Director, Process Safety & Assurance

Aurecon Group; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 260,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Aurecon is seeking a Director of Process Safety & Assurance to lead our national practice from Melbourne, Brisbane or Perth. You will shape strategy, build senior client relationships and guide a dispersed team across safety, risk and compliance challenges in high-hazard industries.

You will mentor professionals, drive growth, oversee complex engagements and translate client needs into integrated safety solutions. The role demands leadership, collaboration and a strong market network.

Qualifications

• Experience leading in consulting or advisory roles in high-hazard industries.
• Ability to win work and network with senior clients.
• Understanding safety, risk, assurance and compliance across asset lifecycle.
• Leadership and mentoring experience.
• Strong commercial and consulting acumen.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for Process Safety Assurance and growth.
• Build senior client relationships and identify opportunities.
• Lead a nationally connected team with mentoring.
• Oversee complex client engagements ensuring outcomes.
• Connect clients with safety, risk, assurance solutions.
• Lead proposals and client conversations across environments.
• Collaborate across Aurecon to align capabilities with opportunities.
• Strengthen market presence and growth of Asset Performance and Assurance.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Senior client relationships

Risk & safety knowledge

People development

Commercial acumen

Cross‑functional collaboration

High-hazard sector experience

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Director Process Safety & Assurance

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

As a Director in our Process Safety Assurance team, based in Brisbane, Melbourne or Perth, you’ll play a key role in shaping the growth and future direction of our national practice. Bringing together strategic leadership, client influence and an understanding of high-hazard industries, you’ll lead our people, grow our market presence and help clients navigate complex safety, risk and assurance challenges.

• 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.