Team Leader – Primary Engineering
Beca’s Power business operates as a truly combined Asia Pacific business, with teams based in Australia, New Zealand, Thailand and Indonesia. Working collaboratively, our teams are passionate about renewable energy and the delivery of critical energy projects working across the full project lifecycle from scoping, detailed design through to procurement and construction support. Together they deliver large, complex energy and renewable projects across Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution, and HV Power services to key utilities, energy developers, major contractors for the commercial, industrial and infrastructure sectors.
The Opportunity
We're looking for a Team Leader - Primary Engineering to lead and grow our Melbourne based team of talented engineers. This is a fantastic opportunity to combine people leadership with technical delivery, supporting a close-knit team of engineers working across transmission, distribution and substation projects throughout Australia and New Zealand.
This role would suit an experienced Primary Engineer with previous people leadership experience, or someone who is ready to take the next step as a Team Leader.
You'll play a key role in leading and developing an already strong and highly engaged team, fostering a positive, collaborative and high-performing culture while contributing your technical expertise to the delivery of complex power infrastructure projects.
You will:
Lead, mentor and coach the next generation of power engineers, helping them to undertake packages of work and supporting their career development
Foster a positive, connected and collaborative team culture where people feel engaged, supported and motivated to do their best work
Complete concept and detailed designs for High Voltage (HV) and Extra High Voltage (EHV) transmission and distribution projects using the latest in digital design technologies
Solve complex engineering challenges across site constraints, client requirements, equipment specifications, earthing, cabling and safety standards
Build strong relationships with clients, project teams and stakeholders across the business
Support work winning, resource planning and the ongoing growth, career development and success of the primary engineering team
Our design and project roles are busy, with multiple work projects, differing client deadlines and changing timeframes. Your ability to work across multiple workstreams managing your time and deliverables will be important, as will being able to adapt to changing project deliverables and timeframes. Updating stakeholders early and often will be a key mantra that you work by, especially for those ‘hard conversations’ where project timelines are at risk of not being met.
You will be part of a team of Beca’s leading design experts working collaboratively to deliver best-in-class designs. Career development opportunities exist including moving across technical, design, technology, people, client or business leadership pathways.
About You
You're an experienced Primary Engineer who enjoys bringing people together, developing talent and building on the success of an already strong and highly engaged team. You lead by example, communicate openly and are passionate about helping others grow and succeed.
Previous people leadership experience would be highly regarded. However, we're equally interested in individuals who demonstrate strong leadership potential, a positive attitude and a genuine desire to coach, support and develop others.
You bring:
Experience delivering HV/EHV primary substation designs with strong technical knowledge of substation layouts, equipment selection, HV cable design and Australian and/or New Zealand design standards
Experience with, or exposure to, software platforms such as CYMCAP, CDEGs, Autodesk SBS, Inventor, Navisworks, AutoCAD and/or MicroStation would be advantageous.
Strong relationship-building and collaboration skills across functions and disciplines
A people-first approach with a passion for coaching, mentoring and developing others
The ability to balance technical delivery, stakeholder engagement and team leadership
You'll be a valued team member with opportunities to grow your career and contribute to the Power team's success. Our colleagues come from diverse backgrounds, including client, consultancy, design-build contractors, and industrial businesses. We invite applications from a broad range of backgrounds.
Who is Beca?
Beca is one of the Asia-Pacific region's largest employee-owned professional services consultancies. Our team of over 4,000 professionals is diverse enough to bring a wide range of perspectives and expertise to every client and challenge, creating resourceful, smart solutions from our collective experience and insights.
‘Creative people together transforming our world’ is our vision. It reflects our culture, our aspirations and our purpose – to make everyday better. Our four values – partnership, tenacity, enjoyment and care – sit at the heart of everything we do, reflecting how we work every day with each other and our clients.
At Beca we make everyday better for our clients, our people and our community and your involvement makes it possible. Our size and agility mean you’re not just on the fringes; you’re making a visible difference, partnering to develop and deliver solutions from the ground up.
As a people-focused business, we understand that work-life balance means a lot of different things to different people and that it’s not always easy juggling work with everything else life throws at us. This is why we are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for all opportunities in the Beca team.
Ready to make the move? / Apply now
If you want to make every day better, apply online today!
If you have any questions, you can find out more about our people and projects by visiting https://www.beca.com/ignite-your-thinking/in-focus/energy
