Associate Director, ICT and Security in Brisbane

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

Given our strong pipeline of secured and upcoming projects, we are seeking an experienced ICT / Communications and Security leader to join our Brisbane team and provide strategic and technical leadership across a diverse portfolio of projects.

How you’ll make a difference

• Provide strategic and technical leadership for ICT, Communications and Security projects, overseeing project delivery, commercial performance, client engagement and key stakeholder relationships.
• Lead the development and delivery of integrated ICT and Security solutions across structured cabling, IT networks, wireless, VoIP, CCTV, access control, intrusion detection, security alarm systems and cyber security.
• Act as a senior technical advisor to clients, project teams and contractors, providing expert guidance from project inception through design, documentation and construction.
• Develop and maintain strong client relationships, identify opportunities and contribute to business growth and project pursuits.
• Provide technical governance and quality assurance across projects, ensuring solutions meet relevant standards, project requirements and industry best practice.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and national technology advisory groups across major projects in health, education, aviation, defence, justice and other sectors.
• Lead, mentor and develop engineers and technical staff, fostering capability, knowledge sharing and professional growth.

Qualifications

• Relevant Engineering qualification in Electrical, ICT or Communications, with 15+ years’ industry experience and demonstrated senior leadership experience.
• Professional Engineering Registration and relevant Security Advisor Licence, or eligibility to obtain.
• Extensive experience leading ICT, Communications and Security design and consulting services within the Buildings environment.
• Proven ability to lead complex projects, manage senior stakeholders and provide strategic technical advice.
• Strong commercial awareness, including experience with project costing, proposals, resource planning and business development.
• Demonstrated leadership capability, with experience mentoring and developing technical teams.
• Excellent communication, relationship management and consultative skills, with the ability to engage confidently with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

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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.

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.

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

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.