Engineering Design Manager

Lycopodium Limited; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Career progression and technical skill

Discounts on retailers in Australia

Maternity leave 18 weeks + superannum

Professional memberships coverage

Job summary

Lycopodium Limited in Melbourne seeks an Engineering Design Manager to lead design management across projects. You will oversee design and drafting activities, ensure compliance with quality, safety and environmental standards, and drive on-time delivery for major studies.

The role requires extensive mining / mineral processing experience, strong leadership, and the ability to coordinate multidisciplinary teams across site and office environments. Travel within Australia may be required.

Qualifications

• Tertiary education in Engineering (Mechanical or equivalent).
• Minimum 15 years’ experience in mineral processing or related industries (gold, base metals, ore, lithium preferred).
• Strong written and verbal communication and supervisory skills.
• Ability to manage budgets, time constraints and client relationships.
• Willingness to travel within and outside Australia.
• Intuitive leadership and change management in a complex environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering designs and solutions on schedule with high accuracy.
• Monitor and support engineering/drafting team performance.
• Coordinate multi-discipline design and drafting resources to meet deliverables and budgets.
• Approve drawings, standards, specifications and procedures.
• Contribute to proposals with design scope, budget, and schedule input.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder comms

Quality control

Risk management

Education

Engineering degree (Mechanical)

Job description

With offices in Australia, Canada, USA, Southern Africa, Ghana, Philippines, Argentina and Peru, Lycopodium proudly delivers high-quality professional engineering and project delivery services globally, across the resources, infrastructure and industrial processes sectors. By joining our global team and learning from renowned subject matter experts, we can offer you a diverse career that could take you anywhere in the world.

Due to a growing level of secured studies and projects we are looking for an Engineering Design Manager to join our Melbourne team.

Reporting to the Group Manager - Projects, you will lead design management activities in consultation with all project stakeholders to ensure that standards of technical compliance, quality, cost, safety, sustainability and environmental performance are observed and that time schedules are met.

The tasks you'll perform

• Consistently provide engineering designs and solutions within agreed milestone dates and to a high standard of accuracy and professionalism.
• Monitor the progress and performance of the engineering / drafting team, giving input and providing feedback and support where necessary.
• Coordinate the multi-discipline design and drafting resources assigned to allocated tasks to achieve agreed deliverable dates and man-hour budgets.
• Design approval of drawings, standards, specifications and procedures.
• Provide technical support and input to proposals, customer presentationsthrough preparing design scope, budget and schedule for written proposals.

The expertise you'll bring

• Relevant tertiary education qualifications in Engineering (Mechanical or equivalent).
• Minimum of 15 years’ experience in mineral processing or related industries -gold, base metals, ore or lithium preferred.
• High attention to detail and exceptional knowledge across a broad range of disciplines with excellent written, communication and supervisory skills.
• Demonstrated commitment to providing high-quality service to Clients within budget and time constraints while building and sustaining positive relationships with all stakeholders.
• Extensive understanding of mine operation challenges, expectations, requirements and risk management process.
• Willingness to do occasional travel (within and outside Australia).
• Intuitive leadership skills with the ability to initiate, lead and manage change in a complex environment.

The benefits we'll provide

Lycopodium has a strong company culture focused on career progression and technical skill development. You can expect to be involved in a wide range of large projects whilst working amongst a team of highly skilled professionals.

We recognise that everyone is different and needs may change over the course of your career. That’s why we :

• Invest in our people for the long-term, building a diverse and rewarding career, mentored by the best in the industry.
• Allow our people to balance work with other commitments, like family or study, offering flexible work arrangements.
• Provide access to a benefits, rewards and recognition platform that also offers great discounts to hundreds of retailers in Australia.
• Provide employees with a variety of additional benefits such as coverage for professional memberships, 18 weeks full paid company maternity leave + superannuation continuance, discount and rewards programs, and much more.

Lycopodium is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering diversity and maintaining a discrimination free workplace, guided by our core values of Respect, Integrity and Diligence.

As part of our commitment to providing the best possible care and service to you the candidate, we commit to respond to every applicant.