Strategic Engineering Leadership Opportunity in Infrastructure

2 days ago


Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Zinfra Group Full time

**About Zinfra Group**

Zinfra Group is a leading infrastructure services provider dedicated to delivering exceptional solutions in the energy, utilities, and infrastructure sectors.

We pride ourselves on our innovative approach, technical expertise, and commitment to safety, quality, sustainability, and client satisfaction.

About the Role:

As the National Engineering Manager, you will lead Zinfra's engineering and design management team with vision, collaboration, and a high-performance culture that drives exceptional outcomes.

This role is pivotal in implementing Zinfra's engineering strategy, ensuring alignment with project goals, and delivering innovative, sustainable solutions.

You will inspire and support your team, championing growth and development while building strong, respectful relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Your commitment to safety, quality, problem-solving will help deliver projects that exceed client expectations.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Identify and implement quantifiable engineering and design efficiency improvements annually.
  • Participate in strategic planning, setting operational KPIs to achieve strategic targets.
  • Lead and develop the Engineering and Design team to enhance individual and team performance, ensuring engagement, talent attraction, and retention.
  • Champion leadership development, serving as a role model and mentor.
  • Manage team performance, motivating through effective goal-setting, accountability targets, and KPIs.
  • Represent the organization in negotiations, engaging with stakeholders like regulators, suppliers, customers, industry associations, and government representatives.
  • E nsure projects meet Australian standards, legislative requirements, Zinfra's technical standards, specifications, and guidelines.
  • Drive a commercial contracting culture within the Engineering and Design management team, responding to customers' identified needs.
  • Deliver agreed EBIT targets, commercial KPIs at divisional and project-specific levels.
  • Develop engineering functions to support Zinfra's growth and client requirements.
  • Plan for and anticipate change internally and externally to keep Zinfra at the forefront of providing Engineering and Design management services.
  • Drive a safety culture, implementing safety processes and systems for safe delivery and performance improvement.

About You:

You are a compassionate and strategic leader who thrives on empowering teams, delivering impactful results.

With a passion for safety, quality, sustainability, you excel in fostering collaboration, building enduring client relationships, driving innovation in Engineering & Design management.

Your proactive approach inspires trust, high performance.

Requirements:

  • Proven experience in setting and executing Engineering & Design management strategies.
  • Strong leadership in contracting businesses in infrastructure, utilities, or energy sectors.
  • Expertise in resource forecasting, staff development, managing Transmission Engineering & Design functions.
  • High-level business acumen, committing to delivering quality systems and outcomes.
  • Exceptional interpersonal skills for nurturing team growth, respectful client relationships.

Zinfra Group champions equal opportunity employment, committed to targets for gender equity, first nations representation in our workforce.

We promote an inclusive culture within our organisation, communities we interact with.

We welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds, including First Nations Peoples, people with differing abilities, LGBTIQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, intersectional, multiple diverse characteristics.

Our people are our energy source; we offer meaningful benefits, rewards that work for you.

We offer potential long-term career growth as part of our talent development, succession planning process.

Recruitment Process:

During our recruitment process, you will undergo pre-employment checks including pre-employment medical, reference checks, national police check.



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