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Design Manager

Fulton Hogan 🇦🇺 Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Full-time Manager

Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary design delivery across water and wastewater infrastructure projects, ensuring solutions are practical, buildable, compliant, and aligned with construction and client requirements. Manage design governance, stakeholders, risks, quality, budgets, approvals, and changes, and support commissioning and handover with complete technical and asset documentation.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary design delivery across water and wastewater infrastructure projects, ensuring solutions are practical, buildable, compliant, and aligned with construction and client requirements. Manage design governance, stakeholders, risks, quality, budgets, approvals, and changes, and support commissioning and handover with complete technical and asset documentation.

Requirements

  • Requires a bachelor's degree in civil engineering or a related engineering discipline and current RPEQ registration, along with proven design management experience in water and wastewater infrastructure. Candidates should understand Australian and SEQ standards, deliver constructable and cost-effective designs, manage programs and commercial priorities, and demonstrate collaborative leadership and strong communication skills.

Benefits

  • Training, Leadership, and Mentoring Programs
  • Flexible Working Arrangements
  • Corporate Health and Fitness Programs
  • Health Insurance Discounts
  • Personal Banking Support
  • Retailer Discounts
  • Paid Primary Carers Parental Leave
  • Paid Secondary Carers Leave
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Purchase Leave Policy

Key Skills

Design Management Civil Engineering Water Infrastructure Design RPEQ Registration Stakeholder Management Design Governance Risk Management Budget Management Quality Assurance Compliance with Australian Standards SE Queensland Standards Collaborative Leadership Strong Communication Project Scheduling Construction Documentation AutoCAD Team Coordination Problem Solving Agile Project Delivery Mentoring

About Fulton Hogan

Fulton Hogan has more than 90 years’ experience delivering transport, water, energy, mining and land development infrastructure across New Zealand, Australia and the South Pacific. We help create communities from the ground up, starting with our own network of quarries, supported by our asphalt, emulsion and precast plants. We are proud to be a family company – one that cares about communities and those who live and work in them, including our customers, suppliers and our own team. Our team of more than 10,000 people helps to create, connect and care for communities by building the roads, ports, airports, infrastructure and property that bring people together and keep them moving.

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