Principal Consultant - Team Lead

Bmt Defence Services LTD; Perth; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consultancy seeks a Principal Consultant to manage a dynamic coastal and maritime engineering team in Perth. This role emphasizes leadership, resource planning, and the delivery of consultancy services while fostering an inclusive and high-performing work culture. Flexible working arrangements, competitive salary, and a commitment to professional development are offered.

Benefits

Remote, hybrid, and part-time work options

Competitive salary offering and performance bonuses

Defence Reserve Leave for defence reservist employees

24/7 Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Investment in learning and development

Qualifications

• Experience managing a technical team in a consultancy setting.
• Proven track record in resource planning and improving utilization.
• Technical background in Coastal Modelling or related fields.

Responsibilities

• Lead a technical team and ensure effective work-winning strategies.
• Manage team performance, development, and wellbeing.
• Coordinate communication within multidisciplinary teams.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Resource Planning

Project Delivery

Team Management

Technical Expertise

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Coastal Modelling, Dredging or Maritime Structures Engineering

Higher level qualifications in project management (e.g., MBA, PMP)

Job description

BMT is a leading global consultancy in design, engineering, science, and risk management in the maritime sector, known for excellence and innovation.

With 1,300+ experts across the UK, Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Americas, we help clients make informed decisions by delivering practical solutions, with the environment and sustainability at their core. As an employee-owned company, we reinvest profits into technology, strategic growth, and profit sharing, driving a safer, more efficient future.

The Principal Consultant and WA Coastal and Maritime Team Leader is responsible for managing a technical team of Coastal and Maritime engineers and professionals within the Perth office. The Team Leader ensures effective utilization, resource planning, and staff development of the team. This role includes line management duties, workforce planning, and promoting a high-performance, inclusive, and sustainable work environment. The Team Lead will also contribute to work-winning and fee-earning work in their technical area as a Principal level Consultant, while supporting strategic resource planning with Program and Capability Managers.

Key Responsibilities

In this role you will:

• Lead with a focus on a positive, high-performing and inclusive team culture.
• Align with Program Managers to ensure team focus on work-winning and project delivery.
• Coordinate team meetings and ensure effective communication and information sharing.
• Support collaboration across teams and disciplines, both locally and nationally.
• Monitor and improve team and individual utilisation and billability.
• Forecast resource needs and assist with workforce planning and recruitment.
• Line manage team members, including performance reviews, career development, and wellbeing.
• Support implementation of BMT’s DE&I and Sustainability strategies.
• Liaise with Capability Managers, Program Managers, Project Managers, HR, and Talent Acquisition to ensure resource alignment.
• Undertake fee-earning technical work in line with team capacity and individual expertise.

About you

To be successful in this role, you should have:

• Proven leadership skills and experience managing a technical team.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills across multidisciplinary and geographically dispersed teams.
• Strong understanding of business operations within a consultancy including work-winning and project delivery.
• Experience in resource planning, forecasting, and improving utilisation.
• Commitment to professional development and mentoring others.
• Alignment with BMT’s values and strategies, including diversity, equity & inclusion, and sustainability.
• Willingness to undertake occasional travel and work flexibly, including remote or hybrid arrangements.
• A professional background in Coastal Modelling, Dredging or Maritime Structures Engineering with a formal qualification (bachelor’s or higher) in the relevant field.
• Demonstrated technical expertise in a consulting environment
• Higher level qualifications or certifications in project management, business or leadership including but not limited to an MBA, AICD, PMBOK, or PMP.

The role works with other teams across APAC and a registration of RPEQ or RPEV would be helpful in the role, but is not mandatory.

Why Work with Us?

At BMT, we value flexibility, career growth, and an inclusive culture where diverse perspectives thrive.

• We offer remote, hybrid, and part-time work options, with offices across Australia. We’re proudly ‘flexified’ with Flexa!
• Our industry competitive benefits include a competitive salary offering, performance bonuses, and companywide bonuses as part of being an employee benefits trust
• Defence Reserve Leave enabling defence reservist employees to undertake ADF obligations without financial disadvantage.
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• We invest in learning and development to help you grow.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are at our core. We foster a workplace where everyone feels valued and supported, promoting innovation, collaboration, and respect.

Our values—Trust, Innovation, Passion, Respect, and Collaboration—define who we are and how we work.

Notice to Recruitment Agency & Related Services - Please note BMT receive job applications exclusively via our ATS system only. BMT do not warrant or agree to any unsolicited CVs submitted via any contact method including physical hard copies left with any employee at BMT or within our operational teams. We will not progress CVs shared on a speculative basis by email, and you accept our right to pursue such candidates with no obligation to third-party terms and conditions or liability to a fee.

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