Aecom
Trusted global infrastructure consulting firm delivering engineering, design, construction management services.
Technical Director - Structural Engineering
Lead structural engineering projects, drive growth, manage teams and client relationships.
Job Highlights
About the Role
The Technical Director – Structural Engineering will join AECOM’s Melbourne team in a strategic leadership role, overseeing the delivery of complex multi‑disciplinary projects across various sectors. This position shapes the structural business’s direction, cultivates client relationships, and empowers a high‑performing team to achieve outstanding results. Key responsibilities include executing the sector strategy to drive profitable growth, building and maintaining strong client and stakeholder relationships, and providing project and people leadership through recruitment, mentoring, succession planning, and a focus on wellbeing and inclusion. The role also ensures delivery excellence, governance, quality, safety, digital innovation, and client satisfaction while promoting collaboration and continuous improvement across the enterprise. • Lead execution of sector strategy to drive profitable growth across multidisciplinary projects. • Build and maintain strong client, partner, and stakeholder relationships. • Provide project and people leadership, including recruitment, mentoring, succession planning, and wellbeing initiatives. • Ensure delivery excellence, quality, safety, digital innovation, and client satisfaction. • Champion collaboration, enterprise workshare, change initiatives, and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- ▸strategic growth
- ▸client relations
- ▸team leadership
- ▸delivery excellence
- ▸digital innovation
- ▸safety management
What You Bring
The ideal candidate holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) and brings over 18 years of structural engineering experience, with a proven track record of delivering major multidisciplinary projects and leading large, diverse teams. Strong leadership, communication, commercial acumen, and business development skills are essential, alongside the ability to manage complex projects from concept to delivery. • Hold a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) with over 18 years of structural engineering experience. • Demonstrated success delivering major multidisciplinary projects and leading large teams. • Strong leadership, communication, commercial acumen, and business development capabilities.
Requirements
- ▸beng civil
- ▸18 years
- ▸structural
- ▸leadership
- ▸communication
- ▸business development
Benefits
AECOM offers flexible work arrangements, including hybrid, part‑time, job‑share and alternative start/finish times, as well as up to six weeks of additional annual leave and the ability to flex public holidays. Employees benefit from continuous learning opportunities, professional development support, paid study leave, and a global career platform, all within an inclusive environment that provides adjustments for disabilities and neurodiversity. • Flexible work options (hybrid, part‑time, job‑share, alternative hours) and up to six weeks extra annual leave. • Continuous learning support: lunch‑and‑learns, professional development, paid study leave, global career opportunities. • Inclusive workplace with adjustments for disabilities, neurodiversity, and a commitment to equity and belonging.
Work Environment
Office Full-Time