Jobs at GHD

Leads sustainability strategy development and delivery, climate risk and carbon management advisory, complex client projects, business development, proposals, client relationships, team mentoring, and industry representation. The role supports growth of GHD’s Sustainability Advisory offering across water, transportation, property and buildings, environment, and energy and resources sectors.

Lead complex groundwater impact assessments and regional modelling studies across APAC. Apply advanced numerical modelling, calibration, uncertainty assessment, and PEST-based workflows using tools such as MODFLOW and FEFLOW. Manage projects from proposal through delivery, collaborate across multidisciplinary teams, engage clients, support business development, and mentor groundwater professionals while contributing to technical capability and leadership.

Leads generator connection studies and power systems analysis for renewable energy projects across Australia and New Zealand. Responsibilities include technical leadership, mentoring engineers, client and network-company reporting, project scoping and commercial management, and delivery of load flow, short-circuit, dynamic, and EMTP studies. Requires expertise in power systems software, Fortran and Python programming, grid-forming technologies, Australian electricity rules, and generator connection processes.

Develop and implement stakeholder and community engagement strategies for infrastructure, environmental, and energy projects. Manage complex client projects, build trusted relationships, support business growth and proposals, produce high-quality content, and strengthen communication and engagement practices. The role also involves sharing technical knowledge, mentoring colleagues, contributing to strategic direction, and delivering quality outcomes independently and collaboratively.

Optimize, govern, and automate HR workflows within Oracle Cloud HCM. Responsibilities include auditing employee lifecycle processes, translating HR requirements into system configurations, managing governance and testing, documenting workflows and procedures, collaborating cross-functionally, and supporting adoption through workshops and change-management initiatives.

Designs and delivers earthing, bonding, lightning protection, electromagnetic compatibility, and related electrical infrastructure projects from concept through commissioning. Responsibilities include preparing technical documentation, managing work packages, conducting site inspections, supporting tenders, resolving technical issues, and coordinating with clients and multidisciplinary teams. The role also provides mentoring, training, proposal leadership, and quality and commercial management across energy, transport, resources, and critical infrastructure projects.

Lead pedestrian modelling, crowd movement, people-flow simulation, spatial analysis and movement planning projects. Interpret complex data, provide strategic advice on connectivity and accessibility, prepare technical deliverables, manage project scope and timelines, engage clients, support business development, mentor junior staff, and contribute to innovation and thought leadership across transport, infrastructure, urban development and public realm projects.

Leads GHD’s global talent management strategy and team, aligning workforce capability, succession, leadership readiness, performance, development, mobility, and talent insights with business priorities. Establishes enterprise talent frameworks, governance, and adoption approaches; advises executives on critical roles, skills, succession risks, and talent investments; and promotes internal career growth and capability development. Partners across the People function and business to improve data-driven talent decisions and consistent practices globally.

GHD is recruiting graduates and final-year students for its two-year Graduate Development Program in Melbourne and regional Victoria. Opportunities span civil and electrical engineering, project management, environmental and earth sciences, and legal disciplines. Graduates will support design teams, bids, tenders, consulting projects, and occasional site work while receiving mentoring and structured professional development.

Lead development and ownership of the enterprise cybersecurity strategy and target-state architecture. Represent cyber risk to CTO and Board. Build specialist sub-teams, own vulnerability management and remediation cadence, command incident response, define and govern Zero Trust across Azure/identity/endpoint, oversee AI security posture, and drive CMMC Level 2 and FedRAMP readiness to enable US Federal client work.

Lead global workplace technology strategy and operations, owning device lifecycle, Azure Virtual Desktop/Nerdio, M365 administration and Copilot adoption. Build a Digital Workspaces & Collaboration function, measure digital employee experience, partner on workspace security, and drive AI agent readiness across multi-geography teams.

Lead global delivery of workflow, automation, and internal software solutions across 3–5 internal and third-party squads. Drive planning, capacity balancing, CI/CD, testing, release readiness, and operational support. Standardize delivery practices, enforce platform and architecture standards on Azure, Power Platform, and Microsoft Fabric, manage vendor SOWs, track delivery metrics, and communicate risks and status to technical and business stakeholders.