Senior Manager, Integration And Constructability

At Transgrid, we play a crucial role in delivering safe, reliable, and sustainable energy to millions of Australians.
Operating over 13,000 km of high-voltage transmission lines and 128 substations across NSW and the ACT, we connect electricity generators to the distribution network—powering homes, businesses, and communities.
As the energy sector evolves, we're growing our workforce to drive innovation and transformation.
The Opportunity We are seeking a highly experienced engineering leader to step into the newly created role of Senior Manager, Integration and Constructability.
This is a career defining opportunity to shape how Australia's critical transmission projects are designed and delivered.
You will lead a specialist team ensuring that designs are constructable, integrated, and future-ready from the earliest concept stage through to final commissioning.
By embedding constructability and integration principles into design, you'll play a pivotal role in reducing delivery risk, enhancing project outcomes, and enabling safe, efficient, and sustainable energy infrastructure for decades to come.
This is a high-impact role, working closely with the GM, senior leadership, and external delivery partners to influence strategy, set standards, and build capability in one of the most exciting phases of Transgrid's history.
A Day in the Life at Transgrid No two days look the same.
In this role you might: Lead constructability and integration reviews on multi-billion-dollar capital projects.
Partner with delivery, commissioning, and operations teams to ensure designs are field-ready.
Advise the GM and senior leadership on constructability risks, technical standards, and new innovations.
Represent Transgrid at industry forums and community workshops.
Mentor and develop a team of engineering specialists, driving a high-performance and collaborative culture.
Influence strategic investment decisions by providing technical and commercial insights.
Your work will be central to ensuring our projects are not only technically robust, but also deliverable in practice, safe for our people, and trusted by the communities we serve.
About You You are a senior engineering leader with deep expertise in high-voltage transmission infrastructure and a passion for design for delivery principles.
You bring: A degree in Electrical Engineering (or equivalent qualification/experience).
Extensive experience in high-voltage substation and transmission line design, delivery, and integration.
Proven success in constructability leadership, risk management, and technical governance across major capital projects.
Strong knowledge of national and international technical standards, with an eye for innovation and continuous improvement.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage communities, landholders, contractors, and industry partners.
A collaborative, high-integrity leadership style, with the ability to build, mentor, and inspire high-performing teams.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of engineering leadership, strategic influence, and project delivery excellence.
Leading at Transgrid Leadership at Transgrid is built on four principles: Courage, Clarity, Connection and Care.
As the Senior Manager, Integration and Constructability, you will be expected to live these principles every day: Courage: You'll challenge conventional thinking to embed constructability and innovation into our designs, take ownership of outcomes, and guide your team to confidently make decisions that balance safety, cost, and delivery.
Clarity: You'll create shared understanding by setting clear priorities, accountabilities, and performance goals, ensuring your team and stakeholders know exactly how their work contributes to delivering Australia's energy future.
Connection: You'll strengthen relationships with delivery partners, landholders, communities, and internal teams, connecting technical solutions to our broader organisational purpose and customer needs.
Care: You'll lead with empathy, prioritising the safety, wellbeing, and development of your people, while ensuring our projects respect communities and the environment.
By leading with these principles, you'll not only deliver outstanding project outcomes, but you'll also shape the culture of collaboration, trust, and innovation that drives us forward.
Benefits & Perks At Transgrid, we empower our people with a well-rounded benefits package designed to support their personal, professional, and social well-being, helping them deliver their best work every day.
Employees have access to a range of corporate discounts across retail, utilities, travel, health & wellbeing etc, as well as novated leasing options, workplace flexibility, 20 weeks paid parental leave and more.
Regardless of where you are in your professional journey, Transgrid powers your career by providing access to regular and on-going training, workplace mentoring and tertiary education.
Here you are encouraged to build a career that is right for you.
Join us and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Australia's energy system | Applications close on the 18th of September 2025 – apply today, as applications will be assessed on a rolling basis and this opportunity may close early.