Director – Gas Turbine Facility Development I Energy

- Full time
- State/Province: Victoria
- Business Group: DCS
- Legal Entity: AECOM Australia Pty Ltd
- Business Line: Energy
- Work Location Model: Hybrid
- Operating Group: International
- Primary Location: AU - Melbourne, VIC - 8 Siddeley Str

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AECOM’s Energy practice provides a wide range of services from consulting and design to advisory and procurement support for power, energy efficiency, and renewable energy clients. Our understanding of the big picture – and the interconnection between generation, distribution, transmission, energy storage, and the demand side of the meter – allows us to deliver holistic strategies that improve and modernise next generation energy infrastructure. We connect knowledge and experience across our global framework to bring together a unique combination of engineers, planners, scientists, and project managers who advance cleaner, secure, and more sustainable energy solutions.

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Newly created leadership role as Director – Gas Turbine Facility Development with AECOM’s Australian Generation & Storage energy team working with an established team of Industry leaders and with technical subject matter expertise across multiple disciplines in Australia, New Zealand (NZ) and globally.





This role provides a leadership opportunity working across this rapidly evolving market for thermal gas generation related projects, with a key focus on gas turbine facility development in the Australian energy supply chain. You will have leadership responsibilities for establishing the technical approach for projects, as well as delivering projects with clients focusing on delivery excellence across the entire project lifecycle. You will be leading AECOM’s technical approach providing front end technical feasibility and concept design, owners engineer support, across complex thermal and related energy generation projects with varied client, site, engineering and delivery requirements.

You will have scope to make a real difference with the changing generation requirements across the portfolio of energy generation assets. You will also have plenty of variety working across very different project types including greenfield and brownfield related thermal gas projects with clients located throughout Australia – all with unique and diverse generation approaches of varying scope and scale. Your ability to build positive working relationships as a trusted advisor with a broad range of stakeholders with clients and their technical teams, with contractors and site teams, as well as with OEMs will be important. You will also be balancing project delivery excellence, supporting the delivery of complex, innovative,



and rapidly evolving technical requirements for gas generation related projects with an understanding of Australian construction regulation and requirements across States as they apply to the design stages and Owners Engineer role during construction. In addition, you will be leading across project stages from inception to concept and detailed design, procurement, construction and commissioning, bringing your experience of end-to-end project delivery in the energy generation sector.

You will have a broad scope to make a lasting difference across Australia‘s energy transition during a rapidly evolving energy landscape, as our clients look to explore and solve gas generation supply and demand challenges. The fast-paced and innovative nature of projects will suit an engineering and technical leader looking to grow client relationships and make a difference across the Australian generation sector in this technical, delivery and client-based role.

How you will make a difference

- Lead Gas Generation project delivery and technical requirements across Australia, working closely with the Industry Directors to connect with clients and the market to originate project proposals acting as a trusted advisor.
- Lead and manage the technical workstreams for Gas Turbine facility development working with client technical teams, as well as with AECOM engineering and design disciplines, applying your project experience across process, mechanical, electrical and related engineering domains.
- Prepare functional and technical specifications for Gas Turbine facility projects and technical support for the procurement and evaluation of specific OEM gas

📌 Director - Gas Turbine Facility Development (Hybrid) (Melbourne)
🏢 Aecom
📍 Melbourne