Industrial Access Scaffold Team Leader - Engineering

Acrow; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Acrow in Australia is seeking an experienced Industrial Access Scaffold Team Leader to head the engineering design and certification of complex industrial access scaffolding projects.

You will lead a specialist engineering team while remaining hands-on, reviewing project requirements, performing structural analysis and certifying designs for challenging scaffold arrangements across major sites nationwide.

Qualifications

• CPEng status in Australia is essential.
• Degree in Civil or Structural Engineering required.
• Significant experience designing and certifying industrial access scaffoldings.
• Professional Autodesk REVIT experience required.
• Experience with SpaceGass, Microstran, RSTAB or Strand7.
• Strong knowledge of Australian structural design standards and scaffold codes.
• Ability to perform detailed structural calculations and verify designs.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers.
• Practical understanding of construction and scaffold erection.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering delivery of industrial access scaffold projects
• Mentor engineers and designers within the team
• Design, analyse, review and certify complex access scaffolding systems
• Undertake structural analysis and detailed calculations for conventional and bespoke scaffold arrangements
• Develop practical engineering solutions for complex site constraints
• Undertake and review FEA and frame analysis models
• Review Revit models, engineering drawings and design documentation
• Ensure designs comply with applicable Australian Standards, Codes of Practice and safety‑in‑design requirements
• Provide technical support to project, sales and site teams
• Liaise directly with clients regarding engineering requirements and technical solutions
• Resolve complex engineering and site issues
• Review and approve engineering documentation prior to issue
• Support the technical development and mentoring of engineers within the wider engineering team

Skills

CPEng status

Engineering leadership

Site construction knowledge

Education

Civil/Structural Engineering degree

Tools

Autodesk REVIT

SpaceGass

Microstran

RSTAB

Strand7

Job description

Industrial Access Scaffold Team Leader - Engineering

We are seeking an experienced Industrial Access Scaffold Team Leader to lead the engineering design and certification of complex industrial access scaffolding projects.

This is a senior technical and leadership role suited to a Chartered Structural Engineer with substantial hands‑on experience designing and certifying industrial access scaffolding systems.

You will lead a specialist engineering team while remaining actively involved in complex engineering work — reviewing project requirements, developing solutions, undertaking structural analysis, reviewing designs and providing engineering certification.

Our industrial access projects regularly involve challenging geometries, significant loads, unusual support conditions and bespoke scaffold arrangements. The role offers the opportunity to work on interesting, technically demanding projects across major industrial sites throughout Australia.

The Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced Industrial Access Scaffold Team Leader to lead the engineering design and certification of complex industrial access scaffolding projects.

This is a senior technical and leadership role suited to a Chartered Structural Engineer with substantial hands‑on experience designing and certifying industrial access scaffolding systems.

You will lead a specialist engineering team while remaining actively involved in complex engineering work — reviewing project requirements, developing solutions, undertaking structural analysis, reviewing designs and providing engineering certification.

Our industrial access projects regularly involve challenging geometries, significant loads, unusual support conditions and bespoke scaffold arrangements. The role offers the opportunity to work on interesting, technically demanding projects across major industrial sites throughout Australia.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead the engineering delivery of industrial access scaffold projects

• Manage, mentor and provide technical direction to engineers and designers within the team

• Design, analyse, review and certify complex access scaffolding systems

• Undertake structural analysis and detailed engineering calculations for conventional and bespoke scaffold arrangements

• Develop practical engineering solutions for complex site constraints and unusual access requirements

• Undertake and review FEA and frame analysis models

• Review Revit models, engineering drawings and design documentation

• Ensure designs comply with applicable Australian Standards, Codes of Practice and safety‑in‑design requirements

• Provide technical support to project, sales and site teams

• Liaise directly with clients regarding engineering requirements and technical solutions

• Resolve complex engineering and site issues

• Review and approve engineering documentation prior to issue

• Support the technical development and mentoring of engineers within the wider engineering team

About You

The successful candidate will have:

• Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) status – essential

• Degree in Civil or Structural Engineering

• Significant experience designing and certifying industrial access scaffolding systems – essential

• Strong structural engineering and temporary works design capability

• Professional Autodesk REVIT experience

• Strong experience using structural analysis / FEA software such as SpaceGass, Microstran, RSTAB or Strand7

• Strong understanding of Australian structural design standards and scaffolding codes of practice

• Demonstrated ability to undertake detailed structural calculations and independently verify complex designs

• Experience leading, mentoring or technically supervising engineers

• Strong practical understanding of construction and scaffold erection methodology

• Ability to develop practical solutions to unusual and technically challenging problems

Why Join Us?

This is an opportunity to take a leading technical role within a major Australian temporary works and access engineering business.

You will work on a broad range of interesting and challenging industrial access projects, with the opportunity to influence engineering solutions from initial concept through to final certification and site delivery.

The position combines technical engineering, project leadership and people leadership, while allowing you to remain closely involved in the complex engineering work.

We offer a competitive salary package based on experience, strong technical support and the opportunity to work with a large national engineering team.

Sydney is the preferred location, with the role also available from our Stapylton, Brisbane office.

If you are an experienced Chartered Structural Engineer with specialist industrial scaffold design experience and are ready to lead technically challenging projects and a high‑performing engineering team, we would like to hear from you.