Job Description

About BMD

BMD is Australia’s leading integrated engineering, construction and urban development business, with foundations built on the family values that underpin our unique, collaborative approach. Driven by a purpose of powering futures and creating enduring legacies through a commitment to collaboration, BMD is delivering infrastructure solutions that connect and transform communities. With a proud history beginning in 1979, BMD now employs 2,400 people throughout Australia, the Philippines and United Kingdom.

About the Role

Lead communications, stakeholder engagement and community relations for a complex major infrastructure opportunity. You will establish trusted relationships, provide clear advice to project leaders and ensure stakeholder considerations are integrated into planning and delivery decisions. BMD is building a project leadership team for a major Tier 1 infrastructure opportunity in South Australia. The role will support a complex, multidisciplinary program with significant civil, structural and marine interfaces.

Your role will include:

• Develop and execute stakeholder engagement and communications strategies aligned with project objectives.
• Lead the planning of stakeholder identification, analysis and mapping across government agencies, regulators, local communities, environmental organisations, industry and other key stakeholders.
• Plan and deliver consultations, community events, meetings and project updates, develop and maintain accurate engagement records.
• Develop communications plans, key messages and approved collateral across project channels.
• Work with design and construction teams to integrate stakeholder feedback and manage impacts.
• Lead community and public relations, issues, crisis and media-response planning, including reputational risk management.
• Monitor engagement outcomes, project KPIs and communications performance, and provide regular reporting.
• Supervise and mentor communications and stakeholder engagement team members.

About You

To be successful, you will bring:

• Demonstrated experience leading communications and stakeholder engagement within major infrastructure or construction.
• Proven experience developing engagement strategies, community programs, communications plans and issues-management responses.
• Strong capability in partnering with project delivery teams, government and community stakeholders to deliver project outcomes
• High-quality written communication, facilitation and relationship-management skills.
• Ability to manage competing issues, sensitive information and approval pathways in a complex project environment.
• Experience operating at a senior level within business or project environments, including the preparation, presentation and communication of reports to Senior Executives.
• Willingness to relocate to Adelaide.

Highly regarded:

• Demonstrated experience delivering stakeholder and engagement outcomes on major infrastructure projects for government authorities, Tier 1 contractors, joint ventures or comparable project delivery organisations.
• Experience across civil, structural, marine, transport, utilities or complex industrial infrastructure.
• Experience leading or mentoring advisors and coordinating social procurement, sustainability or community-benefit activities.
• IAP2 certification

Diversity and inclusion

We recognise that we are strengthened by diversity, and we embrace differences as an equal opportunity employer providing a flexible and inclusive workplace.

So, join our team, be yourself and help us power futures and create legacies.

We’re a purpose and values-led business guided by our values of family, empowered, collaborative and driven. For further details on what makes BMD unique, head to https://www.bmdgroup.global/careers