Director, Process Safety & Assurance

Aurecon Group; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

Aurecon Group is seeking a Director of Process Safety & Assurance in Brisbane to provide strategic leadership of the Process Safety Assurance offering. You will shape growth, build senior client relationships, and lead a nationally connected team to deliver high-hazard project outcomes.

As a senior advisor, you will guide complex engagements, connect safety and compliance challenges to expert solutions, and influence across sectors and geographies while strengthening Aurecon’s Asset Performance

Qualifications

• Proven leadership in consulting, engineering, or advisory environments.
• Demonstrated ability to build senior client relationships and win work.
• Strong understanding of safety, risk, assurance and compliance across asset lifecycles.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for Process Safety Assurance offerings.
• Build senior client relationships and identify new opportunities.
• Lead and develop a nationally connected team and mentor staff.
• Oversee complex engagements ensuring integrated capability delivery.
• Understand client challenges in safety, risk and compliance and connect to solutions.
• Lead winning proposals and client conversations across high-hazard environments.
• Collaborate to connect capability with opportunities across sectors and geographies.
• Strengthen Aurecon’s market presence within Asset Performance and Assurance.

Skills

Leadership

Relationship building

Commercial & consulting acumen

Stakeholder influence

Strategic direction

Team mentorship

Client engagement

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Education

Engineering/science/risk/safety degree

Job description

Director Process Safety & Assurance At Aurecon

At Aurecon, we are optimistic about the future. We are thinkers, solvers, and collaborators who work with our clients to deliver the infrastructure and assets that strengthen communities and create a sustainable future.

What you’ll do

• Provide strategic leadership and direction for our Process Safety Assurance offering, helping shape its continued growth
• Build trusted relationships with senior clients, using your networks and market knowledge to identify, shape and convert new opportunities
• Lead and grow a collaborative, nationally connected team, providing mentoring, direction and opportunities for people to develop
• Oversee complex client engagements and projects, ensuring the right capability is brought together to deliver strong client outcomes
• Work with clients to understand their safety, risk, assurance and compliance challenges and connect them with the right expertise and solutions
• Lead winning strategies, proposals and client conversations across high-hazard and complex operating environments
• Collaborate across Aurecon to connect our Process Safety Assurance capability with opportunities across sectors, geographies and disciplines
• Strengthen Aurecon’s presence in the market by building enduring relationships and contributing to the broader growth of our Asset Performance and Assurance business

What you’ll bring

• Significant leadership experience within consulting, engineering and/or advisory industry or directly within high-hazard industry
• A demonstrated ability to build senior client relationships, develop opportunities and win work, supported by a strong professional network
• A sound understanding of how high-hazard industries manage safety, risk, assurance and compliance, without necessarily being a specialist process safety practitioner
• An appreciation of safety across the whole asset lifecycle, from front end design to operations and decommissioning.
• Experience leading, mentoring and developing people, with the ability to bring teams together and create an environment where people can do their best work
• Strong commercial and consulting acumen, with experience shaping opportunities and delivering successful client outcomes
• The credibility and confidence to engage with senior clients, understand complex business challenges and provide strategic direction
• Experience overseeing complex projects or portfolios and coordinating multidisciplinary expertise
• Strong communication, influencing and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across a geographically dispersed team
• Experience across sectors such as oil and gas, power, resources, chemicals, petrochemicals, water, renewables, nuclear, infrastructure or other high-hazard environments would be highly regarded
• A relevant tertiary qualification in engineering, science, risk, safety or a related discipline

How we support your growth

We believe your career should be a rewarding adventure. You will tackle some of the world’s most complex infrastructure challenges, in an environment that supports your ambitions, where we hold ourselves, and each other, to the highest standards. Recognised by the AFR as a Best Place to Work in 2026, we embrace diverse perspectives, giving you the opportunity to make a real impact.

Who we are

We are an engineering consultancy with more than 6,000 people across Australia, New Zealand and Asia. We believe the world needs people who can engineer possibilities; people who can create infrastructure that makes life better for people and the planet. That is why we are here – to bring ideas to life, the Aurecon way.

We’ve re-imagined engineering. Aurecon is an engineering and infrastructure advisory company, but not as you know it! Think engineering. Think again. Find out more here.