National Maritime Team Leader

**Title**:
National Maritime Team Leader

This is a fantastic opportunity for you to join one of the most talented and respected engineering teams in Australia, working within our Global Maritime Centre of Excellence in Australia.

The National Maritime Team Leader is responsible for managing and developing a diverse group of engineers and support staff who are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our clients whilst playing a key role in supporting the National Maritime Industry Lead in winning Maritime projects across all markets.

This role will see you delivering large scale multi discipline maritime facilities for a variety of industries including; Defence, general cargo facilities, oil & gas and emerging markets (i.e. Hydrogen terminals).

**KBR is very well positioned to support the Department of Defence to deliver on the nuclear submarine infrastructure pipeline as part of the Government’s recent announcements.**

**Key Responsibilities**
- Leads and manages the national Maritime team, including supervision, training coordination and well-being leadership of personnel
- Performs leadership roles including Engineering Manager, Proposal Leader, Project Manager, as well as hands on Designer and Checker roles for bids and projects as required
- Collaborates with Project Managers to ensure that availability and resourcing of staff aligns with forecasted sales and secured projects.
- Working with our clients in key market sectors such as Defence to fully understand their requirements so we are able to deliver the right solution.
- Work with other key team members and other stakeholders delivering bids and tender responses
- Studies, designs, documentation and reporting on maritime and coastal engineering projects
- Preparation of expressions of interest and bids relating to maritime and coastal engineering
- Project and or Engineering management to ensure the delivery of outputs to a high standard
- Timeliness and budgetary expectations (including preparation of reports, drawings and calculations as required)
- Liaison with clients, statutory authorities and other consultants
- Coordinating and managing job teams on projects relating to maritime infrastructure and mentoring junior team members

**Who are you?**

We are looking for a technical practitioner with a focus on delivery to join our high performing Engineering group. This is a great role with genuine opportunity for growth and we want to attract an individual to support us in delivering outcomes for our projects and our clients across all sectors in which we operate. We want someone who enjoys working with clients and mentoring people in their team.

**Skills & Qualifications**
- Experience in the design, evaluation and reporting on ports, harbours, coastal works and marine structures
- Professional experience in the assessment, analysis, design and remediation of maritime structures (wharves, jetties, port developments, marinas, seawalls, pontoons etc)
- Solid experience working with the Defence sector and a deep understanding of how the defence sector manages projects (preferred)
- Demonstrated skills in providing guidance and mentoring to junior staff to enhance their skills and capability
- Familiarity with maritime (Australian or other) design codes and guidelines in Australia and Asia
- Capability and experience in using structural/maritime analysis software (desirable skillset: SPACE GASS, Strand 7, OPTIMOOR)
- Degree qualifications in Civil or Structural Engineering
- RPEQ accreditation or similar Australian Professional Engineering Accreditation that will allow to obtain RPEQ accreditation in Queensland within agreed timeframe

**Benefits of KBR**

As a company KBR have undergone some seismic changes in the last few years and are a truly cohesive company delivering exceptional results. We are authentically people centric and we strike a great balance between offering a highly supportive team environment, whilst giving people the freedom to perform to the best of their ability.
- We offer flexible and family friendly working arrangements including flexibility with hours as well as your work location
- Ongoing professional development and promotion opportunities
- Paid professional membership fees
- 20 days of annual leave and up to 8 additional hours of accrued flexible leave every 4 weeks (33 days in total)
- Salary packaging and Novated leases
- Life/Health insurance discounts
- Employee stock purchase plans
- Paid parental leave
- Diversity and Inclusion support

**What we do**

KBR’s Infrastructure Solutions Australia business works with customers across the nation to deliver projects that create a better, more sustainable and technology-enabled future for all Australians. Through trusted partnerships with our customers, our best and brightest deliver innovative solutions across the transport, water and environment, buildings, defence infrastructure and program management and construction consultancy markets.

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