Technical Director – Major Projects, Building Services

Overview

In this senior role you drive technical leadership and design excellence for major Building Engineering projects, overseeing delivery, budgets and client satisfaction. You will lead multidisciplinary teams and shape solutions across electrical, mechanical, fire/hydraulics and related disciplines. The position combines technical depth with business development and client engagement to win and deliver landmark projects. Join a culture that values innovation, collaboration and inclusion while expanding AECOM’s Building Engineering capabilities.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible work arrangements
• up to 6 weeks additional annual leave
• flex public holidays
• continuous learning and growth opportunities
• paid study leave (5 days)
• global career opportunities

Responsibilities

• Provide senior technical and design leadership across major Building Engineering projects with focus on quality, schedule, budget and client outcomes
• Lead project teams and ensure successful delivery of a portfolio of projects
• Engage directly with clients to understand needs and offer practical engineering and design solutions
• Lead design management, technical reviews and cross-disciplinary project delivery
• Support business development through client engagement, proposals, tender interviews and presentations
• Identify opportunities to grow services with existing and new clients across locations
• Provide commercial oversight including budgets, pricing, contracts and project financial performance
• Build and develop high-performing teams and support technical development and career progression
• Collaborate with senior leaders to support resource planning and growth of Building Engineering capability
• Represent AECOM with clients, industry partners and the engineering community

Key requirements

• Tertiary qualification in Mechanical, Electrical or Fire/Hydraulics Engineering (ideally with 20+ years in building services)
• Chartered Engineer and relevant registrations
• Extensive building engineering experience with complex multidisciplinary projects
• Experience in senior technical, project or business leadership
• Strong commercial understanding: budgets, programmes, contracts and financial performance
• Proven client engagement, commercial management and negotiations, and business development
• Experience leading and developing high-performing project teams
• Strong communication, stakeholder management and negotiation skills
• Established network within the Australian building engineering and property market (advantageous)

• communication
• stakeholder management
• negotiation
• building services design across Electrical, Mechanical, Fire/Hydraulics
• multidisciplinary project delivery
• design management and technical reviews

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