General Manager

About You

As an experienced engineer and business development leader, you're passionate about people, and driving change. You combine strategic capability with hands-on leadership, and you're comfortable engaging with clients to drive business growth. This is your opportunity to lead and empower talented teams, shape our engineering future, and help us achieve our strategic ambitions.

About Us

Advitech is a leading Australian engineering, science and technology consultancy. For nearly 40 years, we've delivered smart solutions across diverse industries—earning a reputation for respect, integrity, and care for both our people and our clients. As the founding company of Emergent Group, we're part of a collaborative network of specialist technical service providers. This gives us a unique advantage: access to in-house expertise and multidisciplinary support. Unlike many consultants, we don't work in isolation—we share knowledge and resources to deliver smarter, more integrated solutions that make a real difference.

The Opportunity

As we continue to grow and evolve, we are seeking an outstanding leader to drive the performance and expansion of our Engineering Services division. Reporting to the CEO, the General Manager – Engineering Services will provide leadership across multiple engineering disciplines and play a central role in achieving Advitech's strategic growth goals. This is a key executive appointment for a commercially minded engineering leader who thrives on building strong client relationships, developing new business opportunities, and elevating technical excellence across teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic direction and leadership to all engineering disciplines.
• Drive business growth by proactively identifying and securing new work and client relationships.
• Lead operational and commercial performance, including revenue, margin, resourcing, and project delivery.
• Mentor and develop discipline leads and senior engineers, fostering a high-performance culture.
• Oversee governance, risk, quality, and compliance across engineering functions.
• Support business development, quality, performance and staff development strategies.
• Represent Advitech at industry forums, events, and strategic partnerships.

To be successful in this role, you will meet the following:

• Degree in engineering with extensive (10+ years) experience in consulting or complex technical environments.
• Proven capability in developing new business, building client relationships, and expanding market presence.
• Strong financial, operational, and project management acumen.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and leadership skills.
• Chartered or Registered Engineer status (highly regarded).
• Current unrestricted drivers licence (motor vehicle).

About the Position

Position Type: Permanent - Full Time

Reports To: CEO

Start Date: flexible

Location: Advitech office, located in the Emergent Group Headquarters, Newcastle.

Salary: base salary plus superannuation and generous income protection insurance, wellbeing vouchers, employee referral program bonus, overtime options, professional membership training, and more.

The wellbeing of our people is our highest priority. When you join us, you become part of Emergent Group Australia, which means you'll be surrounded by people who support you.

We've designed our benefits to support your wellbeing, lifestyle and career goals.

• Flexibility is built in. Whether it's flexible start/finish times, a 4-day week or one day from home, you'll be able to balance work to support your personal life.
• Wellbeing vouchers every year – for gym or swimming pool membership, fitness equipment or relaxation therapies to help you stay healthy and energised.
• 24/7 confidential Employee Assistance Program for you and your immediate family to help you maintain your emotional and psychological wellbeing.

Make a Real Impact

The world is facing complex challenges that demand smart, connected teams, working together to solve them. Collaboration, integrity, and purpose drive everything we do—because solving real-world problems starts with the right people.

Apply Now

If you have the legal right to live and work in Australia, and want to be part of our dynamic team, submit your resume and cover letter addressing how you meet the requirements for this role.

We are a Responsive Employer. We appreciate the time and effort it takes to prepare and submit your application, and in return we carefully consider and provide responses to each and every applicant. We don't just contact the short-listed candidates, or leave you wondering. If you are not suitable for this role, we will keep your details on file for future roles.

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