Department Manager Electrical Engineering

Worley is a global professional services company of energy, chemicals and resources experts headquartered in Australia. Right now, we're bridging two worlds as we accelerate to more sustainable energy sources, while helping our customers provide the energy, chemicals and resources that society needs now. We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value over the life of their portfolio of assets.

We solve complex problems by finding integrated data-centric solutions from the first stages of consulting and engineering to installation and commissioning, to the last stages of decommissioning and remediation. Join us and help drive innovation and sustainability in our projects.

The Department Manager – Electrical Engineering provides leadership and direction for the electrical discipline, ensuring the right people, skills, capacity, processes and technical standards are in place to support safe, high-quality project delivery. The role is responsible for strategic resource management, capability development, performance, engineering quality and technical governance across delivery centres. Working closely with engineering managers, project teams, customers and other disciplines, the Department Manager serves as the primary point of contact for electrical discipline matters and promotes collaboration, continuous improvement and practical engineering solutions.

• Maintaining accurate personnel profiles and CVs, understand existing discipline capability and identify actions needed to meet future customer and project requirements.
• Building effective working relationships with customers, suppliers, contractors and internal stakeholders to support successful delivery and future opportunities.
• Contributing to networking, negotiations, strategic alliances and cost-efficient delivery, representing the electrical discipline with credibility and sound commercial judgement.
• Maintaining appropriate pricing and estimating records to support consistent, transparent and competitive proposals.
• Supporting proposals by developing engineering execution strategies, reviewing estimates, preparing proposal content and presenting to customers.
• Efficiently managing resource utilisation, staffing levels and discipline structures across multiple delivery centres, supporting both immediate project needs and longer-term business objectives.
• Managing performance and development processes fairly and consistently, building teams based on trust, mutual respect, inclusion and clear objectives.
• Providing effective change leadership through strategic thinking, clear communication, coaching and a constructive, solution-focused approach.
• Acting as the primary point of contact for electrical discipline matters and own the discipline’s technical competency and quality programmes.
• Overseeing team competency, role allocation and technical authority requirements, ensuring suitably qualified and experienced people are assigned to work.
• Providing electrical discipline technical governance on projects and ensure compliance with company processes, engineering practices, regulatory requirements and customer specifications.
• Supporting standardisation of equipment specifications, drawings, calculations and document templates across locations and delivery centres.
• Ensuring project requirements are met through effective use of engineering guidelines, delivery processes and resource management.
• Working with Project Management Teams to address project issues, staffing requirements, scope changes, schedule pressures and delivery performance.
• Reviewing and authorise work within delegated authority, ensuring technical quality, safety…