Senior Design Manager - Complex Construction Projects

DCOH; Adelaide; On-site; AUD 130,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

DCOH, Darwin-based, seeks a Design Manager to lead and coordinate the design process across all project phases, ensuring compliant, coordinated, buildable and commercially aligned design outcomes.

You will head multidisciplinary design teams, manage project design programmes, approvals and QA, driving value engineering while maintaining schedule certainty and on-site execution quality.

Qualifications

• Eight to 12 years or more of design management experience within construction or major projects
• Advanced ability to interpret, review and integrate architectural and engineering documentation
• Proven leadership, negotiation and stakeholder management capability
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and industry-standard document control platforms (Aconex, Revizto, Bluebeam)

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the end-to-end design process from concept through to construction and handover
• Establish, implement and maintain the Design Management framework across the division
• Establish and manage project-specific Design Management Plans, including design scope, deliverables, responsibilities and review gateways
• Provide design leadership aligned with project objectives, construction methodology, procurement strategy and commercial drivers
• Coordinate architectural, structural, civil and building services disciplines into fully integrated design solutions
• Establish and manage design programmes to achieve key milestones, statutory approvals and construction issue dates
• Lead design workshops, coordination meetings, user group sessions and value engineering activities
• Lead the engagement, novation, briefing and management of design consultants, monitoring their performance against programme, quality and contractual requirements
• Act as the primary interface between consultants, internal project teams, subcontractors, authorities and clients on design matters
• Oversee HSEQ-in-Design processes and ensure sustainability requirements and targets are embedded, documented and verified
• Ensure design outcomes align with project budgets, cost plans and procurement strategies, including value engineering and variations
• Oversee design document control and quality assurance while mentoring and building capability of Design Coordinators

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Tertiary qualification in Architecture/Engineering/Construction Management

Tools

Aconex

Revizto

Bluebeam

MS Office

Job description

DCOH, Darwin-based, seeks a Design Manager to lead and coordinate the design process across all project phases, ensuring compliant, coordinated, buildable and commercially aligned design outcomes.

You will head multidisciplinary design teams, manage project design programmes, approvals and QA, driving value engineering while maintaining schedule certainty and on-site execution quality.