Discipline Manager

**Title**:
Discipline Manager - Buildings and Structures

**Creativity, collaboration, and excellence are at the heart of KBR’s vision. Does this resonate with you?**

We value an inclusive and diverse work environment and are working together to build a culture that embraces each other’s unique strengths and experiences.

Our people are important to us, and you will play a key role in contributing to the success of our business. We believe in empowering our employees, nurturing development within a culture of trust. We are looking for someone that is willing to step up and build upon opportunities. We will encourage and empower you to work in a way that suits your style and look forward to discussing the ways in which we can build success.

**The Opportunity**

Under broad direction, the Discipline Manager (DM) - Buildings and Structures, leads and manages a team of engineering professionals and para-professionals delivering services to multidisciplinary road, rail, mining, industrial, urban and other infrastructure projects for NSW and across KBR Australia’s operations. KBR are looking to fill this role with a Building Services professional. The DM plans, budgets, organises, and controls the New South Wales Buildings & Structures design team of approximately 15-20 people. Key functions include the pastoral care for the team, acting as a technical discipline specialist (in your relevant discipline), development or review of designs and planning, mentoring, and performing direct work in significant projects, and overseeing project execution.

The DM negotiates critical and controversial issues arising within the team, organisation or project with other mid-level managers and engineers, mostly within but on occasion outside KBR. The job role contributes directly to value creation through the performance of projects and the undertaking of business development in the relevant sector to service and source clients. A large part of the role is mentoring and direction of more junior engineers and advising senior management.

Commensurate with the seniority of the position, it includes establishment of good relationships with clients, pursuit of opportunities, development of proposals, preparation of budgets and plans, management of stakeholders and interaction with regulatory authorities.

You will also manage small to medium projects and proposals as a “seller/doer”. You may be asked to undertake other reasonable duties in line with the requirements of this role.

**Who are you?**

An exciting opportunity has opened for an experienced Discipline Manager to join the Building and Structures Team.

It is a fantastic time to join the KBR team as we continue to develop a strong pipeline of diverse, interesting future work for a range of clients and assist in delivery of impactful projects across the country.

The Key Technical and Management Skill for this role:

- Demonstrated practical record of managing teams of professionals
- Broad competence and experience in the practice of the discipline of building services engineering in a consulting and project environment.
- Ability to technically lead a multi-disciplinary project engineering team to deliver major work packages for a large multi-disciplinary project according to scope, budget and schedule
- Ability to guide and coach more junior and mid-career engineers, designers and drafters in the preparation of models, designs, drawings and to undertake review of these drawings
- Competence in preparing and reviewing reports and technical specifications
- Ability to liaise with clients, statutory authorities and other consultants
- Willingness to provide technical assistance and guidance to designers and less experienced engineers.
- Proactively gathers lessons and opportunities for improvement that are integrated into client consultation and Discipline delivery
- Evidence of strong client relationships within the Sydney buildings market will be considered favourably

**What we do**

KBR’s Infrastructure Solutions Australia business offers a wide range of professional consulting services to private and public sector clients to deliver projects of any size in both urban and remote environments in transport, water, resources, energy, environment, buildings, defence infrastructure and program management consultancy. Our workforce of over 1000 is technically and geographically diversified to match the characteristics of our principal markets and has the capability to service our clients’ requirements through all phases of project development and implementation.

**At KBR, we value you - here’s how’**

While our people are busy delivering leading science, technology and engineering solutions, we’re committed to providing them with a supportive, trusting environment and benefits that enable them to thrive and continue doing what they do best.

We can offer you flexible and family friendly working arrangements including flexibility with hours as well as yo