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Design Manager

Aurecon 🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Onsite $120,000 - $150,000 Full-time Senior

Lead multidisciplinary teams to deliver complex infrastructure and defence projects from planning to completion. Coordinate architects, engineers, and subconsultants while managing project interfaces and quality assurance processes.

Responsibilities

  • Lead multidisciplinary design delivery across buildings and defence-related projects
  • Coordinate architects, engineering disciplines and specialist subconsultants to achieve integrated project outcomes
  • Drive design coordination, technical reviews and quality assurance processes
  • Manage project interfaces, risks and delivery priorities across complex stakeholder environments
  • Conduct site investigations, assessments and project coordination activities
  • Collaborate with clients and internal stakeholders to manage project interfaces and delivery outcomes

Requirements

  • Experience leading multidisciplinary project teams across complex buildings or infrastructure projects
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management capability
  • Design coordination, delivery management or project leadership experience
  • Commercial awareness and ability to balance competing priorities
  • A proactive, solutions-focused mindset
  • A desire to grow within a collaborative, high-performing team environment

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on technically challenging, nationally significant projects
  • Collaborative, high-performing team environment
  • Investment in personal growth and development
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • Inclusive workplace initiatives and wellbeing programs

Key Skills

Design coordination Delivery management Project leadership Communication Stakeholder management Commercial awareness Problem-solving Collaboration Time management Risk management Quality assurance Technical expertise in engineering or architecture

About Aurecon

Aurecon is a design, engineering and advisory company. Our purpose is bringing ideas to life, to imagine and co-create with our clients a better future for people and the planet. Our culture of Believe it. Say it. Do it. reflects our deep commitment to our clients and each other to build trust and create a better future together. We are a team who place eminence, digital and innovation at the core of all we do. Our strength lies in how we bring together our design, engineering and advisory capabilities to provide our clients with integrated solutions across the entire asset lifecycle. From shape and plan – design and deliver – operate and optimise – to close and transform. Aurecon designers, engineers, scientists and advisors work with our clients across markets and asset types, to tackle some of the world’s most complex challenges. We are an owner managed company with a strong presence across Australia, New Zealand, and Asia. To learn more about what we have been up to visit our

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