John McGuire

John McGuire is Aurecon's Chief Innovation Officer. In this role, he is responsible for leading Aurecon's Innovation and differentiation programme globally.

Prior to this, John was Aurecon's Global Industry Director for Manufacturing. He was directly responsible for leading Aurecon's strategy, direction, growth and sophisticated client offerings for Aurecon’s global manufacturing business.

The manufacturing sector is undergoing a major structural shift worldwide as it moves from mass production systems to those of customised goods and services dependent on supply chains with global reach. This shift places demand on manufacturers to become technologically rich to connect to the world of their customers.

John is an experienced business leader, offering over 25 years of experience in consulting and contracting in Australia, the Middle East and the United Kingdom. He has been involved in a wide range of projects, specifically in health care, forensic and specialist containment laboratories and is highly regarded and recognised for his creative and innovative design approach to engineering and project leadership.

John was most recently Global Director (Health) – Building Systems with AECOM, where he was responsible for the growth and development of the health market sector internationally across all of AECOM’s geographies in the Building Engineering business line, as well as its development across all practice lines in the Asia Pacific region.

He is a periodic guest lecturer in building environmental design at Schools of Architecture in both the University of Western Australia and Curtin University.