Design Integration Lead – Infrastructure Engineering

Interface Agency Australia; New South Wales; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Interface Agency Australia is seeking a Principal Design Engineer: Design Integration in Western Sydney, NSW. The role is full time with permanent status and performance incentives, reporting to design engineering leadership within a large infrastructure and utilities setting.

You will connect civil, structural, electrical, substations, and powerline engineers, driving governance, standards, and collaborative ways of working.

Qualifications

• Background in large scale infrastructure; substation experience highly valued.
• A civil, structural or electrical engineering qualification (or equivalent); flexible on discipline.
• A track record of improving processes, breaking down silos or building governance frameworks, not just delivering to spec.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, and the confidence to hold experienced engineers accountable without formal authority over them.
• A commercially minded approach; consultancy backgrounds are well suited, understanding the value of time and outcomes, not just activity.
• Genuine curiosity; comfortable asking questions, speaking to people across the business, and building a case for change based on evidence rather than assumption.

Responsibilities

• Acting as the connective tissue between design disciplines: civil, structural, electrical, substations, powerlines, getting engineers who typically work in silos to collaborate, share timelines and hold each other accountable
• Leading a gap analysis in your first six months: where the business is today, where the industry is heading, and what that means for standards, tools and ways of working
• Challenging existing design processes and legacy ways of working, freeing engineers up to focus on genuinely high value work
• Supporting the uplift of technical standards, governance and procedures required to bring large scale infrastructure delivery in house
• Mentoring and developing engineers at all levels, including creating space for junior engineers to spend part of their week on innovation and process improvement
• Benchmarking against how other leading infrastructure organisations design, govern and deliver, and bringing that thinking back into the team
• Building genuine, lasting improvements to how the team works: this is a role with scope to leave a legacy, not just deliver a project

Skills

Stakeholder management

Cross-disciplinary leadership

Governance & frameworks

Curiosity & questioning

Commercial mindset

Education

Civil/Structural/Electrical engineering qualification

Job description

Interface Agency Australia is seeking a Principal Design Engineer: Design Integration in Western Sydney, NSW. The role is full time with permanent status and performance incentives, reporting to design engineering leadership within a large infrastructure and utilities setting.

You will connect civil, structural, electrical, substations, and powerline engineers, driving governance, standards, and collaborative ways of working.