’ trade waste requirements to ensure customer compliance with the Corporation’s policies and legislative requirements.
• Translate technical information or legislative requirements to our customers and provide high-quality customer service to Commercial and Industrial customers to ensure compliance requirements are met.

Your skills and experience

For this role, we are looking for great talent with:

• Previous field monitoring compliance experience in a technical or regulatory field, such as Environmental, Wastewater Management or Trade Waste?
• Thrive working within highly structured, well defined and documented processes and are always on the lookout for ways to improve on them?
• Enjoy delivering excellent customer service and building quality relationships with relevant stakeholders at all levels?

Sound like a match? Apply today

If you are interested in the above opportunity, please submit a covering letter and resume that best demonstrates your skills and experience as well as your ability to meet the requirements of the role. 

Applications close 17 November 2026

We reserve the right to withdraw this ad prior to the closing date

As part of the recruitment process you may be required to complete pre-employment screening which commonly include - but not limited to - a medical, qualification check, police clearance and Australian working rights check. If you would like the full list of pre-employment screening checks prior to applying, please contact recruitment@watercorporation.com.au 

Our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace: 

Diversity and inclusion are more than words. They guide us on building a thriving workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers and our community.

We encourage applications from every background, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, women, youth, LGBTQIA+ folks and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

We are committed to ensuring an accessible and inclusive work environment to enable people with disability to participate fully in all aspects of employment.

Applicants with disability who require adjustments during the recruitment process including an alternative format of the application form, can contact a Recruitment Officer at recruitment@watercorporation.com.au or 08 9420 2000.

To read our diversity and inclusion statement, please visit our website