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Design Manager - Defence and Secuirty

Mott Macdonald 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Full-time Manager

The Design Manager will lead the resourcing, coordination, and delivery of design packages across a portfolio of Estate Works Program projects. They are responsible for managing programme, scope, budget, and design quality while ensuring compliance with safety standards and client requirements.

Responsibilities

  • The Design Manager will lead the resourcing, coordination, and delivery of design packages across a portfolio of Estate Works Program projects. They are responsible for managing programme, scope, budget, and design quality while ensuring compliance with safety standards and client requirements.

Requirements

  • Candidates must have demonstrated experience in design management, engineering delivery, or multidisciplinary project coordination within complex infrastructure or Defence environments. Applicants must be Australian citizens capable of obtaining a baseline security clearance.

Benefits

  • Flexible and agile work atmosphere
  • Competitive salary
  • Discretionary group and personal performance bonuses
  • Life and salary continuance insurance
  • Option to purchase extra annual leave
  • Employee resource groups
  • Employee ownership model

Key Skills

Design management Engineering delivery coordination Multidisciplinary project coordination Infrastructure design Defence sector experience Program management Scope management Budget management Design quality assurance Safety standards compliance Client requirements management Australian security clearance Stakeholder communication Team leadership Risk management AutoCAD Revit Civil 3D Microsoft Project Agile frameworks

About Mott Macdonald

We are an engineering, management and development consultancy and one of the largest wholly employee-owned firms of our kind. We plan, design, deliver and maintain the transport, energy, water, defence and security, and buildings infrastructure that is integral to people's daily lives. Our core strength is using our expertise to overcome complex challenges to deliver benefits for our clients and the communities they serve.

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