Director – Project Manager, Gas Turbine Facility Development I Energy

Project Management and Delivery leadership opportunity as Director – Project Manager, Gas Turbine Facility Development with AECOM’s Australian Generation & Storage energy team. You will be joining an established team of Industry and Technical leaders in the rapidly evolving market for gas generation related projects, with a focus on gas turbine facility development to support diversification of generation across the Australian energy supply chain. 

You will have leadership responsibilities for project delivery excellence by establishing the project management, delivery and governance approach to enable the delivery of project scope, timeline and commercial requirements.  You will be part of the passionate team delivering complex, innovative, and rapidly evolving technical requirements for Gas Generation related projects.  Your knowledge, experience and understanding of Australian construction regulation and requirements across States will be important, especially in relation to how these apply to the design stages and Owners Engineer role during construction.

You will be working closely and in partnership with AECOM’s technical design and engineering teams ensuring technical excellence, along with project timeline, commercial and delivery milestones. In addition, you will be leading across project stages from inception to concept and detailed design, procurement, construction and commissioning, bringing your experience of end-to-end project delivery in the energy generation sector. 

You will have scope to make a real difference with the changing generation requirements across the portfolio of energy generation assets with plenty of variety working across very different project types including greenfield and brownfield related gas projects.  You will be working with clients located throughout Australia – all with unique and diverse generation approaches of varying scope and scale.  Your ability to build positive working relationships as a trusted advisor with a broad range of stakeholders with clients and their technical teams, with contractors and site teams, as well as with OEMs will be important.

You will have a broad scope to make a lasting difference across Australia ‘s energy transition during a rapidly evolving energy landscape, as our clients look to explore and solve gas generation supply and demand challenges.  The fast-paced and innovative nature of projects will suit a project manager or delivery leader looking to grow client relationships and make a difference across the Australian generation sector. 

How you will make a difference

• Lead project management, governance and risk management requirements across Gas Generation Facility development projects throughout Australia.
• Lead project delivery including in an Owners Engineer, Project or Design Management capacity, collaborating and liaising with AECOM’s project management teams, ensuring scope, timeframe and client budget requirements are met.
• Work in partnership with AECOM’s Generation & Storage Industry directors, technical and design leaders to connect with clients and the market to originate project proposals.
• Build client relationships as a trusted advisor, across senior leaders and client technical teams across project stages and milestones.
• Apply your commercial judgement to budget and project milestone decisions, considering what is best for project and a client’s scope.
• Support business development activities, including bid and proposal response processes, working across AECOM’s team of subject matter leaders across engineering disciplines.

This role has scope to be based in the main AECOM offices throughout Australia, ideally Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane.  Some domestic travel is required depending on client, site, and project requirements.