At UGL, our Utilities business is at the forefront of Australia’s energy transition, delivering essential design and construction services for critical infrastructure across the power sector. We provide end-to-end solutions on major projects including transmission lines, switchyards, substations, and electrical distribution networks.

Our expertise spans the full project lifecycle—design, construction, commissioning, operations, and maintenance. Whether through self-performed work, collaboration with subcontractors, or joint ventures, our teams deliver projects safely and effectively across Australia. Our capabilities cover everything from engineering and structural works to civil, electrical installation, and commissioning.

To date, we’ve successfully delivered over 7,300 km of transmission lines and completed more than 300 substation projects—and we’re just getting started!

About the role:

Reporting to the Senior Commercial Manager, the Commercial Manager – Subcontracts & Supply is responsible for managing downstream commercial, procurement and subcontracting activities across bids and project set ‑up, ensuring commercial governance, competitive sourcing, and efficient subcontract formation. The role provides commercial advice, supports tender development, oversees vendor management processes, and ensures alignment with UGL commercial frameworks. As required, the role provides general support to project delivery teams based on capacity.

What will a day in this role look like:

·Lead and develop a small downstream commercial/procurement team, ensuring workload allocation, coaching and quality assurance.

·Bid and tender commercial support - Lead end ‑to ‑end downstream procurement and subcontracting processes for bids and project mobilisations.

·Prepare and issue RFx documentation, coordinate supplier engagement, and conduct commercial evaluations.

·Vendor & Supply Chain Management including Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander and other social initiatives

·Support continuous improvement across procurement and commercial systems and processes.

The following qualifications and experience are highly desired, but if you don’t tick all the boxes you could still be a perfect fit for this role. Please apply, all applications will be considered.

What are we looking for you to bring to the team:

·Experience in commercial, procurement or subcontract management within engineering, construction or utilities.

·Strong understanding of subcontract formation and commercial evaluation processes.

·Experience leading or coaching small teams.

·Strong communication, negotiation and stakeholder engagement skills.

·Tertiary qualifications in Business, Law, Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Procurement or equivalent experience (preferred).

·Strong leadership, people management and communication skills to manage and mentor commercial and project team resources and key management and stakeholder engagement.

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Why Unite with the Very Best…

• A highly competitive salary working in a rewarding, supportive and successful team
• Back yourself and your development, and UGL will back your growth
• Flexible and blended work environment; make use of flexible working and our impressive employee benefits, including:
  • A rewarding Wellness Program with AIA Vitality – earn cashback for gym shoes!
  • We’ll give you access to a multitude of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment.
  • You can also take advantage of our salary sacrifice options including cars, eligible portable electronic devices and professional memberships.

UGL – Big projects. Big careers.

We keep Australia moving through our transport manufacturing, maintenance and operations offering, and we support the energy sector through our renewables, power generation, resources and transmission operations. We are an end-to-end engineering and services provider (one of Australia’s biggest inhouse design houses)

We’re the people behind communications, transport, utilities, power, oil, gas, Defence and renewables. We build tunnels under rivers and flyover roads. We’re the people who take on the problems that have never been solved. The ones that stretch you outside of what’s known, where your true genius is challenged and shines.

Diversity & Social Inclusion

UGL is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where each employee feels safe to bring their whole selves to work. We encourage applications from Indigenous Australians, Women, Military Veterans, those from diverse cultural backgrounds, people with a disability and our friends in the LGBTIQ+ Community.

UGL respectfully acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land in which we work and pays our respects to elders past, present and emerging.

As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate an applicant’s suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, due diligence checks, right to work checks, and/or reference checks. It’s good to know that UGL does not discriminate based on a Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check.