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.

About North Western Program Alliance

North Western Program Alliance (NWPA) consists of five Alliance partners – John Holland, KBR, MTM, V/Line and the client (LXRP), working together as one team to achieve shared goals.


Since 2017, NWPA has had a proven track record with the successful delivery of eight level crossing removal projects (13 LX) and several premium stations, with two projects currently in delivery and several in in development phase.


We’re proud to make a real difference to the lives of people on our program of works and in the communities in which we operate. Our values are Care, Excellence, Creativity and Empowerment.

About the Role

Whilst you will be initially based on the North Western Program Alliance, this is a long-term career opportunity with John Holland.

As Engineering Manager, you will lead and guide our Engineering function, including Digital Engineering, Temporary Works, Construction Phase Services, and Systems Engineering and Assurance. With a focus on delivering successful projects, you will ensure compliance with project requirements, support the construction program, and meet stakeholder expectations.

Your expertise will also be crucial in managing internal and external interfaces, ensuring construction issues are addressed and engineering requirements are met. Join us in driving positive outcomes across safety, quality, sustainability, environment, stakeholders, community, and time.

Key responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Promote Engineering and Design Management culture within projects and manage and coach engineering staff to foster a high-performance working environment.
• Demonstrate people management by assisting with the selection and development of Engineering Management staff to ensure projects have the capability to achieve targets.
• Exhibit leadership in health, safety, environmental, sustainability, quality and risk management.
• 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.
• Foster the interaction between design and construction teams to maximise innovation, value engineering, sustainability and project success.
• Understand design compliance and reporting procedures and processes and leadership in the communication of requirements to facilitate timely decision making and appropriate assessment of change requests.
• Demonstrate commercial and contractual awareness in dealing with clients and external technical partners.

To be successful in this role, you will have;

• 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.