Senior Digital Engineering Manager

CPB Contractors; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing program

Discount portal

Salary continuance insurance

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

CPB Contractors, a leading Australian infrastructure contractor, seeks a senior Digital Engineering professional to provide strategic oversight across projects, tenders and the VIC/TAS Business Unit. Reporting to the VIC Engineering Director, you will guide Digital Engineering resources and maintain a client-facing leadership role across multiple pursuits.

We welcome candidates from contractor, engineering consultancy, client-side or government backgrounds with 12–15 years of relevant experience

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience delivering Digital Engineering outcomes on major projects or establishing Digital Engineering functions/frameworks within an organisation.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to operate strategically across multiple concurrent tenders and projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic oversight and governance across projects, tenders, and VIC/TAS Business Unit.
• Act as Digital Engineering escalation point and guide multidisciplinary teams.
• Support negotiations around Digital Engineering requirements, standards and deliverables.
• Engage confidently with clients, consultants and stakeholders to drive best practice.

Skills

Digital Engineering

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Governance

Tender support

Job description

CPB Contractors is Australia’s leading contractor and the largest infrastructure construction company in our region. Part of the CIMIC Group, we are proud to be constructing Australia’s future and do so collaboratively with our partners and clients. We hire for careers, not project life. CPB Contractors has more than 50 major infrastructure projects in delivery, across all key sectors of the construction industry, including roads and bridges, rail, tunnelling, defence, airports, buildings and resources, providing you with career opportunities for years to come.

Your Opportunity

We are seeking a senior Digital Engineering professional to provide strategic oversight and governance across projects, tenders, and the broader VIC/TAS Business Unit.

Reporting to the VIC Engineering Director, this role will act as the key Digital Engineering escalation point, supporting multiple tenders and projects simultaneously, while providing leadership and direction to Digital Engineering resources across the Business.

Key Areas Of Focus Include

• Digital Engineering governance, tender support, project mobilisation support, and framework establishment.
• Providing strategic oversight across tenders and projects, ensuring consistency and best practice.
• Supporting project teams and SMEs with technical guidance and problem-solving.
• Driving innovation and identifying opportunities to improve delivery through digital solutions and emerging technologies.
• Acting as a client-facing representative, engaging confidently with clients, consultants, and stakeholders.
• Supporting negotiations around Digital Engineering requirements, standards, and deliverables.
• Providing a long-term, Business Unit-wide perspective rather than a project-specific focus.

Our Minimum Requirements For This Role Are

We're open to candidates from contractor, engineering consultancy, client-side, or government environments. Experience within the Australian market would be advantageous; however, given the seniority of the role, we are also open to considering candidates from international markets.

Essential Requirements Include

• Demonstrated experience delivering Digital Engineering outcomes on major projects or establishing Digital Engineering functions/frameworks within an organisation.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to operate strategically across multiple concurrent tenders and projects.
• Approximately 12-15 years' relevant experience minimum.

We particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA+ community, mature workers, Veterans and Active Defence Reserve members, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds. CPB Contractors is proud to hold the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Citation - Employer of Choice for Gender Equality.

Benefits

• A rewarding career where we support your development, training and promote from within.
• Opportunities across all construction sectors so that there is always an opportunity suitable for the next stage in your career.
• Competitive remuneration and excellent benefits including a health and wellbeing program, discount portal and company-funded salary continuance insurance.
• Flexible work arrangements and a culture that values diversity and innovation.

Please note: This role is being sourced through CPB Contractors directly and we will not accept applications via external recruitment agencies.