Total 12 purchasing lead job vacancies in Australia

What will a day in this role look like?

• Lead and mentor a team of civil engineers, designers, and drafters while fostering collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.
• Manage resourcing, project delivery, and operational support to ensure high-quality outcomes on time and within budget.
• Apply civil engineering expertise to deliver projects from strategy and detailed design to execution across diverse markets.
• Communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders, driving successful project outcomes across various sectors.
• Champion a culture of technical excellence, teamwork, and professional development through leadership, feedback, and support.

AECOM’s Water Infrastructure Team in Rockhampton is looking for a passionate and experienced engineer to help deliver a range of regionally significant infrastructure projects.

This is an opportunity to set your career on a new trajectory, working with a variety of specialists across the business within Northern Queensland, the Northern Territory and beyond. Gain an unparalleled blend of technical, project management and commercial skills from the opportunities afforded from a regional office whilst working for a truly connected global consultancy.

Living in Rockhampton combines professional achievement with a rich, fulfilling lifestyle. With an office right on the Fitzroy River, you will really live and work in the natural beauty of the Capricorn Coast and Great Barrier Reef!

Known as the gateway to the Capricorn Coast, the city offers a warm climate, beautiful natural attractions, and a friendly, welcoming community. With a mix of urban amenities and outdoor adventures, you can enjoy a balanced lifestyle while contributing to the region's development. AECOM fosters a collaborative and inclusive work environment, ensuring that your time in Rockhampton is both professionally rewarding and personally enriching.

Join us in Rockhampton and be part of a team dedicated to excellence and innovation in one of Queensland’s most vibrant regions.

What a day in this role could involve:

• You will have the opportunity to get involved in managing and completing projects from inception, including involvement in the bidding phase, concept design, detailed design, tendering, and construction phase support.
• Ensure all quality assurance processes are followed, delivering on time and within budget for design projects.
• Build and maintain strong relationships working with various clients across a range of sectors.
• You will guide and mentor junior engineers and designers, contributing to the growth of our talent pipeline.

• Responsible for management of the Rail Systems team (including the SESA team) within VSA and support ANZ major projects
• Assistance in capture planning and pursuits for key market opportunities
• Responsible for development and implementation of Rail Systems Sector client prioritization and strategies.
• Hold Project Director roles on key client Rail Systems projects
• Collaborate with the ANZ community to position for and secure key VSA and ANZ project opportunities.
• Work with the VSA Rail Group Lead to grow Rail business and execute strategy.
• Be involved in the strategic growth of the ANZ Rail business through:
  • Facilitation of the development and implementation of strategy in collaboration with the Regional Team Leaders
  • Analyse key markets to look at opportunities for growth
  • Support the Market Sector Leaders in identification of opportunities to collaborate between ANZ and the global business
  • Work with Marketing and Communications to support the brand enhancement and internal alignment of each business line
• Operational support for the business lines:
  • Involved in the review of the accuracy of the pipeline & highlight changes required to Team Leaders
  • Support implementation of initiatives focusing on:
    • Implementation of our sustainable legacies strategy
    • Digital Adoption

We are currently looking for experienced Program Controls specialists to lead program controls on large and highly complex infrastructure programs. We have opportunities in Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne in Aviation, Energy, Urban Development and Water. Successful candidates will play an integral part in our ANZ regional Program Management business line leadership and will contribute to the strategy and direction of Program Management and Controls function.

Here at AECOM, the Program Controls function helps establish the foundations to support the successful execution of some of the largest programs in the region by creating high performance and integrated teams as well as plans, tools, systems and processes for efficient delivery of those programs.

What will a day in this role look like:

• Manage and coordinate Program Controls for large programs, that are of high strategic value and have the highest level of execution complexity.
• Provide senior-level oversight for Program Controls activities including leading the coordination efforts across multiple projects within the program, ensuing seamless integration and alignment with the program objectives.
• Spearhead and implement innovative strategies to streamline processes, enhance collaboration ultimately optimising efficiency and productivity across the program.
• Use your visionary technical leadership to set the strategic direction for program controls, ensuring alignment with AECOM’s broader business objectives.

Provide expert guidance and oversight to project controls teams, ensuring the effective management of individual project elements alongside ensuring concise communication between project teams, stakeholders and senior leadership across the Program.

Due to significant contract awards in our ANZ Water business, we're expanding our Sydney team and are currently searching for a skilled Water Planner to play a key role in delivering projects and growing our integrated water planning services.

As part of our team of industry leaders, you'll work on innovative projects across growth servicing, strategic planning for water, wastewater, and recycled water networks. You'll collaborate with top specialists across Australia and globally, gaining exposure to complex, large-scale projects that will enhance your professional profile and carve a meaningful career pathway.

What will a day in this role might look like:

• Proactive delivery of high-quality and timely valued water network planning solutions that are focused on flexibility, sustainability, optimisation, integration, whole-of-lifecycle cost and acceptable risk.
• Utilise your creativity, foresight and mature judgment in anticipating and solving both routine and unusual project delivery, technical and client challenges, determining technical objectives and requirements, and developing standards and guides for technical activities and applications.
• Provide technical direction, mentor and train our junior professionals, fostering the growth and development of the team.
• Business development activities including client engagement, proposal preparation and bid management.

• Leveraging your change expertise to drive transformational projects and achieve impactful results.
• Applying strong project management skills to handle scheduling and budgeting, ensuring smooth execution across initiatives.
• Influencing and engaging with senior leadership to align their support with strategic goals.
• Building strong relationships and fostering a collaborative environment where everyone feels valued and heard.
• Adapting with agility to a global environment, working flexible hours while maintaining high delivery standards.

Due to an internal movement, our national Defence Team is looking for a passionate and collaborative Pursuit and Proposal Lead. Provide highly valued support to the capture phase, and lead bid phase activities for environmental, engineering and project management pursuits within the Defence sector. You’ll be part of a well-respected team that encourages excellence and achievement, and is driven by the core values of quality, reliability, passion, and persistence.

This role will:

• Work alongside the technical bid leads to manage the bid process
• Coordinate and write compelling content for submissions and presentations
• Coordinate and lead bid strategy, review and risk workshops
• Keep the bid teams on schedule to produce high quality documents within tight timeframes
• Maintain and develop content for the library of Defence pursuit collateral.

What will a day in this role look like:

• Build and nurture long-term relationships with new and existing clients.
• Prepare and review reports, proposals, tender documents, and correspondence.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to support staff development and manage   performance
• Offer technical expertise and lead business development efforts for project excellence.

• Lead strategic planning for high profiles projects to secure State and Commonwealth approvals
• Manage the delivery of complex approvals on major projects, including coordination of multidisciplinary technical teams, environmental impact assessment and approval processes
• Proven technical leadership and confidence managing multidisciplinary technical teams to identify risks, solve problems, communicate change through planning, design and approval processes.
• Provide technical advice and strategic planning for impact assessment and approvals across a diverse range of projects and environmental services
• Manage resources, delegating activities, monitoring and managing project budgets (with support as required)
• Leading business development activities, including proposals

Due to an internal promotion, AECOM’s Water Resources Team in South East Queensland is looking for an engaging and collaborative Team Lead to provide leadership, market engagement and to assist in growing our team. With AECOM’s flexibility, you can base yourself in any of our offices in the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast or Brisbane.

Our Water Resources team provides multi-disciplinary, integrated delivery of water resources services across all industry sectors, particularly in the areas of flood impact assessment, hydrological and hydraulic modelling, drainage design, mine water management and coastal engineering.

As a contemporary leader, you will promote a culture of teamwork and technical excellence.  This role will give you the opportunity to network across all areas of the business and with our leading specialists in ANZ and globally, building your professional profile and carving a career pathway that will make a difference.

What will a day in this role look like:

• You will be an integral member of the business line Leadership, you will have accountability for AECOM’s strategic, financial and client outcomes for the water resources business in the South-East Queensland region.
• Provide technical direction, mentor and train our junior members within the team.
• Business development including client engagement, proposal preparation and bid management.
• Proactive delivery of high-quality and timely valued water resources solutions that are focused on flexibility, sustainability, optimisation, integration, whole-of-lifecycle cost and acceptable risk.
• Creativity, foresight and mature judgment in anticipating and solving both routine and unusual project delivery, technical and client challenges, determining technical objectives and requirements, and developing standards and guides for technical activities and applications.
• Collaborate with local, regional, and global AECOM colleagues as part of project delivery.

What will a day as a Power Systems Lead will look like: 

• Be a mentor - advise, review and guide engineers across grid interconnection and system planning studies for grid scale wind, solar, energy storage and hybrid generating systems
• Partner with clients - support proponents with negotiating performance standards with AEMO and network service providers
• Nurture relationships - support key clients with stakeholder management during studies and due diligence process liaising with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Influence Strategy - support strategic pursuits and bids/proposals for major projects 

The following qualifications and experience are highly desired, but if you don’t tick all the boxes you could still be a perfect fit for this role. Please apply, all applications will be considered.  

As a result of a significant project pipeline, AECOM's Western Australian Resource and Industry Business Line has an opportunity for a Lead Mechanical Engineer, Materials Handling. to support the successful completion of projects across Western Australia, Australia and Globally.

Working as part of a dynamic, consulting environment, you will have the opportunity to work on a range of projects within Mining and associated Industries, such as surface, underground mine operations and within Iron Ore, Alumina, Gold, Manganese Ore etc.

Our team of industry experts and network of technical specialists will support the development of your technical and project management capabilities, giving you the opportunity to support project delivery to a broad range of clients and industry sectors. Working across mining, minerals processing, chemicals and defence will give you a broad exposure and help build your career.  

What will a day in this role look like?

• Consulting with Tier 1 Mining clients with a particular focus on mining infrastructure, materials handling and surface non-process infrastructure for brownfield and greenfield assets (specifically crushing, screening, bulk materials handling, pumping & piping networks and water facilities)
• As a Lead Mechanical Engineer, you will provide study management and technical leadership across the team
• Act as focal point for the client and the AECOM Design Team 
• Use your experience as a Technical Specialist to deliver technical outcomes and leadership to the Project Team