Senior Design Manager

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Due to continued growth in our Defence portfolio, we are excited to announce another opportunity for a Senior Design Manager to join our KBR Adelaide team.

Are you an experienced Design Manager with a track record of delivering projects within the Defence sector?

Do you currently hold, or have eligibility to obtain a Defence Security Clearance?

With new project wins and ongoing expansion in the Defence space, we are looking for a talented and driven Senior Design Manager to join our Infrastructure team in Adelaide and play a pivotal role in a key Defence project.

Position Overview:
As a Senior Design Manager, you'll be at the forefront of our engineering and design management activities. You will ensure that deliverables meet scope, cost, time, and quality objectives while fostering strong, trusted relationships with our clients.

Your success will come from your ability to collaborate effectively, build and maintain strong partnerships with your team and the customer, and apply your leadership skills to guide a diverse, multi-disciplinary team towards outstanding outcomes for both clients and stakeholders.

Skills & Experience Required:

Extensive infrastructure engineering & design experience, ideally within the Defence sector.

Proven experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams with a focus on people leadership.

Experience working under a Defence Design Services Contract and/or Managing Contract.

Strong communication skills with the ability to engage effectively at all levels.

Highly developed stakeholder management skills, both internal and external.

Strong scope awareness in complex project environments.

Must be an Australian Citizen and the ability to obtain Defence clearance.

Why Join KBR?

Our people are the heart of our business; they are what make us successful. That's why we're committed to creating conditions in which they can flourish and feel valued, so they can focus on doing what they do best.

Our Purpose:

We are driven by our purpose of Together, delivering infrastructure for a better tomorrow. Our results and reputation for excellence are underpinned by our people and our culture of caring, collaboration learning and trust to deliver innovative professional services for our customers.

We leverage our global network and work in seamless partnership with our customers to deliver innovative, creative and sustainable solutions that will make a lasting impact on communities around Australia.

Our Values:

Everything we do at KBR is centred around our people, customers, and the communities that we strive to elevate. We work together as a OneKBR team of teams to drive our shared purpose and address our customers' growing needs. The results we deliver are underpinned by our collective focus on excellence, passion for the people we work with and the innovations we create to deliver them.

We act with integrity and encourage our people to follow rewarding careers and empower them to strive for excellence and deliver the best results for our customers and communities.

Culture:

We are a people company — great people doing great things, and we look for people who bring passion as well as technical excellence to their jobs as we believe every employee is integral to shaping the future of our business.

With the feel of an agile company and the capability of a large company, we encourage and give our people the autonomy to strive for opportunities that exist in all directions and equip them with the resources to become leaders of tomorrow.

Infrastructure Services business offers fulfilling careers with room to explore their creativity and regularly step up and swim outside of their lane.

In addition to working on some fantastic projects, KBR offer an array of benefits focused on providing our people with a great working environment, continual career development, flexible work arrangements and work/life balance

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Science & Technology More than 10,000 employees

We are a company of innovators, thinkers, explorers and dreamers who all share one goal — to improve the world.

KBR delivers science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 33,000 people performing diverse, complex, and critical roles in 33 countries.

KBR and its heritage companies are proud to have delivered over 60 years of support to some of Australia's largest and most complex projects.

With over 2,000 employees in 6 offices throughout Australia , we are committed to social and environmental sustainability and delivering projects with a digital mindset driving innovation within our business and for our customers.

We are a company of innovators, thinkers, explorers and dreamers who all share one goal — to improve the world.

KBR delivers science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 33,000 people performing diverse, complex, and critical roles in 33 countries.

KBR and its heritage companies are proud to have delivered over 60 years of support to some of Australia's largest and most complex projects.

With over 2,000 employees in 6 offices throughout Australia , we are committed to social and environmental sustainability and delivering projects with a digital mindset driving innovation within our business and for our customers.

Perks and benefits Flexible working Competitive salary (including annual reviews) Paid parental leave Corporate rewards Salary packaging/novated leasing Health Career development Defence reservist leave

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