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Design Manager – Head Contractor – Data Centre Projects

Amida Group 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Onsite Full-time Manager

Lead and coordinate design activities from design development through IFC and construction, ensuring deliverables align with project milestones, requirements, standards, and approvals. Manage consultants and stakeholders, resolve coordination and buildability issues, and support coordinated building services and mission-critical infrastructure delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and coordinate design activities from design development through IFC and construction, ensuring deliverables align with project milestones, requirements, standards, and approvals. Manage consultants and stakeholders, resolve coordination and buildability issues, and support coordinated building services and mission-critical infrastructure delivery.

Requirements

  • Requires a relevant tertiary qualification and proven design management experience on large-scale commercial, industrial, or complex building projects, preferably with a Tier 1 or Tier 2 head contractor. Candidates should have strong design coordination, consultant management, project delivery, Australian codes and standards, and stakeholder communication experience; data centre experience is ideal but not essential.

Key Skills

Design development IFC documentation Construction coordination Project milestone alignment Design standards compliance Regulatory approvals Consultant management Stakeholder coordination Buildability issue resolution Building services integration Mission‑critical infrastructure delivery Australian building codes Project delivery Design coordination Construction documentation Technical coordination Risk management Team leadership Communication Problem solving Data centre knowledge BIM Construction scheduling Quality assurance Contract administration Multidisciplinary teamwork Client liaison Design reviews

About Amida Group

Amida is a group of recruitment and staffing companies with a contemporary, service orientated, values driven approach. We recruit talented professionals for the Property, Engineering, Construction, Renewables, Sustainability and Health & Safety sectors. We connect people with great companies both locally and globally using a professional but personable approach.

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