Business Director

Business Director - Digital Transformation

Booming populations in our cities and growing investment in regional hubs are driving new thinking on ways to create more liveable, sustainable, and mobile cities and effective regional transport networks. Partnering with our clients and communities, we plan and design cities where mobility solutions contribute to successful placemaking – the creation of great places to live, work, visit and play.

Beca's AU Digital Engineering Advisory section delivers end-to-end advisory and delivery services to support Asia Pacific's largest infrastructure organisations in delivering innovative and modern infrastructure.

Our team is at the forefront of digitally transforming the infrastructure sector having delivered industry leading digital strategy, policy, and change management across the Asia Pacific

The Opportunity

We have established a dynamic team to meet the challenges to Beca's traditional engineering services and to support clients with their digital transformation journey. This role, reporting to the General Manager for Defence, Infrastructure Advisory (DIA), has been established to develop a client-facing team within the business, that is responsible for providing specialist subject matter advice to key growth markets for Beca.

The Digital Engineering Business Director drives the client facing roadmap, and market penetration strategies across the Australian Business. This is an impactful role, which requires a leader who can communicate clearly, lead and inspire others and translate technical client pain points to actionable service offerings.

You will also:-

• Grow the demand for Digital Engineering services with both established and new clients

• Help implement digitally-enabled ways of delivering engineering, construction, and maintenance activities;

• Help develop BIM and digital engineering practices, identifying new skill requirements and changes in capability, and sharing these practices with clients and delivery practitioners within Beca;
• communicating the value proposition to the organisation and embed changes in the way BIM and collaborative information management practices (per ISO are adopted across the project lifecycle;
• monitor technological innovations in industry ensuring Beca remains contemporary in its delivery practices (eg. encouraging the adoption of technological advances to support health and safety or site optimisation practices);

Working with the team, you will motivate to encourage innovative thinking, develop new ideas/approaches and promote the values of Beca.

About you

You'll have a relevant tertiary qualification and have Accreditation or similar proof of training with ISO A solid track record in developing and leading technically capable, diverse and high performing teams and driving a culture of problem-solving, collaboration and excellence and strong communication

This experience will preferably be in the engineering sector in Project Management, Design Management, Asset Management, Digital design processes, Geospatial or Surveying where you will have a strong grasp of the drivers for change in the construction and asset management sector

You will also have:

Experience in leadership positions with demonstrated capability gained in complex organisations (business or organisational leadership, people leadership)

Experience leading change and influencing a broad group of stakeholders to adopt new ways of working

BIM advisory roles and experience with legislative and industry standards

Preferably a background in engineering delivery roles (briefing, design, construction) with a strong and demonstrable business acumen

Sound understanding of the service lifecycle of assets, from the investment decision-process through to planning, delivery, handover and operations and maintenance

What We Offer:

A career with Beca will provide you with:

Flexibility & Wellbeing: We recognise that achieving a work-life balance is unique to everyone. Enjoy flexible working options to manage your personal and family priorities, along with dedicated leave for wellbeing and community engagement.

Belonging & Ownership: Join a diverse and inclusive team where collaboration and creativity thrive, and you can bring your whole self to work. You may also have the chance to take advantage of our unique shareholder opportunities, sharing in our collective success.

Parental Leave: Take time for what matters most with up to 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave, inclusive of all genders.

Career Growth & Development: Your growth is our priority Benefit from continuous learning and professional development through our company training programmes and support for professional accreditation, including pathways to Chartership with Engineers Australia. Work alongside industry leaders and gain hands-on experience to unlock your career potential.

Beca prides itself on supporting a diverse and inclusive culture – open to inputs from creative people of all genders, ethnicity, identity, thought and experiences.

Who is Beca?

Beca is one of the Asia-Pacific region's largest employee-owned professional services consultancies. Our team of over 4000 professionals is diverse enough to bring a wide range of perspectives and expertise to every client and challenge, creating resourceful, smart solutions from our collective experience and insights.

'Creative people together transforming our world' is our vision. It reflects our culture, our aspirations and our purpose – to make everyday better. Our four values – partnership, tenacity, enjoyment and care – sit at the heart of everything we do, reflecting how we work every day with each other and our clients.

At Beca we make everyday better for our clients, our people and our community and your involvement makes it possible. Our size and agility mean you're not just on the fringes; you're making a visible difference, partnering to develop and deliver solutions from the ground up.

As a people-focused business, we understand that work-life balance means a lot of different things to different people and that it's not always easy juggling work with everything else life throws at us. This is why we are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for all opportunities in the Beca team.

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