Strategic Regional Director

We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic leader to spearhead our high-performing team in the Asia-Pacific region. As the Asia Pacific Leader, you will be responsible for growing and strengthening the team through strategic recruitment and continued development of our national practice.

Key responsibilities include inspiring and guiding regional team leaders and senior professionals, fostering collaboration and alignment across multiple states. You will also manage group financial performance, oversee the development of high-quality technical outputs, and develop relationships between internal and external clients.

This is a leadership role that requires deep technical knowledge and project management capability to deliver meaningful outcomes. Our ideal candidate has 10+ years of experience in tailings engineering, managing teams, and delivering large multidisciplinary projects.

As a key member of our global community of practice, you will work collaboratively with experts across Australia and internationally to solve complex challenges for leading mining companies. If you have strong leadership skills, can build and maintain ongoing client relationships, we encourage you to apply.

Responsibilities:

• Growing and strengthening the team through strategic recruitment and continued development of our national practice.
• Inspiring and guiding regional team leaders and senior professionals across multiple states, fostering collaboration and alignment.
• Managing group financial performance through resource management with the Engineering & Design group administration team, team leaders and other technical discipline managers within the Engineering & Design service line.
• Overseeing the development of high-quality technical outputs, ensuring reports and deliverables meet SLR's standards and client expectations, on time and within budgets.
• Developing, facilitating and enhancing relationships between our internal and external clients.
• Contributing to winning work by identifying and converting opportunities and drawing on your existing client relationships.
• Providing advice and assistance to internal and external clients, team members and Project Manager's on projects regarding best principles and practices.
• Leading and managing your own projects, applying your deep technical knowledge and project management capability to deliver meaningful outcomes.

Our ideal candidate will have:

• A minimum of 10 years of specialisation and demonstrated experience in tailings engineering in a consulting role, with tertiary qualifications in Geotechnical / Civil / Mining Engineering.
• Experience managing teams of consultants across different geographies and project experience across multiple states.
• Ability to plan and deliver geotechnical site investigations for tailings projects with demonstrated experience in the interpretation of field and laboratory testing of tailings, soils and rock, and slope stability assessments.
• In-depth understanding of local and global tailings standards and guidelines, e.g. ANCOLD, ICOLD, GISTM and CDA.
• Excellent communication skills and technical report writing.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring and developing junior staff.
• Demonstrated experience managing large multidisciplinary projects.
• Past contribution to the development of the regional business plan which includes assessing business risk, growth opportunities and resourcing requirements.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, self-motivated and ability to work effectively within a team.
• A strong track record in building, nurturing and maintaining ongoing client relationships.

At our company, our people come first. We're proud of our One Team culture - a culture that champions technical excellence, collaboration without borders, and the opportunity to work alongside great people and great clients. Whether you're enjoying our flexible hybrid work environment or collaborating with experts across Australia and internationally, our benefits aim to ensure that we cater for all.