HDR has appointed Tim Napper as its Defence Principal in a move that fortifies the company’s defence capability at a critical juncture for the Department of Defence, following this year’s Strategic Review.

Working between Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra, Tim will lead HDR’s growing defence team and will be supported by its senior leadership team. This comrpises Stuart Aslett, Maurice Valentinuzzi, Alex Wessling, Huey Moo, Brendan Grayson, Michael Shelley and Design Principal Simon Fleet, who will continue to play an instrumental role in delivering design excellence. 

“With a cohort of emerging talent rising up the ranks, and an interconnected global defence, science and technology exchange, we can truly operate at the cutting-edge of design to deliver human-centred solutions that solve some of Defence’s most critical challenges and build workforce attractiveness,” Tim says.

With 20 years of experience, Tim joins HDR from the Department of Defence, where he was a project director in the Capital Facilities and Infrastructure Branch and delivered a multibillion-dollar portfolio of infrastructure projects and programs in Australia, the Middle East and Papua New Guinea. 

Tim’s notable projects include the $3.1-plus billion Garden Island Redevelopment Subprogram, $1.3 billion Armoured Fighting Vehicles Facilities Program, and the $425 million Mosul Dam Remediation Program.