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Design Manager

Shape Australia 🇦🇺 Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

Full-time Manager

Lead design from project briefing and concept through documentation, delivery, and construction, coordinating architects, engineers, consultants, clients, and project teams. Support bids and tenders, protect design intent, and identify buildability and value management improvements while monitoring design quality.

Responsibilities

  • Lead design from project briefing and concept through documentation, delivery, and construction, coordinating architects, engineers, consultants, clients, and project teams. Support bids and tenders, protect design intent, and identify buildability and value management improvements while monitoring design quality.

Requirements

  • Applicants need tertiary qualifications in Design, Architecture, Engineering, or Construction and at least five years of experience in commercial construction, design, or architecture. They should be able to interpret specifications and construction drawings, manage consultants and design delivery, lead stakeholder engagement, communicate collaboratively, and take a proactive, solutions-focused approach.

Benefits

  • Additional Paid Leave
  • Career Development
  • Flexible Work Arrangements
  • Profit-Sharing Potential
  • Health and Wellbeing Benefits
  • Mental Health Support
  • Fitness Activities
  • Annual Flu Vaccinations
  • Discounted Health Insurance
  • Parental Leave
  • Social Events

Key Skills

Design leadership Project briefing Concept development Design documentation Construction documentation Coordination with architects Coordination with engineers Consultant management Client liaison Project team collaboration Bid and tender support Design intent protection Buildability analysis Value management Design quality monitoring Stakeholder engagement Construction drawing interpretation Specification interpretation Team leadership Problem‑solving Proactive solutions Communication Project management Agile or design process knowledge Mentoring junior staff

About Shape Australia

We’re a national fitout and construction services specialist driven by diverse capability, local impact, sector experience and a people-focused company culture. We’re for shaping spaces — for building with people in mind and our team has been doing it for more than 30 years. We believe success starts from the inside out. It’s our eye for detail and commitment to quality from three decades of delivering interior fitouts and refurbishments that provides us with a unique skillset to undertake any type of construction project across the commercial, education, retail, defence, hospitality and health sectors. More importantly, it’s why we invest in our people who, in turn, invest in you. Whether you work with us or for us, we’re about building people up, forming great relationships, and looking after each other and the world around us. It’s what creates lasting impact on our clients and the people that experience their spaces for years to come. It’s why our partners choose to work with

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