Senior Design Manager
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Senior Design ManagerAre you a Design Manager with civil and defence industry experience?
Do you enjoy combining your project management/design manager experience to mentor and develop teams?
Due to continued growth and project wins we are looking for a Design Manager experienced in Civil Infrastructure to join our Defence Infrastructure team in Adelaide to provide support to our critical defence projects locally and nationally.
Position Overview:
As a Design Manager you will drive the delivery of projects and programs of work within our defence sector (buildings and infrastructure). The delivery of these programs is focused on achieving great customer and community outcomes by leaving a positive, long-lasting legacies wherever we work.
Key Responsibilities:
Through accurate forecasting of time, cost and quality outcomes the Design Manager will work with the customer to make evidenced based decisions that consider multiple risk factors to ensure they are managed appropriately.
Responsibilities will focus on ensuring the delivery of early stage detailed designs across 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.
Skills & Experience Required:
Bachelors degree or equivalent qualification.
Extensive infrastructure engineering & design experience, defence project experience highly regarded.
Demonstrable experience leading and developing a multidisciplined engineering teams with a focus on people management.
Demonstrable project management skills in cost, schedule, risk and change management.
Strong communication skills and the ability to communicate with people at all levels.
Strong stakeholder management skills both internal and external.
Strong scope awareness in a complex project environment.
Eligibility for Defence Security Clearance highly desired
Why Join KBR?
Our people are important to us, and you will play a key role in contributing to the success of our business. We believe in empowering our employees and nurturing their development within a culture of trust. This role will provide you with the opportunity to step up and grow. We will encourage and empower you to work in a way that suits your style and look forward to discussing how we can achieve success together.
Our Purpose:
We are driven by our purpose: Together, delivering infrastructure for a better tomorrow. Our results and reputation for excellence are underpinned by our people and our culture of caring, collaboration, learning, and trust. We deliver innovative professional services for our customers, leveraging our global network and working in seamless partnership with them to create sustainable solutions that make a lasting impact on communities across Australia.
Our Values:
Everything we do at KBR is centred around our people, our customers, and the communities we strive to elevate. We work together as OneKBR, a team of teams, to drive our shared purpose and address our customers’ growing needs. The results we deliver are built on our commitment to excellence, our passion for the people we work with, and the innovative solutions we create.
Our Infrastructure Services business offers fulfilling careers with opportunities to explore creativity, take on new challenges, and strive for excellence in delivering the best results for our customers and communities.
Our Culture:
We are a people company—great people doing great things. We seek individuals who bring both passion and technical excellence to their roles because we believe every employee plays a vital part in shaping the future of our business.
In addition to working on fantastic projects, KBR offers an array of benefits focused on providing our people with a great working environment, continuous career development, flexible work arrangements, and work-life balance.
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