Associate Director (Team Lead) - Electrical

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive

Creating places that matter and communities that thrive.

Our global Buildings and Places business line brings together a versatile and collaborative term of urban planning, building design and engineering professionals working to create liveable, sustainable, and equitable cities. Our extensive expertise cover urbanism and planning, architecture, building and systems engineering, and cost, project, and construction management.  

Together with our clients, we are working to evolve and elevate the built environment across sectors including, social infrastructure, transit, technology and logistics, and commercial and corporate real estate, whilst focusing on solutions that promote long term health and wellbeing for all.

Our diverse Building Services team are looking for an Electrical Team Lead to join their team based in Brisbane. In this role, you will provide technical and team leadership on large-scale projects relating to Healthcare, Defence, Industrial, Transport, Infrastructure, Power and Iconic Developments such as the 2032 Olympic Games.

What will a day in this role look like:

• Manage a team of Electrical Engineers, at varying levels of experience, across several market sectors. Act as a mentor and coach to assist with their development as engineers alongside having oversight of the teams’ strategic project pipeline, resource planning, utilisation and work-sharing. 
• Using your experience and network in the Building Services Consultancy space – lead electrical components of major projects, interact with clients and assist with the development of bids and tenders. 
• Enhance technical expertise and maintain quality within the electrical engineering team, acting as the primary point of contact for resolving technical queries and challenges on projects.
• Use your commercial acumen to guide the delivery of our projects for our clients in a commercially beneficial way for AECOM.

The following qualifications and experience are highly desired, but if you don’t tick all the boxes, you could still be a perfect fit for this role. Please apply, all applications will be considered. 

What are we looking for from you?

• Ideally, 15 + years’  experience within the Electrical Engineering field with extensive experience in designing and delivering Building Services projects across Australia.
• Electrical Engineering Degree alongside appropriate membership and accreditation (CPEng and RPEQ).
• Outstanding technical capability within the Electrical Engineering field with a strong working knowledge of Australian standards, building codes and other regulatory frameworks and practices including AS/NZS 3000, AS/NZS 1680, AS/NZS 2293 and the BCA.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work alongside internal and external stakeholders at varying levels of seniority.
• Firm commitment to sustainability principles and engineering best practices.
• Due to the nature of the projects, Australian Citizenship (or ability to obtain) as well as eligibility for Defence Security Clearance is crucial.

Join us and let’s get started.

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.