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Design Manager

Lucid Consulting Australia 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Full-time Manager

Lead multidisciplinary engineering design teams and manage internal teams and external subconsultants across Defence projects. Coordinate project delivery, client and stakeholder relationships, budgets, programmes, scopes of work, technical reports, and project documentation.

Responsibilities

  • Lead multidisciplinary engineering design teams and manage internal teams and external subconsultants across Defence projects. Coordinate project delivery, client and stakeholder relationships, budgets, programmes, scopes of work, technical reports, and project documentation.

Requirements

  • Candidates should have experience delivering infrastructure projects in the Defence sector or a similarly complex environment, along with design management or comparable project leadership experience. Strong stakeholder and client relationship skills, experience managing multiple projects and technical documentation, commitment to professional development, Australian citizenship, and eligibility for an AGSVA Baseline Security Clearance or higher are required.

Key Skills

Design leadership Design management Team leadership Project management Stakeholder management Defence engineering design Technical reporting Budget management Program coordination Scope definition Agile methodology Risk management Documentation Cross‑functional collaboration Communication Mentoring Strategic planning Security clearance processes Client relationship management Procurement

About Lucid Consulting Australia

At Lucid, our purpose is simple: creating a better world. We exist to help clients navigate complexity, design responsibly, and build lasting value, for their projects, their communities, and the generations to come. Our vision is to be Australia’s most forward-thinking, agile, and influential engineers and asset advisors. Together with our clients, we design solutions that are as considered as they are effective, clear, creative answers to complex problems. Less assumption. More assurance. Less uncertainty. More Lucid action. As an employee-owned business, we take pride in showing up with clarity, curiosity, and a genuine commitment to doing better — together.

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