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Senior Design Manager

Downer 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Onsite Full-time Senior

The Senior Design Manager will lead and coordinate multidisciplinary engineering design services across major power transmission, substation, and renewable energy projects. They are responsible for overseeing design delivery throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring compliance, safety, and alignment with commercial objectives.

Responsibilities

  • The Senior Design Manager will lead and coordinate multidisciplinary engineering design services across major power transmission, substation, and renewable energy projects. They are responsible for overseeing design delivery throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring compliance, safety, and alignment with commercial objectives.

Requirements

  • Candidates must hold a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical, Civil, Structural, or a related discipline and possess over ten years of experience in power transmission and substations. Chartered Professional Engineer status or equivalent registration is highly regarded, along with a strong understanding of EPC and design-construct delivery models.

Benefits

  • Health and wellness benefits
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Retail discounts
  • Structured career paths

Key Skills

Leadership Multidisciplinary engineering design Project lifecycle management Compliance management Safety standards EPC delivery models Design‑construct delivery Stakeholder coordination Electrical engineering Civil engineering Structural engineering Risk management Commercial alignment Team management Communication Problem solving Strategic planning Quality assurance Regulatory knowledge Mentoring

About Downer

Enabling communities to thrive. It’s what we’ve done for more than 150 years. Solving problems. Making the extraordinary run smoothly every day. We’re keeping the lights on and the water flowing. Running the hospitals that take care of us. Delivering the transport that takes us from A to B. Maintaining communication networks that keep people connected. Helping our Government and Defence customers keep them protected. Delivering train fleets. Building bridges, roads and streets. Now we’re building momentum too. Moving forward even faster. Across Australia and New Zealand, we’re transforming the way we work. Unlocking our potential to lead by example. Using our passion and expertise to deliver complex projects and turn fresh ideas into solutions that make society a better place. Creating opportunities for our people, growth and value for our shareholders, and world-class solutions for our customers. Imagining. Innovating. Engineering. Enabling.

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