Electrical & Automation Manager

Permanent management opportunity based in Brisbane CBD
- Supportive team, flexible work environment with competitive salary package
- Growing ASX listed business with exciting opportunities

**About Verbrec**

With over 500 dedicated team members operating out of locations across Australia and New Zealand, Verbrec is a leading mid-tier ASX listed company (ASX: VBC) providing exceptional engineering, operations and training services across the entire asset lifecycle, with a significant focus on growth into new and existing industries.

We provide services to our clients across Australia, New Zealand, PNG and the Pacific, across the energy, infrastructure and mining sectors, to empower them to improve efficiency and capability. We take pride in our focus on safety, while driving a strong people-focused culture to make transformations toward a sustainable and smart future.

**About the role**

With projects and clients growing, we are looking for a customer and delivery focused Electrical and Automation Discipline Manager who is proactive in the delivery for clients and leading a team to ensure projects are successful and our team culture continues to be fun and open. The E&A Manager will be part of the East Business Unit leadership team and we are after a people-focused professional that can provide technical direction, leadership and guidance to our high performing team of Electrical, Instrumentation and Control System Engineers. You will be exposed to variety of clients working on oil, gas, utilities, manufacturing, petrochemical, renewables and other local industry projects.

In this role, you will:

- Oversee the electrical, instrumentation and Automation projects through various engineering phases from concept/select, FEED through to detailed design and delivery.
- Provide technical guidance and leadership to develop junior engineers.
- Provide a quality assurance voice for your fellow team members.
- Develop existing and new relationships to promote the Electrical and Automation offering to uncover new opportunities and maintain the relationship with our existing clients.
- Prepare proposals (hours estimation and scope definition) for new and ongoing works.
- Provide overall progress reports and other reports related to schedule and cost as required by the Project Manager and our clients.

**About you**

You will be a highly experienced Lead Engineer or Electrical Engineering Manager ready to step up into a Team Manager role. Ideally, you will have experience in oil & gas, although experience in manufacturing, dairy, infrastructure or heavy industry is also valued. The role offers an opportunity to be part of a collaborative multidisciplinary team, working with a diverse range of clients on brownfield projects and new builds.

To be successful in this role, you will ideally have:

- Tertiary qualification in Electrical Engineering (or other relevant discipline)
- RPEQ certification
- excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
- previous experience managing a high performing engineering team
- well-developed commercial and risk management skills
- a thorough understanding of project management practices
- a passion for fostering a positive and engaging team culture
- a history of building long lasting relationships based on trust and mutual respect
- a passion for mentoring and developing team members

**The new Verbrec brand** represents our evolution and continued growth by leveraging emerging techniques and technologies for the benefit of our clients. **Evolution, engineered.**

**Our Vision** - Meeting the future by engineering transformative solutions through full project and asset lifecycles.

**Our Promise to You** - We believe in passionate and innovative people delivering our success. We take pride in seeing our people continually develop their career opportunities and access wonderful employee benefits. We offer our people engaging and challenging work, the opportunity for personal success and, a fun and friendly culture. We are an inclusive workplace and believe in diversity and opportunity for all.