General Manager - Electrical

Private Advertiser; Townsville City; On-site; AUD 160,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vehicle

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Voltec Services Pty Ltd, Townsville, is seeking a General Manager - Electrical to lead a full operations and field team with autonomy and strong owner backing. The role focuses on margins, client discussions, and overall performance across the business.

You will drive handover processes, resource planning, and job risk visibility while mentoring supervisors and technicians to lift capability and safety culture. Strong leadership and technical acumen are essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum electrical qualification and licensing.
• Experience leading trades/operational teams.
• Hands-on electrical experience in the trade.
• SimPRO proficiency from day one.
• Full working rights in Australia.

Responsibilities

• Lead client and technical conversations during site visits and tenders, protecting margins and cash flow.
• Own handover processes, resource planning, materials readiness, scheduling, and risk visibility.
• Develop supervisors and technicians to share expertise across the business.
• Set direction, coach performance, and drive a constructive safety culture.
• Build client relationships and resolve variations and disputes with clear documentation.
• Uphold regulatory and company standards with risk assessments and site checks.
• Track utilisation, margin, quote conversion, and overall operating performance.
• Refine workflows and reporting using Simpro and other approved systems.
• Support marketing input for campaigns and adhere to marketing-spend guidelines.
• Lead a team of ~20 staff and report to the business owner.

Skills

Strong communicator

Decision making

Commercial mindset

People leadership

Electrical trade experience

SimPRO proficiency

Licensed electrician

English proficiency

Australian work rights

Education

Electrical qualification and licensing

Tools

SimPRO

Job description

Voltec Services Pty Ltd is seeking a General Manager - Electrical to join their team!

Running a successful electrical business means balancing growth, margins, people, clients, and quality all at once. This role offers the chance to lead a full operations and field team with genuine autonomy, strong support from the business owner, and the commercial backing needed to focus on leading the business as a whole. It's an opportunity to build something meaningful, grow a respected electrical services business, and be recognised for the results delivered.

About Voltec Services

Voltec Services is an electrical and technology services business, delivering safe, profitable, and high-quality work across construction and service sectors.

What you'll be doing?

• Leading client and technical conversations: Taking charge of major site visits and technical discussions with clients, reviewing estimates and tenders, and protecting margin, cash flow, and capacity by escalating anything outside agreed limits.


• Driving operational readiness: Owning handover processes, resource planning, materials readiness, scheduling decisions, and job-risk visibility to keep the business running smoothly day to day.


• Building team capability: Providing or coordinating technical guidance for office and field teams, with a focus on developing supervisors and technicians so expertise is shared across the business.


• Leading and developing the team: Setting direction, coaching performance, supporting team reviews, and fostering a constructive and safe culture, while recommending hiring and performance decisions for the director's approval.


• Strengthening client relationships: Building rapport during site visits and tenders, and taking ownership of client concerns, variations, and disputes through clear, documented resolution.


• Upholding standards: Maintaining regulatory and company standards, ensuring risk assessments, site checks, testing, and completion reviews are consistently completed and visible.


• Tracking performance: Using the company scorecard and job data to manage utilisation, margin, quote conversion, schedule risk, and overall operating performance.


• Improving systems and processes: Using Simpro and other approved systems consistently, refining workflows and reporting, and helping the team get the most out of these tools.


• Supporting marketing efforts: Coordinating the operational and sales input needed for marketing activities and applying Voltec's marketing-spend guidelines.


• Leading a sizeable team: Reporting directly to the business owner and overseeing a team of approximately 20 staff across the operation.

Who are Voltec looking for?

• Strong communicator: Bringing strong interpersonal and client-facing skills to build trust with clients, teams, and stakeholders.


• Confident decision-maker: Demonstrating natural decision-making ability and sound judgment, especially when working under pressure.


• Commercially minded: Having a demonstrated sales and commercial instinct that supports profitable, sustainable growth.


• Curious and resourceful: Approaching challenges with a learner mentality and a drive to seek out reliable information before making decisions.


• People leader: Showing the ability to lead teams, resolve conflict, and build genuine trust across the business.


• Experienced in trade leadership: Holding relevant operational leadership experience within electrical or trade services.


• Qualified and licensed: Holding the minimum required electrical qualification and licensing for the role.


• Technically grounded: Bringing a minimum level of hands‑on technical experience in the electrical trade.


• Systems savvy: Simpro proficiency from day one is required for this role.


• English proficiency: Strong English communication skills are needed to liaise confidently with clients, teams, and stakeholders across the business.


• Eligible to work in Australia: Full working rights in Australia are required for this role.

Why you should consider this opportunity?

Our client offers an attractive remuneration package and other benefits, such as:

• A competitive salary package of $160,000 to $190,000, with a vehicle or higher base-pay option available


• Potential for profit sharing and future equity, rewarding performance and long-term loyalty


• Four weeks of annual leave to support a healthy work-life balance


• Strong, genuine support from the business owner to help drive success in the role


• Happy to help with relocation if applying from outside Townsville