Transport Leader Vic

**Location**
- Docklands, Australia

**Country**
- Australia

**Contract type**
- Permanent

**Work pattern**
- Part Time, Full Time

**Market**
- Transport

**Discipline**
- Highways

**Job ref**
- 10722

**Recruiter contact**
- Rodger Zhao

**Brilliant people trusted to do brilliant things**

Mott MacDonald is a vibrant and forward-thinking engineering, management, and development consultancy. Working together as a global team we plan, design, deliver and maintain the transport, energy, water, buildings, and wider infrastructure that is integral to people’s daily lives. We value excellence in every dimension of our business and continuously seek opportunities to improve what we do and how we do it.

We employ brilliant people who combine their diverse skills and experiences to achieve brilliant things. Whether you want to specialise or broaden your experience, you'll be supported by global specialists eager to share their expertise. With numerous opportunities to learn and grow, the possibilities are as diverse as our people. Working as a connected global team, we deliver impactful projects that shape the future.

**Your Opportunity**

We are seeking a visionary and collaborative Transport Market Leader to shape the future of transport infrastructure in Victoria. This is more than a leadership role, it is an opportunity to inspire change, empower teams, and deliver projects that improve lives and communities. You will be joining a diverse and passionate team with a proven track record delivering major projects across Australia.

You will provide leadership and guidance to the Transport Team to ensure the effective delivery of transport related services across rail, roads & highways, systems engineering, tunnels and geotech, and transport planning projects.**Responsibilities include:

- Leading your team with enthusiasm, passion and vision, embodying our PRIDE values (Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive and Excellence) to achieve business goals aligned with the Australian unit strategy
- Enhancing your team’s capabilities with effective succession planning, focusing on skills, development, utilisation, reward, recognition and performance
- Championing a culture that values and respects the wellbeing, safety and health of every individual
- Leading the delivery of profitable, quality-controlled projects that meet client expectations
- Driving commercial success and timely project delivery, leading and delivering on significant projects
- Championing compliance with our systems, procedures and mandatory training
- Building and nurturing impactful client relationships, and mentoring your team to do the same, collaborating with Client Directors and national Market Leaders
- Leading the coordination of pursuits, winning work and enhancing market presence whilst advocating for all our capabilities across engineering, management and development
- Making informed bid/no-bid decisions and drive the commercial strategy, including utilising our Global Delivery Services team

**About You**
- We are looking for a leader with a collaborative and inclusive leadership style, who has a passion for mentoring, empowering others, and fostering team growth; motivating people to be curious; leading through uncertainty and doubt; creating new value propositions; and casting a compelling vision of the future which motivates and retains great people.
- Extensive experience in the Australian transport infrastructure sector, especially in the Victoria market such as Department of Transport and Planning (VIC), and associated entities or authorities
- Senior relationships across client, industry partner, and contractor organisations, with a well-established market reputation, influence, and network
- A proven track record in positioning, winning, and delivering major infrastructure projects across Roads & Highways, Rail & Metros, or associated transport sub-markets
- Tertiary qualifications in engineering, transport planning, or a related field
- Strong expertise in project management and business development, with a strategic mindset and commercial acumen; demonstrated commercial agility and ability to identify and mitigate risk
- Passionate to continuously build capability and innovation across multiple disciplines such as Rail, Highways, Transport Planning, Tunnels, and others in Transport

**Culture & Benefits**

Mott MacDonald celebrates diversity and inclusion, offering a supportive work environment that values work-life balance, diversity, inclusion, and equity. We welcome diverse applicants, including First Nations People, people with disabilities, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and people of all genders, neurodiversity, cultural backgrounds, age groups, and those with intersectional identities.

Our benefits package is designed to enhance your experience:

- Agile working environment, supporting our people to work flexibly
- Life, personal accident, and salary continuance insurance
- Employee resource groups including the