Senior Design Lead, Energy & Renewables in Melbourne

Our world demands low carbon energy solutions to achieve a Net Zero future. As we transition from traditional energy sources to renewable alternatives, you can play a key role in enabling and accelerating this change. We’ll support you every step of the way as you join us in finding sustainable energy solutions to make a positive impact that will last for generations.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Design Manager to join our Victoria & Tasmania Energy market. We’re looking for a committed power industry leader who combines trusted relationships, initiative and persistence with sound engineering judgement and a commitment to client value. The role will ideally be based in our Melbourne or Hobart offices, but we are open to discussions about being based in other GHD offices across the two states.

This is not solely a technical delivery role. Success will depend on being visible in the market, maintaining purposeful contact with clients, understanding their investment priorities and converting those relationships into valuable work for GHD.

Working with an energetic and high-performing team, this position offers a variety of work and will see you involved in:

• Proactively win work by originating opportunities, shaping pursuits, leading proposals and converting client relationships into secured projects.
• Providing senior, client-facing leadership across complex, multidisciplinary energy projects, with accountability for project governance, commercial performance and successful delivery.
• Acting as Project Director, Design Manager and/or Owner’s Engineer across projects from development and pre-FID through to detailed design, construction and execution.
• Leading and coordinating multidisciplinary project teams, including allocating responsibilities, setting priorities and ensuring project milestones, quality requirements and client expectations are met.
• Building trusted relationships with utilities, developers, energy agencies and delivery partners to understand emerging needs and position GHD to support their investment programs.
• Identifying and developing new opportunities, leading proposals and bringing together the right capabilities from across GHD to shape and secure work.
• Establishing effective design management standards, systems and processes within a commercial construction environment, including managing client and contractor interfaces.

What you will bring to the team:

• Well-developed client engagement and business development capability, with experience identifying opportunities, leading proposals and converting relationships into successfully delivered work.
• Relevant power and renewable energy experience, ideally including transmission infrastructure, wind generation and battery energy storage systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, coupled with 15+ years’ of experience, ideally in an engineering consultancy, construction or utility environment.
• CPEng and RPEV or equivalent professional registration, or the ability to obtain RPEV.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, multidisciplinary energy projects at Project Director or senior Design Manager level.
• Experience as a senior technical manager ideally in both the roles of Owner’s Engineer experience across both pre and post-FID stages of major energy projects.
• Design management within a Design & Construction environment, including oversight of technical interfaces, design risk, quality and constructability.

GHD is an equal opportunity employer, and we want everyone to be able to fully participate in our recruitment process. We value a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people of all identities. GHD embraces a range of flexible work practices to create a work environment focused on well-being, flexibility and productivity where our people can thrive.