Design Manager

Join our team of intelligent and collaborative Changemakers and make your mark on tomorrow In this role, you’ll work in our Water Business Group as a Design Manager.

This is your chance to drive the future ready engineering design solutions and be responsible for leading the delivery of high-quality design delivery on water infrastructure projects in SA, VIC, QLD, NSW and TAS.

**Design Manager, Water**:
Our Water team takes a holistic and sustainable approach to managing the use of water resources. We support governments, investors, developers, manufacturers, utilities, and corporations by mitigating risks, meeting regulatory requirements, reducing the cost of water use and disposal, as well as creating strategies for a sustainable future.

**What you'll do**:

- Deploy risk management principles & methodologies into project systems and processes.
- Accountable for business and project delivery as required to lead the delivery of high-quality design delivery on project.
- Work in partnership with other design organisations in Alliance or JV.
- Management of design team and interfacing with contractor workforce.
- Seek design team resources for each project. The ultimate responsibility for providing resources lies with the business section executive.
- Prepare design fee estimates for both the “tender design phase” and the “delivery phase” of each project.
- Liaise with other key roles of the Alliance or JV.
- Manage the overall delivery of designs to time, budget and quality. You’ll also manage Engineering governance processes (design reviews, change management, request for information, validation and verification, etc., related to the design.)
- Management of design team and interfacing with contractor workforce.

**About you**:

- Recognised Bachelors degree in Civil, Mechanical, Chemical (Process) or Electrical engineering
- Relevant (Water) industry experience.
- Demonstrated high level of technical knowledge.
- Strong experience in working in partnership with other design organisations in Alliance or JV. Skilled in managing conflicts between organisational cultures and business systems demands
- Extensive experienced in owning and being responsible for signing off on design. Delivered designs that meet legal requirements, quality standards and client outcomes on projects.
- Established and managed complex design processes and systems in high profile projects
- Proven competency in project management.
- Demonstrated leadership and management ability.
- Demonstrated sound technical knowledge.
- Able to juggle multiple tasks across several projects across the business unit.
- Basic knowledge of contracts or drafting variations desirable.
- Knowledge and experience in cost reporting, analysis, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word essential.

**About WSP**:
Our vibrant workplace culture is an important part of what makes this a great place to work. It is supported by our Guiding Principles:

- We value our people and our reputation.
- We are locally dedicated with international scale.
- We are future focused and challenge the status quo.
- We foster collaboration in everything we do.
- We have an empowering culture and hold ourselves accountable.

WSP prioritises the health and wellbeing of our people by offering flexible working, 12 months parental leave, opportunities for global mobility, purchased additional leave, and competitive remuneration among many more benefits designed to help you shine. We are committed to providing an inclusive, diverse and equal opportunity workplace. We promote Indigenous voices and are actively delivering a ‘Stretch’ level Reconciliation Action Plan. Accredited by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency as an Employer of Choice, we also support the LGBTQI+ community, and encourage all employees to bring their whole selves to work.

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