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Working within a collaborative multi-disciplinary environment, you will lead the design and delivery of innovative wet and dry fire protection solutions while contributing to projects that shape communities across NSW and the ACT.\nBoth roles will provide technical leadership across the full project lifecycle, ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality fire protection engineering solutions for our clients. The positions will be centred on technical excellence, innovation, and project delivery, with opportunities to support client engagement, project management, and business development activities as part of a broader leadership role within the team.\nThese roles can be based out of any of our Sydney, Newcastle, Canberra or Wollongong based offices. GHD has 16 offices in the NSW and ACT region. While the above four are preferred please feel free to discuss further.\nWorking with an energetic and high performing team, this position offers a variety of work and will see you involved in:\nLeading project scope development, tender preparation, technical design and project delivery for a range of complex fire protection engineering projects.\n\nDelivering wet and dry fire protection engineering solutions across a range of market sectors such as transport, health, education, industrial, energy, defense, data centers, aviation and hazardous materials facilities throughout Australia.\n\nDeveloping and reviewing designs for active fire protection systems, ensuring compliance with relevant codes, standards and client requirements.\n\nCollaborating with architects, engineers and multi-disciplinary project teams to deliver innovative, practical and high-quality solutions.\n\nManaging project budgets, schedules and resources to achieve strong commercial outcomes while exceeding client expectations.\n\nBuilding trusted client relationships through technical advisory, site visits, proposal development and business development activities.\n\nMentoring and developing junior engineers while contributing to technical excellence through design reviews and quality assurance activities.\n\nWhat would you bring to the team?\nFire Protection Accreditation Scheme (FPAS) registration (Fire Systems Design Practioners) is a requirement for our Technical Director Role.\n\nOur Senior Role is open to candidates working towards the FPAS registration in Fire System Design.\n\nDegree qualified Engineer with 6-10+ years’ proven experience in the detailed design/ preparation of technical documentation in both wet and dry fire projects\n\nWhile the roles will be predominately design and technically focused, a willingness to contribute to and lead business development activities backed by an active professional network.\n\nPractical knowledge of relevant Australian Standards, the National Construction Code of Australia and codes of practice. 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