Beca’s Power business operates as a truly combined Asia Pacific business, with teams based in Australia, New Zealand, Thailand and Indonesia. Working collaboratively, our teams are passionate about renewable energy and the delivery of critical energy projects working across the full project lifecycle from scoping, detailed design through to procurement and construction support. Together delivering large, complex energy and renewable projects across Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution, and HV Power services to key utilities, energy developers, major contractors for the commercial, industrial and infrastructure sectors.
The Opportunity
This is a newly created Section Manager opportunity to support the continued growth of the Beca Power business in Australia. This role presents an opportunity to build and shape a high-performing team in one of Beca’s fastest-growing markets. This role will be based in Sydney.
You will be working with an established leadership team including the other Power Section Managers, as well as Team, Technical, Market, Client and Project Leaders. You will be leading the focus on the growth drive for our Brisbane and Sydney Power teams (from a current size of 20), while also collaborating in a truly pan Beca approach with the Power business line approach to resourcing with teams based across Australia, New Zealand, Jakarta and Thailand. You’ll have the autonomy to foster an inclusive culture, and set new standards for collaboration and service excellence, making a significant impact on both people and project outcomes.
Our section manager roles are busy, challenging, dynamic and rewarding positions where your abilities will be tested and developed, playing a significant part in developing our people, hiring new team members and supporting Power’s project, client and commercial goals.
To set this role and team up for success, this role will be based in Beca’s Sydney office and will involve some domestic and possibly international travel. Further details on the Beca Power team please visit: https://www.beca.com/join-our-team/our-opportunities/career-potential-you-never-thought-possible.
Key Responsibilities
Lead the Power team through growth with a primary focus on the following key focus areas:
Leading recruitment and work force planning activities for the section across career levels and technical disciplines with a focus on growth in the size of the team.
Onboarding new talent into the team, ensuring a smooth induction and clear ways of working.
Retention and wellbeing across a predominantly new team through purposeful leadership, ensuring good distribution of workload through effective resourcing.
Enable engagement and work-sharing with other Beca sections and business lines to balance workload and grow capability.
Lead a high performing team who excel at technical delivery, client service, innovation, quality and achieve delivery to project work package cost plans.
About You
To be successful in this role, you will bring leadership experience leading teams, with demonstrated track record of building and developing high-performing teams and navigating periods of rapid growth. This experience may be in a current Manager role, Team Leader role or could be in a delivery, technical, or client-focused role with the right mix of business, people, and leadership skills.
You will be known as a leader who ‘sets the bar’ in terms of culture and professionalism. You will be able to inspire a positive working environment, and will know how to guide, develop, challenge, and inspire other professionals with experience in 1:1 development focused conversations. You will enjoy a challenge, be action focused, display the ability to balance competing time commitments, and be comfortable with making commercial judgements. You will have (and be ready to develop) your broad leadership skills with an understanding of employment issues from a people leadership perspective.
You foster an inclusive, collaborative culture that empowers people and drives operational excellence, and you engage effectively with stakeholders, managing stakeholder relationships at all levels.
You thrive amid change and help others navigate it constructively, harnessing the strengths of multidisciplinary teams. Success in this role relies on building and maintaining connections across multiple business lines, so you are proactive in collaboration, stakeholder engagement, and cross-team delivery.
Who is Beca?
Beca is one of the Asia-Pacific region's largest employee-owned professional services consultancies. Our team of over 4000 professionals is diverse enough to bring a wide range of perspectives and expertise to every client and challenge, creating resourceful, smart solutions from our collective experience and insights.
‘Creative people together transforming our world’ is our vision. It reflects our culture, our aspirations and our purpose – to make everyday better. Our four values – partnership, tenacity, enjoyment and care – sit at the heart of everything we do, reflecting how we work every day with each other and our clients.
At Beca we make everyday better for our clients, our people and our community and your involvement makes it possible. Our size and agility mean you’re not just on the fringes; you’re making a visible difference, partnering to develop and deliver solutions from the ground up.
As a people-focused business, we understand that work-life balance means a lot of different things to different people and that it’s not always easy juggling work with everything else life throws at us. This is why we are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for all opportunities in the Beca team.
Ready to make the move? Apply now!
If you want to make every day better, apply online today! If you have any questions, you can find out more about our people and projects by visiting www.beca.com.
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