Section Manager - Water page is loaded## Section Manager - Waterlocations: Sydney, Australiatime type: Full timeposted on: Posted 8 Days Agojob requisition id: JR **The Opportunity** We’re establishing a new team in Sydney to support both regional and metro clients in NSW. Due to a number of significant project wins, the team is scaling rapidly.This leadership role presents an exciting opportunity to build and shape a high-performing team within one of Beca’s fastest-growing markets. You’ll have the autonomy to foster an inclusive culture, and set new standards for collaboration and operational excellence, making a significant impact on both people and project outcomes.This visible leadership opportunity also enables you to develop as a leader renowned for empowering others and driving successful partnerships. With high-profile projects and ongoing market expansion, you’ll be at the forefront of industry innovation while cultivating strong client relationships across major utilities.For those seeking to leave their mark through team building, strategic influence, and cooperative success, this is a truly career-defining role.**Key Responsibilities** Reporting to the Operations Manager Water Australia – you’ll lead the team through growth with a primary focus on the following key focus areas:* Onboarding new talent into the Sydney team, ensuring a smooth induction and clear ways of working.* Retention and wellbeing across a predominantly new team through purposeful leadership, ensuring good distribution of workload through effective resourcing.* Enable engagement and work-sharing with other Beca sections and business lines to balance workload and grow capability.* Lead ongoing recruitment to build a balanced, high performing team.**About You** You bring proven leadership experience managing multidisciplinary teams in the water or related infrastructure sectors, with a demonstrated track record of building and developing high-performing teams, navigating periods of rapid growth, and delivering complex projects in dynamic environments.You foster an inclusive, collaborative culture that empowers people and drives operational excellence, and you engage effectively with clients while managing stakeholder relationships at all levels.You champion innovation and continuous improvement, and you’re adept at leading large teams where most team members are recent to Beca—bringing structure, stability, and momentum as the team forms.You thrive amid change and help others navigate it constructively, harnessing the strengths of multidisciplinary teams. Success in this role relies on building and maintaining connections across multiple business lines, so you are proactive in collaboration, stakeholder engagement, and cross-team delivery.**Water at Beca** While water is the world’s most precious resource, at Beca, our people are our most precious resource. Together, we are transforming our world. We are passionate about what we do and the culture we’ve developed.The more diverse we are, the better our ideas, strategies and client solutions will be and the more we will represent our world. We know we are stronger when people from different backgrounds and perspectives work together.We are committed to growing an workplace where our people have equal chance to build a career that reflects their abilities and passions, believe in their potential, feel they belong and can be their best selves.Beca is proudly employee-owned. After a century of operation, employee ownership remains key to Beca’s future. It underpins our positive, purpose-driven and growth-oriented culture; it sets us apart from our competitors and gives meaning to our 'social contract'. That is, we’re accountable, we have each other’s backs, we don’t let each other down, and we strive for excellence in everything we do.We recognise that one of the challenges people can face in building their careers is managing work and home life. At Beca, we encourage our people to find an arrangement that works for them—whether that involves part-time, working from home or flexible working arrangements. We are open to discussing options on how this could work for you in roles across our Water teams.**What we offer*** Flexibility & Wellbeing: We recognise that achieving a work-life balance is unique to everyone. Enjoy flexible working options to manage your personal and family priorities, along with dedicated leave for wellbeing and community engagement.* Belonging & Ownership: Join a diverse and inclusive team where collaboration and creativity thrive. Bring your whole self to work and take advantage of unique shareholder opportunities to share in our collective success.* Parental Leave: Take time for what matters most with up to 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave, inclusive of all genders.* Career Growth & Development: Your growth is our priority! Benefit from continuous learning through our training programmes and support for professional accreditation, including pathways to Chartership with Engineers Australia. Work alongside industry leaders and gain hands-on experience to empower your career potential.Beca prides itself on supporting a diverse and inclusive culture – open to inputs from creative people of all genders, ethnicity, identity, thought and experiences.Beca is one of the Asia-Pacific region's largest employee-owned professional services consultancies. Our team of over 4,000 professionals is diverse enough to bring a wide range of perspectives and expertise to every client and challenge, creating resourceful, smart solutions from our collective experience and insights.At Beca we make every day better for our clients, our people and our community—and your involvement makes it possible. Our size and agility mean you’re not just on the fringes; you’re making a visible difference, partnering to develop and deliver solutions from the ground up.If you want to make every day better, apply online today!For further information please visit: everyday better Creative people together transforming our world' is our vision. It reflects our culture, our aspirations and our purpose - to make everyday better. But we need problem solvers - the makers, the creators, the planners and practitioners to convert ideas into reality.For over 100 years, we’ve been making a visible difference, developing, and delivering solutions for our clients, our people and our community. Focusing on sustainability, innovation, and digital technologies, to create better and safer outcomes.Our employee-ownership model sets us apart. It’s an opportunity for our people to be invested in the future success of our business, with share ownership available for eligible employees.We also offer a range of employee benefits, designed to reward and recognise the amazing things our people are doing everyday. And our values of partnership, tenacity, enjoyment and care are reflected in the way we work, with our people and with our clients.When you are part of our Beca family, you’ll own your own career path and contribute to a legacy. Join us and discover for yourself how you own your career and can make a everyday better.
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