Job Title: Group Manager, Power Systems

Employer: Leading Electrical Engineering Firm

Reports to: Executive General Manager

Position Summary:

This position is a senior leadership role with overall responsibility for the strategic direction, performance, governance, and growth of the Power Systems discipline across all projects and business units. This position provides executive-level oversight of power systems engineering activities, including renewable generation, battery energy storage systems, utility interfaces, and complex industrial power networks, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives, client expectations, and industry best practice.

The position leads and drives the company's technical excellence, consistency, and capability development across the discipline. Reporting directly to executive management, this position champions a culture of safety, quality, and innovation, while ensuring that power systems engineering outcomes meet the highest technical, commercial, and regulatory standards. This role requires a strategic and commercially astute leader capable of translating business goals into scalable power systems engineering strategies and building a high-performing specialist team to support the company's long-term success.

Description of Responsibilities:

Safety

- Champion a safety-first culture across all power systems engineering activities and project sites.
- Ensure compliance with company safety policies and statutory requirements, including ISO45001 (OHS) and ISO14001 (Environmental Management Systems).
- Provide leadership in identifying and mitigating safety risks associated with power systems design, construction, and commissioning.
- Lead by example in promoting safety, quality, and environmental responsibility.
- Engage with senior management and technical leaders on safety-related matters.

Quality:

- Ensure power systems engineering activities comply with relevant legislation, client specifications, and ISO9001 (Quality Management Systems) standards.
- Promote consistent application of the company's management system across the Power Systems discipline.
- Establish and maintain discipline-wide technical standards, methodologies, and review processes.
- Drive best-practice risk management and standardisation of power systems engineering deliverables.
- Oversee quality audits and continuous improvement initiatives, ensuring audit findings and non-conformances are addressed promptly.

Project Planning and Coordination:

- Provide strategic oversight of power systems engineering delivery across multiple projects and client portfolios.
- Support project teams in defining technical strategies, resourcing requirements, and delivery models for complex power systems scopes.




- Provide senior technical input into power systems design philosophies, functional requirements, and execution strategies.
- Oversee commissioning, start-up support, and client handover strategies for power systems projects.
- Represent the company as a senior technical authority in client meetings, technical reviews, and negotiations.

Change Management:

- Provide leadership and oversight for the management of significant technical changes within power systems projects.
- Ensure impacts of change on scope, cost, schedule, and risk are clearly assessed and communicated.
- Support consistent application of change management and technical governance processes across the discipline.

Verification:

- Ensure appropriate verification and validation frameworks are applied to critical power systems studies and deliverables.
- Provide oversight to confirm designs and implementations meet functional, performance, and compliance requirements.
- Ensure accurate maintenance of audit records, as-built documentation, and technical registers.

Reporting:

- Provide high-level reporting to the group on power systems performance, risks, and opportunities.
- Deliver executive summaries on project progress, system performance, and emerging technical issues.
- Ensure transparent, timely, and effective communication across all internal and external stakeholders.

Leadership:

- Provide leadership and direction for all engineering.
- Lead, mentor, and develop team, supporting succession planning and capability growth.
- Set discipline-wide technical expectations, governance frameworks, and professional standards.
- Foster a high-performance, team-oriented culture focused on accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Represent the company at industry forums, client engagements, and business development activities as a senior power systems authority.

Operational Management:

- Oversee discipline-level planning, resourcing, and workload management to support project delivery and business growth.
- Monitor performance metrics, utilisation, and budgets for the Power Systems group, implementing corrective actions where required.
- Ensure robust risk management practices are embedded across all power systems engineering activities.
- Drive initiatives to improve efficiency, scalability, and technical maturity within the discipline.




- Collaborate with other business units to align power systems engineering outcomes with broader company objectives.

Client & Stakeholder Engagement:

- Build and maintain strong, trusted relationships with key clients, contractors, and external partners and business ambassador.
- Lead contract negotiations and technical reviews at a senior level, ensuring alignment with client needs and company capabilities.
- Ensure transparent, timely, and accurate communication across all stakeholder groups to support informed decision-making and project success.
- Governance and Compliance:
- Ensure all power systems engineering activities comply with applicable legislation, standards, and internal company policies.
- Review and approve critical power systems documentation, reports, and regulatory submissions

Qualification/s:

- Bachelor of Engineering in a relevant discipline, or equivalent technical qualification
- Advanced qualifications (Masters degree, MBA, or similar) desirable but not essential

Experience

- Extensive experience in power systems engineering within industrial, utility-scale, renewable, and/or BESS environments (essential).
- Significant experience with mineral processing plant construction and commissioning (essential).
- Proven senior leadership experience managing specialist engineering teams (essential).
- Demonstrated success delivering complex, high-value engineering projects (essential).
- Strong commercial acumen, including budget management, contract oversight, and resource planning at a senior level (essential).

Essential Competencies (Knowledge, Skills and Attributes)

- Exceptional leadership skills with a demonstrated ability to inspire, mentor, and develop engineering professionals.
- Strategic thinker with strong business insight and the ability to align engineering outcomes.
- Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation, and communication skills.
- Deep technical expertise and broad knowledge of engineering standards, practices, and regulatory environments.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to risk management.
- Commitment to fostering a culture of safety, quality, and environmental responsibility.
- Ability to drive change and innovation in complex and evolving project environments.
- Lead cross-functional engineering governance forums and steering committees.
- Drive talent acquisition, retention, and succession planning for the engineering group.
- Champion digital transformation initiatives and the adoption of advanced engineering tools and methodologies.
- Support business development activities by providing technical leadership in proposals and client engagements.

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