Design Manager

7 days ago

Matraville, New South Wales, Australia KBR Full time $200,000 - $250,000 per year

Title:

Design Manager

We support water customers across Australia to provide our communities with the best drinking water and wastewater treatment services, whilst innovating ways to safeguard and secure our country's water supplies, elevating public spaces and enhancing livability.

The Opportunity

KBR's Water business has grown significantly over the past few years, to help support this growth, we are looking for an experienced Design Manager from the water industry. This is a key role for our business and will drive the delivery of large projects and programs of work across water, wastewater, treatment plants, chemical dosing, hydrogen and desalination. The delivery of these programs is focused on achieving great customer and community outcomes by leaving a positive, long-lasting legacies wherever we work.

Through accurate forecasting of time, cost and quality outcomes the Design Manager will make evidenced based decisions that consider multiple risk factors to ensure they are managed appropriately.

The Design Manager's responsibilities will focus on ensuring the delivery of complex design projects across the engineering lifecycle, you will work with multi-disciplinary engineering, environmental, safety and sustainability.

You will be accountable for leading, supporting and empowering a highly skilled group of people, generating the opportunity for staff to grow. Communicating readily with clients and key stakeholders to ensure a collaborative approach will be key.

Who are you?

The ideal candidate will have extensive Design Management/Project Management skills in cost, schedule, risk and change management. It is expected that you will have a tertiary qualification in Engineering or related degree, significant industry experience will also be considered.

You will have the ability to manage large, complex projects and/or programs of work with multiple stakeholders in challenging environments. You will lead and develop teams using your interpersonal skills and proven ability to communicate effectively both in writing and verbally.

It is expected that you will have exposure to both Design and Project Management in FEED or detailed design with major water utilities. Strong communication, stakeholder management skills along with change leadership experience will be highly regarded.

Some of your key responsibilities will include:

  • Being a role model in leading the culture and values of the KBR business, this is a driving factor behind our success
  • Supervision and well-being leadership of staff assigned to the projects and/or bids through peer and/or subordinate leaders or direct management.
  • Commitment to meeting the undertakings of KBR HSE and Quality Policies.
  • Deliver projects on time, within budget and quality parameters with the objective of client satisfaction.
  • Develop marketing strategies and plans and manage the preparation of proposals (including those of national significance).
  • Ensure projects are executed in accordance with KBR Integrated Management System and quality requirements

Who are we?

KBR's Infrastructure Services Australia business offers a wide range of professional services to private and public sector clients delivering projects in both urban and remote environments across transport, water, environment, buildings and defence.

We address critical water cycle challenges and provide solutions through adopting flexible program delivery models and ongoing asset management programs. KBR have significant work in hand supporting key water utilities such as Sydney Water, Water NSW, Sydney Desalination Plant, SA Water, Urban Utilities and Melbourne Water to achieve phased savings in capital expenditure, while delivering the best environmental and community outcomes.

At KBR, we value you – here's how.

While our people are busy delivering leading science, technology, and engineering solutions, we're committed to providing them with a supportive, trusting environment and benefits that enable them to thrive and continue doing what they do best.

Other benefits include:

  • Industry leading salaries reviewed annually.
  • 20 Days Leave per year + an additional day off every 4 weeks (33 days in total)
  • Salary packaging and Novated leases
  • Paid professional membership fees.
  • Life/Health insurance discounts
  • Flexible work arrangements (start/finish times, WFH, Flex time)
  • Employee stock purchase plans
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Personal Career development plans
  • Growth and promotion opportunities

Help shape tomorrow by applying today

For further information please call Julian Bettiol, Talent Lead,

Don't miss out on this opportunity to leave your impact on our society with one of Australia's leading infrastructure businesses. Apply now and follow us on LinkedIn to stay up to date with all the latest news and job opportunities.

  • Civil Engineer

    7 days ago

    Matraville, New South Wales, Australia KBR Full time $90,000 - $120,000 per year

    Title:Civil EngineerWe support water customers across Australia to provide our communities with the best drinking water and wastewater treatment services, whilst innovating ways to safeguard and secure our country's water supplies, elevating public spaces and enhancing liveability.The OpportunityYou'll be a key member of our Water team who have secured...

  • Administration Officer

    3 days ago

    Matraville, New South Wales, Australia Sydney Indoor Plant Hire Full time $60,000 - $90,000 per year

    This role would suit someone with excellent organisation and communication skills (both verbal & written) , who enjoys variety in their daily work (Office All-Rounder). The successful applicant should have great computer skills and experience in operating all Microsoft software (Excel, Word & Outlook) to support our adminstration & marketing team. Someone...

  • Industry Lead

    7 days ago

    Matraville, New South Wales, Australia KBR Full time $120,000 - $180,000 per year

    Title:Industry Lead - MaritimeAbout UsKBR is a global business employing approximately 35000 employees worldwide and is made up of some of the best and brightest minds. We are multi-disciplinary and constantly evolving, delivering some of the world's most complex projects in engineering, science, and technology.In Australia our focus is Infrastructure...

  • SG049G: Sales Adv

    2 weeks ago

    Matraville, New South Wales, Australia FedEx Full time $104,000 - $130,878 per year

    This Advisor will support the APAC Sales and Solutions SVP in executive updates, coordination, as well as APAC sales enablement strategy & planning. This role involves preparing high-impact executive reports and presentation , managing cross-functional, regional and global collaboration, and ensuring efficient execution of the APAC commercial growth...

  • SG049G: Sales Adv

    2 weeks ago

    Matraville, New South Wales, Australia FedEx Australia Full time $104,000 - $130,878 per year

    This Advisor will support the APAC Sales and Solutions SVP in executive updates, coordination, as well as APAC sales enablement strategy & planning. This role involves preparing high-impact executive reports and presentation , managing cross-functional, regional and global collaboration, and ensuring efficient execution of the APAC commercial growth...

  • Design Manager

    7 days ago

    Matraville, Australia KBR Full time

    **Title**: Design Manager **We support water customers across Australia to provide our communities with the best drinking water and wastewater treatment services, whilst innovating ways to safeguard and secure our country’s water supplies, elevating public spaces and enhancing livability.** **The Opportunity** KBR’s Water business has grown...

  • Franchise Development Manager

    7 days ago

    Matraville, Australia Megasealed Bathrooms Full time

    Megasealed has an exciting opportunity for a full time Franchise Development Manager, to join our management team in Sydney. Reporting to the National Franchise Manager, you will be responsible for supporting the franchisees in all aspects of the Megasealed Franchise Program including business support, compliance obligations and to provide guidance on...

  • Annual Work Program

    5 days ago

    Matraville, Australia KBR Full time

    **Title**: Annual Work Program (AWP) Manager **Title**: Annual Work Program (AWP) Manager **At KBR - We do things that matter.** We deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 38,000 people worldwide with customers in more than 80 countries and operations in over 29...

  • Social Media

    5 days ago

    Matraville, Australia sent studio Full time

    We’re sent., a modern day candle brand with two goals in mind: to create amazing smelling candles that do good for our planet. We launched in September 2021 with some of the most unique scents on the market (think black tea, creamy coffee and cereal) and are the first in Australia to offer a one-of-a-kind scent service. We’re looking for a creative and...

  • In-house Ads Specialist

    7 days ago

    Matraville, Australia sent studio Full time

    We’re sent., a modern day candle brand with two goals in mind: to create amazing smelling candles that do good for our planet. We are the first in Australia to offer a one-of-a-kind scent service and we create some of the most unique scents on the market (think black tea, creamy coffee and cereal). **We’re looking for someone who will**: - Develop and...

  • Nlis Application Specialist

    3 days ago

    Matraville, Australia KBR Full time

    **Title**: NLIS Application Specialist **Title**: NLIS Application Specialist **Your KBR future - delivering solutions and changing the world **About KBR**: Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) is a leading Defence and Government professional services provider. In Australia, KBR has been delivering solutions to Defence and Defence industry for over 20 years. We...

  • Digital Engineering Coordinator

    2 weeks ago

    Matraville, Australia KBR Full time

    **Title**: Digital Engineering Coordinator **Join us, on the journey.** We are renowned for working in partnership with our clients and construction partners to deliver exceptional outcomes based on our collaborative approach and our “One Team” value. In Australia, KBR employ over 1000 people with offices in each state. Our project delivery track...

  • Digital Transformation Specialist

    1 week ago

    Matraville, Australia KBR Full time

    **Title**: Digital Transformation Specialist **Your KBR future - delivering solutions and changing the world** **About KBR**: We are a company of innovators, thinkers, creators, explorers, volunteers and dreamers who all share one goal — to improve the world. We deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around...

  • Office Coordinator

    2 weeks ago

    Matraville, Australia Spare Staff Full time

    **Spare Staff **is hiring **Office Coordinator** for **King Turf** **How to Apply**: Application can be submitted on this link for review: **About us**: Our co-founder team is an excellent combination of synthetic grass installation and smart business development. We have experience working in the synthetic grass market for 10 years. Together we have...

  • Bid Administrator

    2 weeks ago

    Matraville, Australia KBR Full time

    **Title**: Bid Administrator The Bid Administrator plays a key role in supporting the end-to-end development of proposals and tender submissions across the business. Working under the guidance of senior bid team members, this role is responsible for coordinating and formatting submission documents, managing content libraries (including resumes and project...