Design Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and technical guidance to the design team.
• Represent FRTP in design and technical meetings.
• Manage, integrate, and coordinate all disciplines contributing to the design.
• Oversee constructability and cost estimating activities.
• Hold overall responsibility for the quality of all design packages and DEWA deliverables, including quality system implementation, appropriate resourcing, issue identification, and correction.
• Undertake functional and technical reviews and signoff of Design Packages prior to release.
• Act as the day-to-day client interface at a project level.
• Oversee Document Controller in consultation with the Digital Engineering Manager.
• Appoint and approve staff in consultation with the PLT.
• Authorize design changes in accordance with the Delegations of Authority (DOA).
• Attend meetings with stakeholders and third-party reviewers as appropriate.
• Develop and maintain productive relationships with the CJV Technical Director and key stakeholders (e.g. TI Corp liaison).
• Participate in value engineering as required.
• Attend project leadership team meetings.
• Maintain Technical Register, including non-conformances and design departures.
• Ensure adherence to the Project Design Management Plan and Quality Management Plan.
• Identify lessons learned and continuous improvement actions, and provide to Discipline Leads and Package Owners as necessary.
• Provide guidance and assistance to Discipline Leads and Package Owners for the resolution of complex technical issues and comment responses.
• Support the resolution of technical issues with the client, where escalation is required from Discipline Leads and Package Owners.
• Provide assurance that the technical design scope adheres to the quality management systems and processes.
• Review and monitor extreme technical risks alongside the Quality and Risk Manager to ensure technically derived risks are appropriately managed.
• Drive communication of client requirements, consistency, and coordination between design packages and Environmental disciplines.
• Identify inputs required for Technical Reviews for preparation by Discipline Managers and Team Leaders.
• Maintain awareness of design scope, ensuring that works are not undertaken outside of scope, and escalate scope changes to the Senior Project Manager and Commercial Manager when requested.
• Accountable for program-wide deliverables and coordination with relevant Discipline Leads.
• Complete Release Certificates for formal design issues for approval by the Senior Project Manager.
• Ensure comments raised by the independent verification team are resolved in a timely manner.
• Identify opportunities for innovation.
• Provide guidance and support to Discipline Leaders.
• Manage WHS and Environmental issues in the design process.
• Manage project risks.
• Ensure efficient project delivery.

Required Experience and Qualifications

• Proven experience in the delivery of technical aspects of major infrastructure design and documentation.
• Extensive engineering management experience.
• Principal level qualifications in area of primary responsibility.
• Collaborative and Design & Construct (D&C) contract delivery experience.
• Major project experience.
• Demonstrated experience in the coordination and management of complex technical requirements and interfaces.