Title:  Engineering Manager

About John Holland

At John Holland, our purpose is simple – we transform lives with everything we do. We’ve always known that 
infrastructure is about people — our customers, our employees, and the communities in which we work every 
day. 
 
That’s our difference. Deep experience and capability with a genuine care about creating better lives for 
people along the way. 
Be part of the team that’s up for the challenge of transforming lives for good.

About the Role / Are you up for the challenge?

As Engineering Manager, you will be involved in the leadership and direction of the Engineering function, 
inclusive of Design, Digital Engineering, Temporary Works, Construction Phase Services and Systems 
Engineering and Assurance, through tender and project delivery.
To ensure the project deliverables comply with the project requirements, support the construction program, 
meet stakeholder requirements, and maintain a strong focus on driving positive outcomes across safety, 
quality, environment, stakeholders, community, and time.
To facilitate the internal interfaces between Design and Construction Teams in addition to managing 
external interfaces with key stakeholders, ensuring construction issues are identified and incorporated into 
the project documentation and that engineering requirements are observed in construction methodology 
planning.

Project Description

Inland Rail is transforming how goods are moved around Australia, connecting Melbourne and Brisbane via 
regional Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. This 1,700km fast freight backbone will complete our 
national freight network – better connecting producers to markets and creating new opportunities for regional 
businesses, industries and communities. 
The Beveridge to Albury (B2A) project is the Victorian portion of the program undertaken along approximately 
305 kms of existing northeast rail corridor between Beveridge and Albury. B2A is staged in two tranches. 
Tranche 1 includes enhancement works across four sites and corridor wide works. 
Tranche 2 works will be delivered by John Holland and includes adjustment of track alignments, the provision 
of new road overbridges and station modifications to enable the safe operation of double-stack freight trains 
across eight B2A project sites between Wandong and Benalla.  
 

Responsibilities of the role include / What you will do;

• Overall responsibility for the role on this high-profile major project includes:
• Promote Engineering and Design Management culture within projects
• Demonstrate people management by assisting with resourcing to ensure projects have the capability to 
• achieve targets
• Manage and coach engineering staff and foster a high-performance working environment
• Exhibit leadership in health, safety, environmental, sustainability and risk management
• Demonstrate commercial and contractual awareness in dealing with clients and external technical partners
• Assist with the selection and development of Engineering Management staff within the project by providing 
• leadership and mentoring to ensure appropriate competencies
• Review selection and engagement of technical partners with bid team and provide appropriate commercial 
• support
• Maintain relationships with technical partners
• Understand design compliance and reporting procedures and processes and leadership in the communication 
• of requirements
• Create and maintain strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to facilitate a collaborative 
• and positive design review process for obtainment of required approvals
• Facilitate timely decision making, appropriate assessment of change requests and opportunities for early 
• commencement of works 
• Promote consideration of temporary works requirements in permanent works design development.
• Provide engineering services to site management during the currency of contracts
• Assist in the preparation of estimates, submission of tenders and recommendations regarding construction 
• techniques, engineering procedures, and the utilisation of new technology
• Plan and control the delivery of project design to ensure the achievement of quality, completion, and project 
• objectives
• Monitor the management of design risks and issues.
• Drive application of value engineering and sustainability initiatives
• Manage the design approval process in accordance with project requirements and program
• Manage client and stakeholder expectations and communicate effectively with the project team 
• Provide engineering services to site management during the currency of contracts
• Foster the interaction between design and construction teams to maximise innovation and project success.
• Ensure that JH Safety in Design requirements are achieved
• Examine project change requests as requested, and advise on related engineering matters
• Coordinate the activities of outside engineering consultants (Temporary Works/ Proof Engineer)
• Review design and engineering management activities on bids and projects in consultation with other 
• managers and professionals to ensure that standards of quality, cost, safety, and time performance are 
• achieved
   

To be successful in this key role, you must have / What we are looking for;

• Tertiary qualification in Engineering
• Chartered Engineer or working towards Chartership with Engineer’s Australia equivalent 
• Demonstrated experience in engineering and technical management roles
• Multidiscipline experience specialising in design, engineering, and construction
• Management of technical teams in the delivery of design and engineering solutions for bids and projects, 
• including planning and budget management
• Financial management skills in planning and managing budgets included demonstrated behaviour in reducing 
• costs
• Experienced in stakeholder management with focus on relationship building, influencing, communication and 
• negotiation skills, particularly with design partners
• Quantitative and qualitative design risk identification, assessment, controls, and management
• Demonstrated ability to manage work and performance of teams

As part of the team, you can help us transform lives.

Your success is reflected in ours, so we’re committed to being an employer of choice. We pride ourselves on 
having a diverse and inclusive workplace, as we understand that different perspectives and ideas are critical 
to our long-term success.
We want you to be with us for the long term, so providing you with rich career experiences and ongoing 
development is our priority.
 

What’s in it for you

We’re about connecting your sense of purpose to ours. We understand that your career is one of the biggest 
ways to have an impact on the world. We also believe in supporting you as a whole person, not just an 
employee.
We reward and support our people in so many ways. This starts with being flexible about how different 
people like to work. From generous leave policies to wellbeing and relationship support, your needs sit at the 
heart of our employee benefits.

We offer:

Competitive remuneration with salary continuance, and salary sacrifice options.
Great leave benefits including 18 weeks paid parental leave with super and up to an extra 18 weeks of   super 
paid on further periods of unpaid parental leave, multicultural leave exchange and two extra days to prioritise 
your wellbeing.

Career progression underpinned by our exciting pipeline of work means you’ll have the opportunity to work 
on iconic projects that are shaping cities and communities.
Learning and development opportunities where you’ll have access to emerging talent programs, building your 
career through clear career pathways, plus technical and leadership training and development opportunities.
Inclusion, diversity and equity is part of how we work. We want everyone at John Holland to feel that they 
belong – that’s why we’re working hard every day to foster a more inclusive culture, backed by a business-
wide inclusion strategy to bring about meaningful change. We’ve also got active employee resource groups 
that support our commitments including those around gender equality and reconciliation.
Flexible working that works for you as we know flexibility means different things to different people. Whether 
it’s flexi-hours, flexi-parenting, flexi-leave, flexi-shifts or flexi-work, we’re committed to helping our people work 
flexibly.