Principal Design Manager

7 months ago


Brisbane, Australia Jacobs Full time

Our People & Places Solutions business - reinforces our drive to improve the lives of people everywhere and epitomizes the "why" of what we do - the tremendous positive impact and value our solutions bring to our communities and society as a whole. From facilities delivering life-saving therapies and ensuring clean water to enabling the connection of people through all modes of transportation and providing access to technology - we're integrating a multitude of these solution elements to build the smart environments of tomorrow._
- Start your Jacobs career with a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow._

**Your Impact**:
We have an exciting opportunity to join our fun loving, sociable Water Infrastructure team. We have an exciting pipeline of work, and we are delivering the most sought-after water infrastructure projects in Australia and New Zealand. As a result, we are growing ostensibly and regularly collaborate with our Australian peers for both learning and project work. We will encourage and support your career journey with a flexible work environment and exciting range of projects and challenges to work on.

Jacobs is rare within the water industry in that we use a global team of experts to deliver local projects. Our team regularly work with our specialists over in the USA, Europe and elsewhere. There are not many projects we deliver using only Australia-based resources, working for Jacobs means access to this global expertise and world leading innovation.

The power of Jacobs is that we do almost everything - we even work with NASA. That means if there’s a complex problem you are faced with, there’s always someone helpful within our 50,000 strong team you can call on for advice.***

**Your Impact**

We are looking for a talented and driven design managers to join our Water Infrastructure section in Brisbane. This is a key role in our group to actively deliver successful outcomes for our clients and to successfully deliver our projects.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a world-leading global business with a strong local pipeline of programs and projects. The current opportunities are based in Brisbane however, you will be joining a truly connected ANZ Water Solutions business who provide the full suite of consulting services from advisory and engineering through to operations and asset management.

Our water infrastructure team in Brisbane includes program managers, project managers as well as civil, electrical, instrumentation and control, mechanical, process, and structural engineers which allows us to deliver entire projects within our water group. We also work across the project cycle from strategic consulting, master planning, concept design and optioneering, through to detailed design, commissioning, and operational support.

The Jacobs water business has water infrastructure and water resources capability in every major city around Australia working across a multitude of markets such as Utilities, Government, Transport, Resources, and Energy Transitioning to name a few.

**You will be responsible for**:

- Providing leadership of project design teams to deliver excellent projects that meet our clients’ expectations, by coordination of our professionals, engineers, subconsultants and subcontractors.
- Supporting business development, winning work, identifying the next opportunities and successful closure of opportunities. You will assist in the preparation of bids and proposals, as well as leading bids within your capabilities and expertise.
- Developing and maintaining strong key client relationships - acting as a trusted advisor to a select group of Jacobs key clients across the public and private sector.
- Managing the Delivery of technically excellent designs that meet our clients’ expectations, project financial, scope, project risk and schedule outcomes. You will support the project managers, section leadership and technical leaders in delivery of technically excellent outcomes that benefit our client’s business objectives.
- Assisting project managers in the delivery of commercially successful projects that achieve Jacobs financial objectives, and our contract obligations, including effective change and risk management.
- Promoting a safety culture within the organisation, and with our clients.

**Here’s What You’ll Need**:

- Relevant tertiary qualifications in engineering. Maintains professional body accreditation.
- Significant design management experience with water infrastructure projects including water treatment, wastewater treatment, networks (water & sewer) and/or bulk water systems.
- Proven experience leading multi-disciplinary design teams in the delivery of water infrastructure projects.
- Experience and capability in design management across the following project types:

- Strategic infrastructure planning, needs analysis and problem/benefit definition
- Business ca



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