Steve Rouse

Steve Rouse is a senior engineering executive with four decades of experience delivering complex industrial infrastructure across Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East and South East Asia. During his tenure as Managing Director of Babbage Australia, he has overseen the delivery of more than A$2 billion in major capital projects, building the firm’s Melbourne practice into a respected specialist in large-scale process engineering and capital works management. His career spans senior operational and engineering roles with Fonterra in New Zealand, the founding of his own engineering consultancy in 1998, and leadership of seven major construction programmes in New Zealand. Earlier, he served eight years as an officer in the Royal New Zealand Army Engineers. Steve holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Auckland and a Postgraduate Diploma in Dairy Science and Technology.