Transmission Technical Director

3 weeks ago


Sydney, New South Wales, Australia AtkinsRéalis Full time

Job Description

AtkinsRéalis is a world-leading design, engineering, and project management organisation. We connect people, data, and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems.

We are seeking a highly experienced Transmission Technical Director to play a key role in driving revenue generation, developing market strategy, and ensuring successful project delivery.

The successful candidate will take the lead on partnering strategies, collaborate closely with the practice supply chain, and work closely with AtkinsRéalis global market leads, especially those in Canada and the GTC.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Acting as the first point of contact in developing trusted, sustainable, and valued relationships with our T&D clients.
  • Driving best practice and a professional leading-edge approach to the application of Health and Safety and CDM in the T&D market.
  • Contributing to the overall market strategy and execution of the annual business plan.
  • Identifying and managing portfolio risks, and properly escalating and reporting to CEO any key decisions.
  • Overseeing the performance of Project Managers and Project Directors where applicable.
  • Delivery of market revenue, profit, and practice demand in line with or exceeding agreed budgets.
  • Ensuring an appropriate regime of project reviews within the market based on risk.
  • Overseeing business development and successful bidding to create a sustainable pipeline of work.
  • Leading and owning our market proposition and thought leadership, in conjunction with our Win Work teams.
  • Providing leadership, management, and engineering/technical guidance to the T&D team and its staff.
  • Ensuring Bid processes are executed according to the AtkinsRéalis processes, including Service Delivery Process and other governance.
  • Managing financial performance of projects in your portfolio, including P&L accountability.
  • Directing key staff recruitment, resourcing, and development initiatives.
  • Assessing the market and supporting innovation of services and technical approaches to build a robust and resilient market-facing organisation.

Desired Skills, Experience, and Capabilities

  • Excellent communication, collaboration, team-working, and influencing skills.
  • Experience of leading high-performing teams and ability to build trust, influence, and motivate others.
  • Highly experienced in financial and commercial management for large and complex portfolios of projects.
  • Experience of successful negotiation and dispute resolution.
  • Experience in developing and winning bids and their governance.
  • Contractual, commercial, and project delivery knowledge, including large, complex, and firm-price projects.
  • A well-rounded leadership and management background with demonstrable experience of project portfolio management.
  • Ability to lead and support a diverse group of bid and project delivery teams.
  • An eye for detail, numerically astute, and able to combine experience and instinct with logic and a grasp of the detail.
  • Tertiary qualifications or an equivalent and the relevant professional accreditations.

Additional Information

We are an Equal Opportunities Employer and welcome applications from all backgrounds, cultures, and abilities. We seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds, and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion, or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.

At AtkinsRéalis, we foster an open culture founded on our core values: Safety, Integrity, Innovation, Collaboration, and Excellence. We are committed to being sensitive to your unique needs and aspirations.

By championing inclusive, accessible, and sustainable design, you'll inspire positive change in the world around you. Together, we're shaping a better future—one where innovation and collaboration thrive.



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