Design Manager Defence, Australia

Candidate Specification

About you

You will enjoy a challenging role and find accomplishment in developing your own team. An infrastructure professional with experience working in complex defence design projects, across the lifecycle of infrastructure project development and delivery. You will be a leader who demonstrates our values, has the energy and confidence to network, build teams and win work. You will also bring the following to our team:

• Excellent communications skills and experience in external and internal stakeholder management
• Professional qualifications and experience relevant to design management, architectural or engineering. Chartered status required or ability to obtain.
• Recent Defence project experience in either Design, PMCA or Managing Contractor
• Australian citizenship and holding, or be able to successfully obtain, and retain a minimum Australian Government Baseline Security Clearance
• Develop and support more junior team members

Our values, culture, and benefits

And it's not just rhetoric when we say we are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We are committed to fostering a culture that empowers our people, fosters teamwork, and embraces sustainability. We value the diversity of our staff and are committed to creating an inclusive work culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work. Some of our benefits include:

• State of the art office and end of trip facilities
• Agile working
• Competitive salary and group bonus incentive scheme
• Life, personal accident, and salary continuance insurance
• Options to purchase additional annual leave
• Social events and company outings

Job Description

We have an enviable global Defence pedigree, working on iconic projects across the UK, Europe, the Americas and Australia. We are rapidly expanding to support sovereign Australian Industry Capability, with a long-term commitment to support the ADF through innovation and delivery excellence for the capability and sustainment of the Defence industry.

The opportunity

As a Senior Design Manager, your primary focus will be to identify, win and deliver new defence projects across South Australia, while supporting the national design delivery team. This role will appeal to someone who thrives in identifying solutions for our clients, strong stakeholder management and understanding and being accountable for their successful delivery. This includes a strong understanding of commercial and financial success, ensuring contract terms and risk mitigations are put into practice and ensuring projects are sufficiently resourced to deliver success. This is a challenging opportunity to oversee the day-to-day coordination of projects and development and execution of project plans and programming.

Contract Type

Permanent

Discipline

Consultancy

Job Profile

You've got this!

This is a great opportunity to join a growing consultancy that is pushing ahead in its local markets. If you are looking for an opportunity to work in a fast-growing business that is shaping the communities in which we live, then we would encourage you to apply for the above position and join us.

Recruiter Contact

Karen Graham

Website Region

Australasia

Website Sector

Buildings

Sector

Built environment

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Work pattern

Full time