Voltec Services Pty Ltd is seeking a General Manager - Electrical to join their team!

Running a successful electrical business means balancing growth, margins, people, clients, and quality all at once. This role offers the chance to lead a full operations and field team with genuine autonomy, strong support from the business owner, and the commercial backing needed to focus on leading the business as a whole. It's an chance to build something meaningful, grow a respected electrical services business, and be recognised for the results delivered.

About Voltec Services

Voltec Services is an electrical and technology services business, delivering safe, profitable, and high-quality work across construction and service sectors.

What you'll be doing?

- Leading client and technical conversations: Taking charge of major site visits and technical discussions with clients, reviewing estimates and tenders, and protecting margin, cash flow, and capacity by escalating anything outside agreed limits.
- Driving operational readiness: Owning handover processes, resource planning, materials readiness, scheduling decisions, and job-risk visibility to keep the business running smoothly day to day.
- Building team capability: Providing or coordinating technical guidance for office and field teams, with a focus on developing supervisors and technicians so expertise is shared across the business.
- Leading and developing the team: Setting direction, coaching performance, supporting team reviews, and fostering a constructive and safe culture, while recommending hiring and performance decisions for the director's approval.
- Strengthening client relationships:



Building rapport during site visits and tenders, and taking ownership of client concerns, variations, and disputes through clear, documented resolution.
- Upholding standards: Maintaining regulatory and company standards, ensuring risk assessments, site checks, testing, and completion reviews are consistently completed and visible.
- Tracking performance: Using the company scorecard and job data to manage utilisation, margin, quote conversion, schedule risk, and overall operating performance.
- Improving systems and processes: Using Simpro and other approved systems consistently, refining workflows and reporting, and helping the team get the most out of these tools.
- Supporting marketing efforts: Coordinating the operational and sales input needed for marketing activities and applying Voltec's marketing-spend guidelines.
- Leading a sizeable team: Reporting directly to the business owner and overseeing a team of approximately 20 staff across the operation.

Who are Voltec looking for?

- Robust communicator: Bringing strong interpersonal and client-facing skills to build trust with clients, teams, and stakeholders.
- Confident decision-maker: Demonstrating natural decision-making ability and sound judgment, especially when working under pressure.
- Commercially minded:



Having a demonstrated sales and commercial instinct that supports profitable, sustainable growth.
- Curious and resourceful: Approaching challenges with a learner mentality and a drive to seek out reliable information before making decisions.
- People leader: Showing the ability to lead teams, resolve conflict, and build genuine trust across the business.
- Experienced in trade leadership: Holding relevant operational leadership experience within electrical or trade services.
- Qualified and licensed: Holding the minimum required electrical qualification and licensing for the role.
- Technically grounded: Bringing a minimum level of hands‑on technical experience in the electrical trade.
- Systems savvy: Simpro proficiency from day one is required for this role.
- English proficiency: Strong English communication skills are needed to liaise confidently with clients, teams, and stakeholders across the business.
- Eligible to work in Australia: Full working rights in Australia are required for this role.

Why you should consider this opportunity?

Our client offers an attractive remuneration package and other benefits, such as:

- A competitive salary package of $160,000 to $190,000, with a vehicle or higher base-pay option available
- Potential for profit sharing and future equity, rewarding performance and long-term loyalty
- Four weeks of annual leave to support a healthy work-life balance
- Strong, genuine support from the business owner to help drive success in the role
- Happy to help with relocation if applying from outside Townsville

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📌 General Manager - Electrical (Townsville City)
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