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Are you a Senior Design Manager and have water or 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 Senior Design Manager to join our Infrastructure team in Adelaide to provide support to defence and water projects locally and nationally.

Position Overview:

The Senior Design Manager 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) and defence (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 Senior 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 or water 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 the heart of our business; they are what make us successful. That’s why we’re committed to creating conditions in which they can flourish and feel valued, so they can focus on doing what they do best.

Our Purpose

We are driven by our purpose of 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 to deliver innovative professional services for our customers.

We leverage our global network and work in seamless partnership with our customers to deliver innovative, creative and sustainable solutions that will make a lasting impact on communities around Australia.

Our Values

Everything we do at KBR is centred around our people, customers, and the communities that we strive to elevate. We work together as a OneKBR team of teams to drive our shared purpose and address our customers’ growing needs. The results we deliver are underpinned by our collective focus on excellence, passion for the people we work with and the innovations we create to deliver them.

We act with integrity and encourage our people to follow rewarding careers and empower them to strive for excellence and deliver the best results for our customers and communities. We are dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive work environments that uplift our people and help them to reach their full potential, while steering our business into the future.

Our Culture

We are a people company — great people doing great things, and we look for people who bring passion as well as technical excellence to their jobs as we believe every employee is integral to shaping the future of our business. 

That’s why we create conditions where everybody can flourish, and foster a culture of inclusivity, caring and learning that is driven by our shared purpose – to deliver infrastructure for a better tomorrow.

With the feel of an agile company and the capability of a large company, we encourage and give our people the autonomy to strive for opportunities that exist in all directions and equip them with the resources to become leaders of tomorrow.

Our Infrastructure Services business offers fulfilling careers with room to explore their creativity and regularly step up and swim outside of their lane. 

Learn more about Infrastructure Solutions Australia including who we are and what it is like to work at KBR https://kbr.foleon.com/is-australia/who-we-are/ 

In addition to working on some fantastic projects, KBR offer an array of benefits https://kbr.foleon.com/flex-work/magazine-copy-3/ focused on providing our people with a great working environment, continual career development, Family friendly flexible work arrangements and work/life balance

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KBR values an inclusive and diverse work environment, and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Our hiring decisions are based on the key requirements of each role and candidates are selected based on their unique strengths and experiences.