Design Manager

5 days ago


Adelaide Region SA, Australia Aurecon Group Full time

Just imagine your future with us.

Aurecon is committed to creating an inclusive culture that embraces diversity, equity and inclusion - and we provide our people with flexible working opportunities.

We believe diverse teams enable us to solve our clients' and society's most complex problems in unconventional and distinctive ways. We offer flexible working as it enables all of our employees to balance work and life in way that works for them.

Aurecon is an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality, as awarded by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (Australia), and are a founding member of The Diversity Agenda in New Zealand. We also have a Reconciliation Action Plan and hold Silver Employer status in the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTI+ inclusion. Across our company, inclusive leadership is role modelled from the top and is an expectation of all.

Our flexible way of working includes our YesFlex flexible start and finish times, work from home policy, part time and job share options. Aurecon also offers 14 weeks paid parental leave, three weeks paid partner leave, and other health services and benefits.

If you think you’d be a good fit, we’d love to hear from you. We welcome people from all background and with diverse accessibility needs. We’re curious about your career path and how we can support you to be your best.

The Role

We are now seeking a highly motivated Design Manager to join our Transmission and Distribution (T&D) team in SA. Using your strong technical background, commercial acumen and stakeholder management skills you will lead the technical delivery of small to large scale projects.

This role will see you working closely with a multi-disciplined engineering team of Substation, Transmission and Secondary Systems Engineers.

What will you do:

- Managing a team of engineers and multi-disciplined engineering interfaces
- Responsible for accurate and timely submission of scoping of works and tender proposals
- Ensures governance and delivery as per Aurecon Project Methodology
- Negotiation of variations, claims and commercial disputes
- Take personal accountability in project team’s actions to delivering a successful quality and safe project deliverables.
- Ability to provide some construction support where required for design constructability

What we are looking for:

- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering
- Understanding of substation design and transmission line design
- Ability to demonstrate experience and successful delivery of projects in the energy sector

We value the difference each team member brings and we look for people who have had a broad range of experiences and a growth and learning mindset.

We’ve re-imagined engineering.

Aurecon is an international engineering, design and advisory company, but not as you know it

Drawing on our deep pool of expertise, we co-create innovative solutions with our clients to some of the world’s most complex challenges.

We listen deeply and intently, which helps us see opportunities, possibilities and potential others can’t. Think engineering. Think again.

Want to know more?

You can learn more about what it’s like to work at Aurecon by visiting the careers section of our website.


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