Jobs at GHD

Serve as a trusted HR advisor to business leaders, developing workforce strategies, managing complex employee relations and organizational change, strengthening leadership capability, and improving employee experience. The role leads regional and enterprise-wide people initiatives, applies employment legislation and industrial instruments, coaches leaders, and uses data and emerging technologies to inform decisions. It is primarily based in Sydney with collaboration across Parramatta and St Leonards offices under a hybrid model.

Leads software development across enterprise applications, providing technical direction for design, integration, delivery, testing, deployment, and maintenance. Partners with product owners and stakeholders on roadmaps and priorities, resolves complex software issues, and promotes secure, scalable engineering practices. Coaches and develops software engineering team members while supporting recruitment, performance, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Supports agricultural consulting and economic research projects under guidance. Collects, analyzes, interprets, and manages data; prepares reports and insights; assists with predictive analytics, client relationships, proposals, and project delivery. Follows established procedures, project plans, and health, safety, and environmental requirements while developing consulting, analytical, research, and technology capabilities.

Lead GHD’s power system capability and planning practice across Australia and New Zealand. Direct technical studies covering transmission capability, network planning, renewable integration, stability, system strength, inertia, and future grid development. Provide strategic client advice, manage commercial outcomes, mentor multidisciplinary teams, produce technical reports, and support business growth across utility, government, developer, and market-operator engagements.

Senior Legal Counsel supporting major infrastructure and engineering projects across APAC. Responsibilities include drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial contracts; advising project, technical, and operational teams; managing legal issues involving employment, privacy, intellectual property, disputes, compliance, and governance; and supporting projects from procurement through delivery and dispute resolution.

Design, develop, deploy, and support AI-powered applications and services using generative AI, machine learning, cloud platforms, APIs, and data pipelines. Translate business needs into scalable architectures, optimize AI systems, troubleshoot performance issues, and incorporate security, privacy, governance, and responsible AI practices. Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders, evaluate emerging technologies, contribute to standards, and mentor team members.

Leads sustainability strategy development and delivery, climate risk and carbon management advisory, complex client projects, business development, proposals, client relationships, team mentoring, and industry representation. The role supports growth of GHD’s Sustainability Advisory offering across water, transportation, property and buildings, environment, and energy and resources sectors.

Lead complex groundwater impact assessments and regional modelling studies across APAC. Apply advanced numerical modelling, calibration, uncertainty assessment, and PEST-based workflows using tools such as MODFLOW and FEFLOW. Manage projects from proposal through delivery, collaborate across multidisciplinary teams, engage clients, support business development, and mentor groundwater professionals while contributing to technical capability and leadership.

Designs and delivers earthing, bonding, lightning protection, electromagnetic compatibility, and related electrical infrastructure projects from concept through commissioning. Responsibilities include preparing technical documentation, managing work packages, conducting site inspections, supporting tenders, resolving technical issues, and coordinating with clients and multidisciplinary teams. The role also provides mentoring, training, proposal leadership, and quality and commercial management across energy, transport, resources, and critical infrastructure projects.

Designs, assesses, and evaluates concrete and embankment dams, spillways, outlet works, and related water infrastructure. Delivers projects from feasibility through detailed design, construction support, and close-out; conducts dam safety surveillance, risk assessments, and mitigation planning. Coordinates multidisciplinary teams, manages budgets and schedules, develops client and stakeholder relationships, supports proposals, and mentors junior engineers.

Lead development and ownership of the enterprise cybersecurity strategy and target-state architecture. Represent cyber risk to CTO and Board. Build specialist sub-teams, own vulnerability management and remediation cadence, command incident response, define and govern Zero Trust across Azure/identity/endpoint, oversee AI security posture, and drive CMMC Level 2 and FedRAMP readiness to enable US Federal client work.

Lead global workplace technology strategy and operations, owning device lifecycle, Azure Virtual Desktop/Nerdio, M365 administration and Copilot adoption. Build a Digital Workspaces & Collaboration function, measure digital employee experience, partner on workspace security, and drive AI agent readiness across multi-geography teams.