Director – Gas Turbine Facility Development I Energy

AECOM; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

AECOM is seeking a Director – Gas Turbine Facility Development to lead the delivery and technical strategy for gas turbine projects across Australia and NZ. You will oversee front-end feasibility, concept design, and owners engineer activities while coordinating with clients, contractors, and OEMs to ensure delivery excellence throughout the project lifecycle.

You will guide multi-disciplinary teams across process, mechanical, electrical, and related engineering areas, balancing regulatory

Qualifications

• Experience leading gas turbine facility development programs.
• Delivery leadership across multi-discipline teams in energy projects.
• Strong front-end technical feasibility and concept design capabilities.
• Proven ability to manage Owners Engineer roles and procurement for gas turbine projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead Gas Generation project delivery across Australia, coordinating with clients and internal teams.
• Direct technical workstreams for gas turbine facility development across process, mechanical, electrical domains.
• Prepare functional and technical specifications and support procurement/evaluation of gas turbines and balance of plant equipment.
• Oversee project delivery from inception to commissioning within client budgets and schedules.
• Support business development through bid/proposal activities and client engagement.

Skills

Gas turbines

Project leadership

Front-end feasibility

Procurement support

Owners Engineer

Regulatory awareness

Job description

Director – Gas Turbine Facility Development I Energy

Newly created leadership role as Director – Gas Turbine Facility Development with AECOM’s Australian Generation & Storage energy team working with an established team of Industry leaders and with technical subject matter expertise across multiple disciplines in Australia, New Zealand (NZ) and globally.

This role provides a leadership opportunity working across this rapidly evolving market for thermal gas generation related projects, with a key focus on gas turbine facility development in the Australian energy supply chain. You will have leadership responsibilities for establishing the technical approach for projects, as well as delivering projects with clients focusing on delivery excellence across the entire project lifecycle. You will be leading AECOM’s technical approach providing front end technical feasibility and concept design, owners engineer support, across complex thermal and related energy generation projects with varied client, site, engineering and delivery requirements.

You will have scope to make a real difference with the changing generation requirements across the portfolio of energy generation assets. You will also have plenty of variety working across very different project types including greenfield and brownfield related thermal gas projects with clients located throughout Australia – all with unique and diverse generation approaches of varying scope and scale. Your ability to build positive working relationships as a trusted advisor with a broad range of stakeholders with clients and their technical teams, with contractors and site teams, as well as with OEMs will be important. You will also be balancing project delivery excellence, supporting the delivery of complex, innovative, and rapidly evolving technical requirements for gas generation related projects with an understanding of Australian construction regulation and requirements across States as they apply to the design stages and Owners Engineer role during construction. In addition, you will be leading across project stages from inception to concept and detailed design, procurement, construction and commissioning, bringing your experience of end-to-end project delivery in the energy generation sector.

You will have a broad scope to make a lasting difference across Australia‘s energy transition during a rapidly evolving energy landscape, as our clients look to explore and solve gas generation supply and demand challenges. The fast-paced and innovative nature of projects will suit an engineering and technical leader looking to grow client relationships and make a difference across the Australian generation sector technical, delivery and client-based role.

How you will make a difference

Lead Gas Generation project delivery and technical requirements across Australia, working closely with the Industry Directors to connect with clients and the market to originate project proposals acting as a trusted advisor.

Lead and manage the technical workstreams for Gas Turbine facility development working with client technical teams, as well as with AECOM engineering and design disciplines, applying your project experience across process, mechanical, electrical and related engineering domains.

Prepare functional and technical specifications for Gas Turbine facility projects and technical support for the procurement and evaluation of specific OEM gas Turbines and Balance of plant equipment.

Leading project delivery either in an Owners Engineer, Project or Design Management leadership capability, or liaising with AECOM’s project management teams, ensuring scope, timeframe and client budget requirements are met.

Support business development activities, including bid and proposal response processes, working across AECOM’s team of subject matter leaders across engineering disciplines.

This role has scope to be based in the main AECOM offices throughout Australia, ideally Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane. Some domestic travel is required depending on client, site, and project requirements.