Design Delivery Lead - Major Projects

Aurecon Group; Adelaide; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Aurecon Group in Adelaide is seeking an Associate, Design Manager to lead the Design Management team and actively shape major, multidisciplinary projects from planning through commissioning. You will coordinate architects, engineers, and contractors while guiding delivery strategy and client value propositions.

You will mentor the team, manage workloads, and maintain strong client relationships, influencing commercial outcomes and local capability growth within our Delivery Management practice.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading major, complex and multidisciplinary project teams within Buildings or similarly demanding environments.
• Strong Design Management, Project Engineering or integrated delivery experience with ability to develop scopes.
• Broad technical understanding across engineering and design disciplines, with ability to challenge assumptions.
• Senior client and stakeholder engagement experience with influence to navigate complex environments.
• Strong commercial and project governance capability across fees, budgets, programmes, resourcing, scope and risk.
• Demonstrated people leadership and mentoring experience across teams.
• Experience contributing to bids, pursuits and work winning through client insight and delivery credibility.
• A relevant qualification in engineering, architecture, project management, design management or related discipline.
• Adelaide market knowledge and local relationships will be highly regarded.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design management of major, complex and multidisciplinary projects from planning through commissioning.
• Establish project governance, scopes, packages of work, accountabilities, programmes, budgets and reporting.
• Coordinate architects, engineers, specialists, contractors and stakeholders, managing interfaces and risks.
• Provide day-to-day leadership for Adelaide's Design Management team, including workload planning and mentoring.
• Act as a senior escalation point for delivery, stakeholder and people matters.
• Build trusted relationships with senior clients and represent Aurecon in key project settings.
• Contribute to bids and pursuits by shaping delivery strategy, scope, fees, resourcing and value propositions.
• Take responsibility for commercial performance, including forecasting, scope management and risk.
• Collaborate with Practice Leader and discipline leaders to strengthen local delivery performance.

Skills

Design leadership

Project leadership

Client engagement

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Education

Engineering/Architecture/PM qualification

Tools

Budgeting

Planning

Job description

Aurecon Group in Adelaide is seeking an Associate, Design Manager to lead the Design Management team and actively shape major, multidisciplinary projects from planning through commissioning. You will coordinate architects, engineers, and contractors while guiding delivery strategy and client value propositions.

You will mentor the team, manage workloads, and maintain strong client relationships, influencing commercial outcomes and local capability growth within our Delivery Management practice.