Lead Solutions Engineer

Our Digital Buildings business creates integrated, multi-layered solutions that specialise in combining building services & intelligent automated systems. Our solutions enable owners, end users and custodians (such as; Commercial buildings, Hospitals and Data Centers), to intelligently monitor, meter and control the attributes of their assets in real time, reducing consumption and improving reliability and quality.

The primary of the LSE is to drive quality and consistency of technical engineered solutions for the region via creation and deployment of engineering standards and templates, as part of the Engineering Efficiency Programme (EEP) initiatives and across our existing and new customer's portfolios.

The LSE will be the customers trusted adviser related to all engineered solutions both from HVAC and an overall building perspective.

• The LSE will be required to have strong understanding of application knowledge specific to different segments and be an industry regarded thought leader.
• The LSE will be the technical owner and approver (Functional Descriptions, LAN schematics, points lists, schedules) of design from concept to fulfillment. They will need to understand industry best practices both from an HVAC and technology perspective.
• The LSE is expected to have strong presentation and communication skills and will be expected to deliver presentations and training, primarily to internal parties.
• The LSE is responsible for all communications to the region about the EEP and all initiatives undertaken and all feedback from operational staff to the EEP council.
• The LSE will always have customer satisfaction and engineering quality at front of mind and support all local resources during a project lifecycle from sales to delivery with approval signoffs of all engineering solutions both preliminary and detailed design. (For Construction Sign off)
• The LSE should periodically attend monthly project reviews to ensure EEP adherence.
• Frequently the role will undertake market research and reconnaissance to ensure solutions and tools remain relevant and competitive in an ever-changing market.
• The LSE will also be directly involved in delivery of projects.

The secondary role of the LSE is to provide the technical support and guidance for the region to all functions (Engineering/Service/Sales) for all EEP initiatives and any application knowledge.

To Perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

• Contributes to national LSE council
• Develop technical skill set with both operational and sales resources
• Develop state/region performance budgets and ensure their attainment
• Participate in Interview, hire, train, mentor evaluate of technical staff
• Support state/region in technical solutions on project tenders both in reviewing tender designs and engineering reviews.
• Other duties may be assigned.

We don't want to narrow the field; however, we do believe that the skills needed to be successful in this role include:

• Ideally several Years related work experience required in application knowledge
• Excellent influencing, negotiation and relationship building skills.
• Relevant experience in Systems and Service environment, sales exposure desired but not essential
• Engineering and Project Management Skills
• Proven track record in project engineering both with integrated systems and HVAC application knowledge.
• Experience in providing training with cert 3 preferred.
• Strong PC skills in Excel; Word & Office
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent Leadership Skills
• Sound Organisation and time management skills
• Excellent Customer service skills

The list is long but importantly we offer a competitive salary package, access to our employee share plan and salary continuance insurance. Beyond this we have a truly flexible work environment, pay equity, family leave policies and a global recognition program.

All applicants must have working rights in Australia at the time of application and will be required to provide documented evidence if selected for interview.

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