HSE Manager - Work Winning

Leighton Asia; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career mobility

ACS University access

Group culture

Accountable Leadership program

Top specialists

Job summary

CIMIC is seeking an experienced HSE Manager - Work Winning to join our Group HSEQ function across national offices in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide or Perth.

You will develop and govern high-quality HSE bid content for tender submissions, translating safety capability into client-focused content, and coordinating HSE support across multiple tenders with senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated HSE leadership in tendering or work-winning environments.
• Strong understanding of bid processes, safety systems and risk management.
• Proven ability to develop and review high-quality written content.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement with senior leaders.
• Structured, hands-on approach with ability to deliver under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Develop and continuously improve HSE bid content and materials for tender submissions.
• Translate HSE capabilities and performance insights into client-focused content.
• Lead and coordinate HSE support across multiple tenders within deadlines.
• Manage the HSE content library, governance and quality assurance.
• Coordinate workload of Senior HSE Advisor and advise on resourcing needs.

Skills

HSE leadership

Bid/tendering

Stakeholder engagement

Content development

Planning & prioritization

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent experience

Job description

The work you do here reaches further than your job description.

At CIMIC, we are the team behind the operating companies that deliver some of the most significant infrastructure projects across Australia and the Asia Pacific. We connect capability, expertise and services across the Group, helping CPB Contractors, UGL, Leighton Asia, Sedgman, Pacific Partnerships and EIC Activities focus on the work only they can do.

We are looking for a HSE Manager - Work Winning to join our Group HSEQ function in North Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide or Perth. This role is for someone who wants to apply deep expertise across multiple operating companies. Someone who wants to influence outcomes beyond a single project or business. And someone who wants to work with specialists across one of the world's leading construction and infrastructure groups.

What you will do

Reporting to the Manager, Work Winning, the HSE Manager - Work Winning is responsible for the development, governance and delivery of high-quality HSE content and insights to support tender and bid processes across CIMIC operating companies. You will translate management system capability, assurance outcomes and performance insights into clear, client-focused submissions that support successful work winning outcomes.

This is a hands-on role with broader accountability for coordinating priorities, supporting the Senior HSE Advisor and advising bid and Pre-Contracts teams on scope, resourcing and where specialist support may be required.

• Develop and continuously improve HSE bid content, supporting materials and the Group’s HSE value proposition for tender submissions.
• Translate HSE systems, assurance outcomes and performance insights into compelling, client-focused content.
• Lead and coordinate HSE support across multiple tenders, ensuring accurate, consistent and high-quality submissions within deadlines.
• Manage the HSE content library, case studies and governance, including version control and quality assurance.
• Coordinate the Senior HSE Advisor’s workload and advise bid and Pre-Contracts teams on priorities, resourcing and specialist support.

What you will bring

The HSE Manager - Work Winning leads HSE support for EOIs, tenders and proposals across CIMIC operating companies. Under guidance from the Manager – Work Winning, you’ll work with Pre-Contracts teams to shape the HSE strategy, develop compelling client-focused content and ensure submissions accurately reflect the Group’s safety capability and performance.

You’ll oversee HSE support across several opportunities, set priorities, coordinate resources and advise teams on the level of support required, as well as work with business units to provide best practice examples from projects to assist bid teams. This role suits an experienced HSE leader who combines strong project knowledge with commercial awareness, sound judgement and the ability to influence senior stakeholders

• Demonstrated experience in HSE, tendering or work winning environments, supported by a relevant degree or equivalent experience.
• Strong understanding of bid processes, commercial drivers, HSE systems and critical risk management.
• Proven ability to develop and review high-quality, technically robust written content.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, including with senior leaders.
• Strong planning, prioritisation and coordination skills, with a structured, hands‑on approach and the ability to deliver under pressure.

About CIMIC

CIMIC is the central enabling function for the CIMIC Group. Finance, People and Culture, Legal, HSEQ, IT, Strategy, Commercial and Risk, Corporate Affairs and Communications, and Audit professionals, working together so that the Group's operating companies can deliver some of the most significant projects and operations across Australia and the Asia Pacific.

We sit within one of the world's leading construction and infrastructure groups. ACS and HOCHTIEF. A network that spans major markets globally and is growing in the sectors that will define the next decade: AI and Digital Infrastructure, Defence and Security, Energy and Nuclear, and Critical Minerals.

One Group, One Team is how we work. Not duplicated functions, but shared capability and expertise applied consistently across the Group. Built on expertise. Delivered at scale.

What we offer

• Career mobility across operating companies, sectors and functions, with pathways to CPB Contractors, UGL, Leighton Asia, Sedgman, Pacific Partnerships and EIC Activities.
• Access to ACS University, providing leadership development, executive education and learning opportunities across the ACS global network.
• A culture built on the Group Principles: Integrity, Accountability, Innovation and Delivery, with Safety underpinning everything.
• The Accountable Leadership program, a Group-wide framework that creates shared language and shared standards for how we lead and perform.
• The opportunity to work with specialists at the top of their fields, on projects and operations that reach communities and industries across Australia and beyond.