Business Manager
Permanent | Full Time | $90-$100k
- Provide leadership across key business support functions in a growing organisation
- Improve systems, processes and business performance through practical, hands-on leadership
- Build strong teams, clear accountability and a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement
- Work closely with the CEO and leadership team to drive strategic growth and long-term success
Bowhill Engineering is entering an exciting new stage of growth, and we’re looking for an experienced and people-focused Business Manager to help lead the business through its next chapter. This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal leadership role within a growing engineering and manufacturing business, helping strengthen our systems, support our people, and build the structure required to successfully grow from approximately 60 employees to 90+ and beyond. Specialising in major infrastructure projects and complexity done excellently, Bowhill Engineering is powered by technology and driven by great people to optimise and build structures that matter.
About the Role
The Business Manager will provide leadership, coordination and accountability across our key business support functions, including Human Resources, Administration, WHSE and Finance.
Working closely with the CEO, senior leaders and support teams, you will become the central point of coordination that helps ensure communication is clear, priorities are aligned, systems continue to improve, and important initiatives are delivered successfully.
This role is not about doing everything yourself. It is about leading people, strengthening accountability, improving processes, supporting teams and ensuring the business operates efficiently while maintaining the practical, down-to-earth culture that makes Bowhill Engineering a great place to work.
You will help create the systems, structure and leadership pathways needed to support sustainable growth while preserving the values and culture that have made Bowhill Engineering successful.
Key Responsibilities & Requirements
About You
You enjoy bringing order to complexity and helping people succeed.
You are practical, organised and commercially minded, with the ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on leadership. You communicate clearly, follow through on commitments and know how to achieve results through collaboration and accountability. You may come from a business management, operations, HR, finance, administration or leadership background. Most importantly, you understand how businesses operate and can bring people, systems and priorities together to achieve positive outcomes.
You will be:
Skills & Experience
What We Offer
Why Bowhill Engineering?
At Bowhill Engineering, culture matters. We value honesty, humility, teamwork, respect and doing what we say we’re going to do.
We are proud of the projects we deliver, the people we employ and the communities we support. This is an opportunity to step into a meaningful leadership role and help shape the next chapter of Bowhill Engineering while ensuring we continue to grow without losing what makes us unique.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted via our website
Why Choose Bowhill Engineering?
Bowhill Engineering continues to be proudly family-run and continues to provide the same commitment to its clients, who have expanded into industries including mining, water, defence, and commercial building, turning it from a local SA success story into an Australia-wide industry benchmark.
As established structural steel fabricators, we operate an impressive modern metal workshop facility in Bowhill and have worked on some of Australia’s most notable and complex structural steel projects. but still consider our services to the local community as our most important work.
We’re committed to developing the next generation through our boilermaker apprenticeship and metal fabrication apprenticeship programmes, supporting engineering apprentice pathways and traineeship in business administration opportunities.
Our team members average 5+ years of tenure. We’ve worked with over 40 apprentices & trainees who have completed their certificates and are now fully qualified, contributing as metal fabricators, fabricator welders, boilermaker welders, and skilled tradespeople across our operations.
– together we thrive!
Employee Assistance Programme
- $100 employee health assistance annually +
- EAP (Employee Assistance Program) – free confidential consultations for yourself and your family via Access Programs (Value $495)
- Culturise – Being Well at Bowhill staff program – quarterly personal & team development based program
Start & Relocation incentives
- Relocation Incentive OR
- Bowhill Accommodation Assistance (up to 6 months, 3 brm house available, accommodation shared as required) Talk to us about your relocation requirements
* conditions apply, as per personal requirements, subject to position applied for.
Reward & Recognition
- An employer of choice in our local region, wages are competitive, and performance based
- Permanency (6 month’s probation)
- Wage Reviews against industry benchmarks, and paid at above award rate, CPI & Bonus reviews 6 monthly
- Honour Roll – Years of Service recognition
- Wage Boost Incentives – $1k Recruitment incentives available to existing staff for recruitment of Metal Fabricators, Fabricator Welders, and Boilermaker Welders
Social
- BEERS – Bowhill Engineering Employees Recreational Social Club, regular in-house and external events, charity fundraising, Team lunch and Boweng brekky events
- Celebration Hour – monthly, early finish, recognition event of all the “good stuff” team and & personal
Career and training opportunities
- Career Advancement Opportunities – Workforce development plans including pathways from welder to senior fabricator roles
- Individual Growth & Development Opportunities – Individual Training Plans, Individual goals, P&E training, company role appreciation
- Leadership Growth – leadership development group, growing our next generation of leaders
- Regular Individual reviews for training & development opportunities
- Opportunities to progress into specialised structural steel engineering roles including metal fabrication, boilermaking, welding, and production coordination
Workplace Facilities
- 5 x workshop facilities, including our new state of the art Okuma CNC Milling Machine & IGM Welding Robots
- Outdoor balcony dining area
- Fully equipped Lunchroom with eight-ball tables
- Open door – Leadership & Management
Who are we?
Well, to summarise, we are a bit of a “BCF” kind of crowd really, we are country people that love to get outdoors and be active, spend time with our families, participate in local sporting groups and generally have a good time. Boating, camping, fishing, 4WDing, cars, bikes, river recreation… We love it!
Company culture
There is no better feeling than enjoying where you work, working with mates and working together to achieve the big picture!? We are super proud of who we work for, the projects that we achieve and the team that we have! Our retention rate is over 5+ years, a testament to the work that we put into our team in an ever-changing and competitive industry.
BEERS Social Club
A great, fun way to get to know the team! Whether it is tea at a local pub, go-karting, horse racing, or celebrating special events, these events are always fun and are held quarterly. Membership is a great value at only $5 per fortnight, and we love all of our team to be members.
Wellbeing & Staff Recognition
Aside from social club activities, we hold a number of in-house events, including Celebration Hour once a month, where we stop early and celebrate all the good stuff happening with drinks and nibbles as a team! We also have welcome lunches for new staff and morning teas to celebrate important events or dates such as Movember, Sids for Kids and more.
“Great place to work, they have supported, encouraged and met my work life balance requirements for my family for 10+ years, I enjoy the family team atmosphere”
“Family friendly atmosphere where collaboration and team-work are both encouraged and rewarding to all clients and employees”
“They really care and try hard to make it a great place to work. I feel my input is valued.”
“It’s more than just a business, its a family.”
“I enjoy working at Bowhill Engineering because of the good work life balance and the wicked blokes that I work with.”
“I really enjoy the variety of projects we get to work on. as well as the level of support I receive from all my peers.”
“The staff and beyond that make up the Boweng family are encouraging and supportive, not just to achieve work goals, but outside of work as well. I’m proud to be a part of it.”
“My experience at Boweng has been positive. The team is very professional, with a great team work culture and being welcomed into the team very quickly.”
“I like working with my mates and other good people.”
“I love working at Boweng because its such a positive team environment and everyone is always willing to helo you and set you up for success.”
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Group Tours
Bowhill Engineering offer opportunities for small group tours upon request ie Regional Schools, local interest groups, etc
Group Tour Request Form – Applications may be made to HR manager, Samantha Krollig via email: [email protected]
