Bid Manager

About the Role

As Bid Manager for Victoria and Tasmania, you'll be at the heart of McConnell Dowell's success, leading multi-disciplinary bid teams through complex, high-value tenders that shape Australia's infrastructure landscape.

This is a hands-on, strategic role where you'll influence outcomes from concept to submission, ensuring our bids are not just compliant, but compelling. You'll work closely with Pre-Contracts, Engineering, and Commercial leaders to position McConnell Dowell as the partner of choice across transport, water, energy, and resources sectors.

Why You'll Love It Here

• Impactful Work: Your bids will shape infrastructure that connects and sustains communities.
• Tier 1 Exposure: Collaborate across disciplines and business units on complex, nationally significant projects.
• A Place to Thrive: Our Richmond offices are bright, modern spaces designed for focus, wellness, and creativity.
• Supportive Culture: Low ego, high support. You'll be empowered to lead, innovate, and grow.
• Growth Pathways: With exposure across regions and sectors, this role can be your platform to senior pre-contracts or strategic leadership.

What You'll Do

• Lead, coordinate and deliver competitive, high-quality bids that reflect our creative construction approach
• Engage key technical, engineering and commercial stakeholders to craft winning strategies
• Challenge, influence and mentor a talented, collaborative bid team
• Maintain focus on quality, innovation, and storytelling that sets our submissions apart
• Build relationships internally and externally that strengthen our market position

About You

You're a confident, commercially astute bid leader who thrives under pressure and brings structure, energy, and clarity to the tender process. You likely have:

• A degree in Engineering, Construction, Business, or related field
• Proven experience managing bids for large-scale infrastructure or construction projects
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Strong written communication and eye for quality, detail, and presentation

About Us

McConnell Dowell – Creative Construction

Our purpose is Providing a Better Life. We do that through delivering projects that connect, support and sustain communities, and through providing career opportunities that challenge, reward and grow our people. 

From remote major resources and energy projects to city-shaping transport and water infrastructure, we have constructed thousands of high-quality, complex projects for our customers and communities over more than 60 years, in Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands and Southeast Asia.

Why join us?

The work you'll do will have a tangible positive impact on people's lives, including yours. The diversity of our projects, roles and locations means greater development opportunities. We invest in our people to set and reach personal and professional goals and we have some of the best mentoring minds in the business to help you do that.  Because when you grow, we all grow.

McConnell Dowell actively seeks and celebrates diversity, inclusion, and individuality. In a culture low on ego and high on support, we encourage everyone to make an impact. We're big enough to take on community-shaping projects, but agile enough for you to have an influence on how we do things.

So, join us, be you, and help us create better together. Apply now

We are an equal opportunity employer. People of all ages, abilities, sexual orientation, gender identities & cultures including Aboriginal, and Torres Strait Islanders are strongly encouraged to apply.

Please note all successful applicants must hold valid work rights for Australia and pass a satisfactory pre-employment medical which includes drug and alcohol checks and COVID vaccination status.

This role is being sourced through McConnell Dowell directly and not accepting applications via external recruitment agencies.