Construction Technical Services Manager

At Transgrid, we play a crucial role in delivering safe, reliable, and sustainable energy to millions of Australians. Operating over 13,000 km of high-voltage transmission lines and 128 substations across NSW and the ACT, we connect electricity generators to the distribution network—powering homes, businesses, and communities.

As our Delivery portfolio continues to grow and evolve, we are investing in stronger technical leadership and more consistent ways of working across Construction. This newly created role will play a key part in lifting process discipline, governance, assurance and capability across the function, helping us improve how work is delivered in the field and across the broader business.

The Opportunity

This is a newly created leadership role within Construction, responsible for strengthening the systems, processes and governance that underpin safe, efficient and consistent project delivery.

Reporting to the Head of Construction, you will lead a small but diverse team and drive the uplift of construction process systems, assurance practices, capability development and continuous improvement initiatives. This role will work closely with leaders across Construction, Commissioning, Design, Quality and major project teams to improve how processes are defined, rolled out, adopted and embedded in the field.

This is an excellent opportunity for a technically credible and people-focused leader who enjoys building structure, improving ways of working, and leading meaningful change.

A Day in the Life

• Lead and support a team focused on technical services, process uplift and governance across Construction
• Review, refine and improve construction systems, procedures and assurance frameworks
• Partner with Construction, Commissioning, Design, Quality and Project teams to align responsibilities and improve delivery consistency
• Drive change management and communication activities to support adoption of improved ways of working across the business
• Visit sites regularly to stay connected to field teams, understand what is working, and identify opportunities for improvement

Why this Role Matters

This role has been created to help mature how Construction operates. Today, there is an opportunity to strengthen process discipline, improve governance, and create more consistency in how work is executed and learned across the field.

You will play a central role in helping shift the function from a more informal, experience-led environment toward a more standardised, scalable and process-led operating model. Your work will directly support safer delivery, stronger quality outcomes, better field adoption and long-term capability uplift across the business.

About You

You are a technically credible leader with experience in regulated infrastructure, utilities, energy or similarly complex industrial environments. You bring a blend of people leadership, operational improvement and stakeholder engagement, and you know how to turn good process into practical outcomes on the ground.

You will ideally bring:

• An engineering or technical background, ideally within electrical, utilities, infrastructure or energy environments
• Experience in construction, commissioning, technical governance, assurance or process improvement
• Prior leadership experience, with the ability to coach, support and align diverse teams
• Strong change management capability and the ability to embed new ways of working
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, with the confidence to work across field and corporate environments
• Experience in industries such as transmission, distribution, utilities, mining, oil & gas, renewables, BESS or broader energy infrastructure viewed favourably

Benefits & Perks

At Transgrid, we empower our people with a well-rounded benefits package designed to support their personal, professional, and social well-being, helping them deliver their best work every day. Employees have access to a range of corporate discounts across retail, utilities, travel, health & wellbeing etc., as well as novated leasing options, workplace flexibility, 20 weeks paid parental leave and more.

Applications close on the 6th of April 2026 – Apply today as applications will be assessed on a rolling basis and this opportunity may close early!