Principal Consultant

**Description**:
BMT is a leading global consultancy in **design, engineering, science, and risk management** in the maritime sector, known for excellence and innovation.

With **1,300+ experts across the UK, Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Americas**, we help clients make informed decisions by delivering practical solutions, with the environment and sustainability at their core. As an **employee-owned company**, we reinvest profits into technology, strategic growth, and profit sharing, driving a safer, more efficient future.

The Principal Consultant and WA Coastal and Maritime Team Leader is responsible for managing a technical team of Coastal and Maritime engineers and professionals within the Perth office. The Team Leader ensures effective utilization, resource planning, and staff development of the team. This role includes line management duties, workforce planning, and promoting a high-performance, inclusive, and sustainable work environment. The Team Lead will also contribute to work-winning and fee-earning work in their technical area as a Principal level Consultant, while supporting strategic resource planning with Program and Capability Managers.

**Key Responsibilities**:
In this role you will:

- Lead with a focus on a positive, high-performing and inclusive team culture.
- Align with Program Managers to ensure team focus on work-winning and project delivery.
- Coordinate team meetings and ensure effective communication and information sharing.
- Support collaboration across teams and disciplines, both locally and nationally.
- Monitor and improve team and individual utilisation and billability.
- Forecast resource needs and assist with workforce planning and recruitment.
- Line manage team members, including performance reviews, career development, and wellbeing.
- Support implementation of BMT's DE&I and Sustainability strategies.
- Liaise with Capability Managers, Program Managers, Project Managers, HR, and Talent Acquisition to ensure resource alignment.
- Undertake fee-earning technical work in line with team capacity and individual expertise.

**About you**:
To be successful in this role, you should have:

- Proven leadership skills and experience managing a technical team.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills across multidisciplinary and geographically dispersed teams.
- Strong understanding of business operations within a consultancy including work-winning and project delivery.
- Experience in resource planning, forecasting, and improving utilisation.
- Commitment to professional development and mentoring others.
- Alignment with BMT's values and strategies, including diversity, equity & inclusion, and sustainability.
- Willingness to undertake occasional travel and work flexibly, including remote or hybrid arrangements.
- A professional background in Coastal Modelling, Dredging or Maritime Structures Engineering with a formal qualification (bachelor's or higher) in the relevant field.
- Demonstrated technical expertise in a consulting environment
- Higher level qualifications or certifications in project management, business or leadership including but not limited to an MBA, AICD, PMBOK, or PMP.

The role works with other teams across APAC and a registration of RPEQ or RPEV would be helpful in the role, but is not mandatory.

**Why Work with Us?**:
At BMT, we value flexibility, career growth, and an inclusive culture where diverse perspectives thrive.
- We offer **remote, hybrid, and part-time work options**, with offices across Australia. We're proudly 'flexified' with Flexa
- Our industry **competitive benefits** include a competitive salary offering, performance bonuses, and companywide bonuses as part of being an employee benefits trust
- **Defence Reserve Leave** enabling defence reservist employees to undertake ADF obligations without financial disadvantage.
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- We invest in **learning and development** to help you grow.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are at our core. We foster a workplace where everyone feels valued and supported, promoting innovation, collaboration, and respect.

Our values—**Trust, Innovation, Passion, Respect, and Collaboration**—define who we are and how we work.**About BMT**:
BMT is a maritime-orientated high-end design house and technical consulting firm driven by a passion for solving complex, real-world problems

Our core business comprises distinctive and sustainable capabilities, which we leverage to address the needs of our customers and markets and are the primary focus of future capability development.

We exist to navigate the most important and impactful engineering challenges of our time. We create environments where people with outstanding technical knowledge deliver meaningful, practical solutions. We are driven by a commitment to a safer, more efficient, effective and sustainable future.