Electrical Design Manager

Company Description
**At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.**

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team - 47,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

**Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.**

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion - a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.

When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts - planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers - leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future. Join us and let’s get started.

**Job Description**:
Our Energy business are currently looking for a Design Manager to work within our Transmission and Distribution team who has exceptional knowledge of primary systems and Australian clients, project frameworks and standards.

This is a diverse role which will enable a proven Design Manager to engage in highly technical projects, while leading and mentoring a team of professional engineers in a multidisciplinary, global engineering consultancy.

**Qualifications**:
As a Design Manager in our Transmission and Distribution team you will be responsible for workload coordination and resource scheduling for the delivery of high-profile, complex projects.

In this diverse and exciting role, you will assist leading and mentoring a team while contributing towards business development activities in respect of building client relationships, scanning for opportunities, keeping abreast of local markets and disciplines, development of capture plans and preparation of high-quality bids.

This is an opportunity to partner with our clients and lead our engineers in major design delivery while operating in a diverse role, which will generally require the Design Manager to have the following:

- Relevant qualifications in Design Management or Engineering, such as a Bachelor of Engineering;
- A passion for industry, driven towards mentoring and leading engineers in diverse project sectors and enjoys sharing ideas to work collaboratively with clients and team members;
- Excellent knowledge of transmission, distribution and generation within primary systems and plant;
- Demonstrable experience operating as Design/ Project Manager for major projects, to deliver on client and project financial, time and quality expectations.
- Proven commitment to collaborative, ethical behaviour in a client-facing environment;
- Strong capability in managing design projects autonomously while working closely with clients as a key advisor in design management, planning and procurement, scheduling, financial management and risk management;
- Excellent oral and written communication skills including the ability to develop comprehensive reports and submissions.

**Preferred Qualifications**
- Exposure to multidisciplinary engineering consultancies strongly preferred, but not essential.
- Proven background in leading and managing specialist Engineering teams, advantageous.

Additional Information

The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) recognises AECOM as taking a sophisticated, holistic approach to supporting women and men’s participation throughout our workplace.

We provide a diverse and inclusive work environment and offer many benefits to ensure your professional development & wellbeing.
- Flexible start and finish times, working from home, part time and job share options;
- Work-from-home equipment packages and assistance;
- Diverse, challenging and exciting multidisciplinary engineering projects;
- State of the art, modern and contemporary office