Principal, Design

**Employment Type**: Permanent Full Time
**Position Classification**: Health Mgr Lvl 5
**Remuneration**: $166,678 - $186,448 plus super and leave loading
**Hours Per Week**: 40
**Requisition ID**: REQ610224

**About the opportunity**

This is an exciting opportunity to join Health Infrastructure as our Principal, Design. You will play a critical role in shaping how we embed best-practice design across the capital works program. You’ll lead the implementation of our Design Assurance program and provide expert advice to capital project teams and our Executive Leadership Team; manage the relationship with NSW Government Architect and our industry design partners. The role ensures that HI capital projects are delivered in accordance with the _Design Guide for Health_ (GANSW, April 2023) and aligns with HI’s Strategic objectives. This role is a unique opportunity to influence design quality and performance, drive continuous improvement, and guide strategic relationships.

Please note that as Health Infrastructure is an organisation of NSW Health, the successful applicant must reside in NSW or be willing to relocate if appointed. This recruitment may be used to create a Talent Pool for similar future roles (ongoing or temporary) that may arise over the next 18 months.

**This position is being re-advertised, and previous applicants need not apply.**

**About you**

You are an accomplished design leader with extensive expertise in the planning, design and delivery of complex capital infrastructure, ideally with a strong background in health services facilities. You combine technical knowledge of design standards and certification requirements with practical experience influencing built design outcomes across planning, design, and delivery stages for our health capital projects.

You enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, guiding teams through complex problems, and shaping processes that drive improved outcomes.

**It is essential that you have a degree in Architecture or a degree that is recognised by the NSW Architects Registration Board.**You must also be registered with the NSW Register of Architects.**Applicants without evidence of registration will not be invited to interview for the role**.

**About us**

Health Infrastructure is delivering one of the largest health capital programs in the country, with $12.4 billion committed by the NSW Government over the next four years. Our forward pipeline includes significant projects such as the New Bankstown Hospital, Rouse Hill Hospital, and upgrades at Westmead, Wollongong and Dubbo, along with regional redevelopments and ambulance stations. We are focused on accelerating delivery, embedding design excellence, and advancing environmental sustainability, while continuing to work closely with clinicians, communities and industry partners to deliver high-quality, patient-centred buildings and facilities across NSW.

**About what’s important to us**

At Health Infrastructure, we are committed to cultivating a workplace culture where diversity, inclusion and flexibility is part of the norm. To find out more about Health Infrastructure’s values and ways of working, click **here**.

**Want to know more?**

1. Please click **here** for a copy of the role description.
- Upload an up-to-date **resume**(max 3 pages)
- Upload a **cover letter** (max 2 pages) outlining how you meet the role requirements and capabilities as specified in the role description.

**Target questions**:
**Q1.**Describe a time when you led design on a large infrastructure project or program, preferably for health facilities. What was your role, how did you manage competing stakeholder expectations, and what was the outcome for the project or program?

**Q2.**Give an example of how you influenced or implemented design innovation or continuous improvement across a capital works project. How did you align your approach with organisational goals and industry standards?

**Applications close 11:59pm Wednesday, 8 October 2025