National Coastal & Maritime Lead

AECOM
Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Newcastle
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceSkills: ["Leadership","Mentoring","Client relationship management","Collaboration","Commercial growth","Strategic oversight"]

Lead the development of a national Coastal & Maritime capability across Australia, partnering with Ports & Marine and supported by an established Water business. You’ll build, mentor, and grow a high-performing specialist team, provide trusted client advisory, and oversee delivery of innovative, data-driven solutions. Focus on strategic oversight, commercial growth, and long-term client relationships—while helping shape future market influence across ports, coastal infrastructure, dredging, and resilience programs.

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Job Summary

Lead the development of a national Coastal & Maritime capability across Australia, partnering with Ports & Marine and supported by an established Water business. You’ll build, mentor, and grow a high-performing specialist team, provide trusted client advisory, and oversee delivery of innovative, data-driven solutions. Focus on strategic oversight, commercial growth, and long-term client relationships—while helping shape future market influence across ports, coastal infrastructure, dredging, and resilience programs.
Location: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Newcastle
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and execute AECOM’s national Coastal & Maritime capability across Australia.
  • •Build, mentor, and develop a team of coastal and maritime specialists.
  • •Partner with clients to solve complex coastal, maritime, and shoreline management challenges.
  • •Provide strategic oversight of technical modelling and advisory teams and projects.
  • •Drive project performance, commercial outcomes, and long-term client partnerships, and support new opportunities across ports and coastal infrastructure.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Additional LeaveHybrid WorkVolunteer LeavePublic Holiday

Key Requirements

  • •Proven experience (ideally 15 years' +) within coastal and maritime engineering, coastal processes, or a related consulting environment.
  • •Demonstrated success building client relationships nationally to enable and drive growth.
  • •Experience in coastal, wave, or hydrodynamic modelling to provide technical credibility for leading specialist teams and advising clients.
  • •A track record of leading project delivery, commercial outcomes, and long-term partnerships with strong client relationship management.
  • •Experience mentoring and growing high-performing multidisciplinary teams, with the ability to collaborate across regions and technical disciplines.
Skills:LeadershipMentoringClient relationship managementCollaborationCommercial growthStrategic oversight
Languages:English
Tech Stack:MIKESpectral wave modellingSediment transport analysisCoastal modelling platformsHydrodynamic modelling

Company Brief

AECOM
AECOM is a global infrastructure firm providing design, consulting, construction, and management services across transportation, buildings, water, environment, and energy sectors, delivering large-scale projects for public- and private-sector clients worldwide.
Industry: Civil Engineering
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Los Angeles, United States
Founded: 1990
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