Engineering Design Transformation Lead

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

Job summary

Qualifications

• Australian Citizenship
• Engineering degree and chartered status
• Significant senior leadership experience in engineering services, engineering design, infrastructure, asset-intensive industries, or technical organisations
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale organisational transformation programs
• Experience developing engineering operating models, governance frameworks, and assurance systems
• Strong people leadership experience, including capability development and organisational design
• Experience working within large, multidisciplinary, matrix organisations
• Highly developed stakeholder engagement, influencing, and communication skills
• Strong commercial, financial, and strategic planning capability

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of a new enterprise-wide Engineering Design Practice.
• Develop and execute a multi-year transformation roadmap.
• Establish a future-state operating model that supports organisational growth and complexity.
• Drive cultural change and foster a high-performance engineering environment.
• Provide strategic advice to executive leaders on engineering capability, investment, governance, and organisational effectiveness.
• Develop engineering governance frameworks that support technical integrity and compliance.
• Establish engineering standards, policies, procedures, and assurance processes.
• Implement robust design review and technical approval processes.
• Ensure consistency in engineering practices across multiple disciplines and projects.
• Strengthen risk management, safety, quality, and regulatory compliance outcomes.
• Develop workforce planning strategies to ensure sustainable engineering capability.
• Build competency frameworks, career pathways, and succession planning initiatives.
• Identify future capability requirements and lead talent development programs.
• Create a culture of mentoring, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
• Support the attraction and retention of high-performing engineering professionals.
• Optimise engineering service delivery models and resource allocation.
• Improve collaboration between engineering, operations, maintenance, and project teams.
• Enhance engineering systems, tools, processes, and performance measurement.
• Support major infrastructure and capital project delivery through technical oversight and assurance.
• Drive standardisation and efficiency improvements across engineering functions.
• Establish trusted relationships with senior executives and business leaders.
• Influence strategic decision-making through technical expertise and commercial insight.
• Collaborate effectively within a complex matrix environment.
• Represent the engineering function with internal and external stakeholders.
• Build alignment across diverse teams with competing priorities and objectives.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Transformation programs

Engineering governance

People leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Engineering degree

Chartered engineer

Job description