Design Manager

CBRE, Inc.; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

WORK180 Endorsed Employer

Top Employers 2025

Parental leave

Discounted healthcare

Qantas flights

Fitness Passport

Wellbeing initiatives

Employee assistance programs

Job summary

CBRE Asia Pacific is seeking experienced Design Managers at Director, Manager and Advisor levels to join a high-profile client-side advisory team on a landmark residential precinct project in Queensland. You will provide design governance across large-scale delivery and collaborate with senior stakeholders to ensure successful project outcomes.

This role offers career-defining exposure, opportunities to influence design decisions, and integration with CBRE's Development & Infrastructure

Qualifications

• Experience in design management, design assurance or client-side delivery.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Commercial awareness and ability to identify and manage project risk.
• Collaborative approach to influence project outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Provide client-side oversight of design delivery across major high rise residential projects.
• Review design outcomes, risks and programme impacts.
• Support design governance, approvals and reporting activities.
• Monitor design interfaces and coordinate key stakeholders.
• Provide commercial and strategic advice to clients on design-related matters.
• Contribute to successful project delivery across multiple concurrent workstreams.

Skills

Design management

Stakeholder engagement

Risk management

Construction delivery understanding

Job description

• Design Manager | Major Queensland Residential Development Program
• Permanent & Contract Opportunities
• Director, Manager & Advisor Levels

One of Queensland's most significant residential development programs is underway, and CBRE's Development & Infrastructure team is expanding to support its delivery. We're seeking experienced Design Managers at Director, Manager and Advisor level to join a high-profile client-side advisory team working on a landmark residential precinct project.

The Opportunity

Working within a client-side program environment, you'll provide design management, governance and advisory expertise across large-scale residential delivery packages. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a long-term, career-defining project while collaborating with senior stakeholders, industry experts and delivery partner.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide client-side oversight of design delivery across major high rise residential projects.
• Review design outcomes, risks and programme impacts.
• Support design governance, approvals and reporting activities.
• Monitor design interfaces and coordinate key stakeholders.
• Provide commercial and strategic advice to clients on design-related matters.
• Contribute to successful project delivery across multiple concurrent workstreams.

About You

We're interested in professionals from architecture, engineering, urban design, or related disciplines who bring experience working on major residential, mixed-use or precinct developments.

You Will Demonstrate

• Experience in design management, design assurance or client-side project delivery
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Commercial awareness and the ability to identify and manage project risk.
• A collaborative approach and the confidence to influence project outcomes.
• Understanding of large-scale development and construction delivery.

What's In It For You?

• Work on one of Queensland's most significant residential development programs.
• Exposure to senior client stakeholders and major project delivery.
• Genuine career growth within CBRE's Development & Infrastructure business.
• Recognised as a WORK180 Endorsed Employer and one of WORK180's Top Employers 2025.
• Industry-leading parental leave, discounted healthcare and Qantas flights, Fitness Passport, wellbeing initiatives and employee assistance programs.
• Access to global expertise, learning opportunities and career pathways with the world's largest commercial real estate services firm.

Can we inspire you to join us?

At CBRE, our unwavering commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion begins with you. We are strengthening our inclusive culture, so everyone feels safe, valued, and heard. We are proud to be certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace in Australia. We encourage you to share any support and adjustments you need to participate equitably in our recruitment process. We welcome and encourage First Nations People to apply.

Applicant Ai Use Disclosure

We value human interaction to understand each candidate's unique experience, skills, and aspirations. We do not use artificial intelligence tools to make hiring decisions, and we ask that candidates disclose any use of AI in the application and interview process.

About CBRE Group, Inc.

CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE: CBRE), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Dallas, is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm and a premier provider of critical infrastructure services. The company has more than 155,000 employees serving clients in more than 100 countries. CBRE serves clients through four business segments: Advisory (leasing, sales, debt origination, mortgage servicing, valuations); Building Operations & Experience (facilities management, property management, flex space & experience, critical infrastructure); Project Management (program management, project management, cost consulting); Real Estate Investments (investment management, development). Please visit our website at www.cbre.com .

Role type: Full-time

Location(s): Brisbane - Queensland - Australia