Townsville’s Hanran set to fill key role at AECOM

LEADING Townsville engineer Shayne Hanran is continuing the city’s outstanding contribution to the executive ranks of AECOM’s Australian operations.

Mr Hanran, currently the global infrastructure firm’s area director of North Queensland and Northern Territory, has been appointed regional managing director for North Western Australia overseeing nine offices and more than a 1000 staff in Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia.

He is the third Townsville graduate of James Cook University to take an executive role at AECOM, which is based in Brisbane, following Richard Barrett, now executive general manager for operations Australia and New Zealand, and more recently Todd Battley, who became AECOM’s CEO last year.

Mr Hanran has extensive experience in project management, design and construction and also holds positions on the board of the Port of Townsville and the advisory board for Engineering at James Cook University.

Mr Hanran joined AECOM in 1991 as a design engineer.

He will relocate with his family from Townsville to Brisbane.

The company says a suc- cessor to Mr Hanran in Townsville is hoped to be appointed before the end of the year.

AECOM designs, builds, finances and operates infrastructure in more than 150 countries.

A Fortune 500 firm, it had revenues of $ 18.2 billion in 2017.