Field Manager

Overview

Lead field teams to deliver maintenance & construction projects safely, on time, within budget.

Key Responsibilities

• program delivery
• safety compliance
• resource allocation
• stakeholder management
• team coaching
• performance analysis

Tasks

As a Field Manager, you’ll exemplify our Leadership Principles by guiding your team through change, fostering collaboration, and ensuring every decision reflects care and accountability. Every day brings a mix of leadership, coordination, and problem-solving. You’ll spend time in the field guiding your teams, managing priorities, and ensuring the safe and efficient execution of work. You’ll be both a coach and a decision-maker As a Field Manager, you’ll provide leadership, structure, and operational oversight to ensure work is delivered safely on time, and to specification. You’ll be accountable for managing people and performance, driving continuous improvement, and building technical capability within your team. You will play a key role in connecting strategy to execution; supporting planning, influencing operational decisions, and helping shape how field operations are delivered safely and effectively across NSW. -Analyse work performance and implement lessons learnt to enhance delivery efficiency. -Build workforce capability and technical proficiency through coaching and targeted development. -Lead, motivate, and develop a team of Field Coordinators and Technicians to deliver quality outcomes. -Provide visible leadership across field sites, reinforcing Transgrid’s safety-first culture. -Drive continuous improvement in safety, productivity, and operational performance. -Build relationships with stakeholders, contractors, and community partners to maintain trust. -Ensure work complies with all safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements. -Partner with technical experts and schedulers to optimise delivery and resource allocation. -Collaborate with stakeholders across Operations, Planning, and Engineering to align work programs. -Oversee program delivery to ensure work is executed safely, efficiently, and within budget.

Requirements

• advanced diploma
• erp
• power bi
• leadership
• budget management
• field operations

What You Bring

This is a pivotal leadership opportunity for an experienced and motivated individual to lead a team of field professionals responsible for delivering critical maintenance and construction work programs across Transgrid’s transmission network. -Proven experience managing budgets, schedules, and operational performance. -Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to engage and motivate others. -Advanced Diploma (or equivalent) in a technical or engineering discipline. -Clarity – We set clear expectations and communicate with intent. -Extensive experience managing field operations or large-scale maintenance programs. -Confidence in using ERP, Power BI, and digital systems to inform decision-making.

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Benefits

At Transgrid, we empower our people with a well-rounded benefits package designed to support their personal, professional, and social well-being, helping them deliver their best work every day. Employees have access to a range of corporate discounts across retail, utilities, travel, health & wellbeing etc., as well as novated leasing options, workplace flexibility, 20 weeks paid parental leave and more. Beyond benefits, we believe in real development and progression. Here, you’ll have access to regular and ongoing training, tertiary education support, and career mentoring. Enabling you to build a career that evolves with you.

About Transgrid

-Born in 1995 from the split of NSW’s Electricity Commission, it evolved into Australia’s largest high-voltage grid operator. -Manages over 13,000 km of transmission lines and 104 substations across NSW and the ACT, linking into the National Electricity Market. -Over a decade, rolled out a A$16.5 billion upgrade program, including mega-projects like EnergyConnect and HumeLink to reinforce energy superhighways. -Commercial arm Lumea has added 55+ renewable generators, contributing to the clean energy transition. -Backed by a major consortium including Spark, Utilities Trust of Australia, CDPQ, ADIA, and OMERS following a A$10.3 billion lease deal in 2015. -Key projects include the multi-state HumeLink (underway) and VNI West interconnector, despite community pushback. -Despite challenges, remains pivotal to Australia’s clean-energy transition.

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