About the role:
Our Design Managers lead the engineering design of innovative, sustainable water and wastewater infrastructure for customers and communities across Australia.  Delivery of fit-for-purpose design of essential assets such as desalination plants, water and wastewater treatment plants, pumping stations, and associated works.  

Often running concurrent multiple multi-disciplinary design teams, Design Managers ensure designs overcome challenges within budget and time in developing bespoke solutions to meet Client requirements.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead the design process from concept through commissioning, ensuring alignment with project delivery, Client specifications and stakeholder requirements
• Manage and mentor members of our multidisciplinary internal design team
• Identify and scope for site investigations and authority supply inputs to the design
• Coordinate external authorities, consultants and suppliers to deliver integrated design solutions
• Champion innovation whilst proactively manage design risks, approvals, and changes to maintain project budget and schedule
• Oversee the comprehensive documentation of the design process, generating deliverables in accordance with contract requirements
• Coordinate and facilitate design safety workshops, meetings and investigations to ensure designs meet project quality, safety and environmental requirements
• Undertake engineering calculations and reviews, internal squad checks, drafting reviews and closing out of client comments to submissions

About you:
Our ideal candidate will be passionate about leading the design of water industry infrastructure to deliver high quality infrastructure solutions for each unique project. A collaborative mindset is essential, as this role leverages strong relationships across internal teams and external stakeholders.

You will bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, meeting Engineers Australia Competency Standards Stage 2 for Professional Engineers
• Excellent communication skills including verbal and written communication with substantial experience at chairing meetings, safety in design workshops and report writing
• Demonstrated experience in a design management of water infrastructure ideally for Australian projects in Australia
• Strong knowledge of regulatory compliance and design standards
• Experience in managing design budgets, schedule, resources, external consultants, internal and external stakeholders and documentation to ensure design excellence within budget constraints
• Track record of integrating innovative design solutions including new-to-market technologies.
• Ideally include experience in Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) processes to develop solutions for clients and lead collaboration among consultants, authorities, and project stakeholders will be highly regarded.

About Guidera O’Connor
From desalination plants providing clean water to Australian communities, to treatment facilities that return wastewater safely to the environment, Guidera O’Connor designs and delivers tailored solutions that make a real difference to people’s lives.
Guidera O’Connor designs, constructs, and commissions:

• Water treatment plants
• Pumping stations
• Chemical dosing systems
• Filtration
• Odour control
• Desalination plants
• Aquifer storage and recovery
• Reuse systems.

We work with customers across Australia, including:

• Water authorities
• Local government
• Mining and resources companies
• Private asset owners
• Head contractors
• Engineering organisations.

Our business is founded on five guiding principles: Care, Integrity, Passion, Respect, and Future, each of which inform our collaborative, innovative, solutions-focused approach.
More than infrastructure, we deliver value, creating the systems that make safe, clean water possible for people and communities across the country, now and into the future.

Our benefits    

Guidera O’Connor offers a generous range of benefits to our employees, including:

• Lunch provided each day
• Additional annual leave for service milestones and 15 days personal leave each year
• Excellent employee referral bonus
• Company-funded wellbeing program supporting your health and wellbeing goals
• Paid parental leave and cultural leave
• Fortnightly pay
• Regular recognition and celebration of success.

Our commitment to diversity, inclusion, and belonging:

At Guidera O’Connor we respect and value a diverse, inclusive, and belonging workplace.  We strongly encourage applications from people of all genders, ages, and cultures.
We are committed to reconciliation action and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people for all positions.
Further, we are committed to real progress toward gender equity in the engineering and construction industry and strongly encourage applications from female candidates for all positions. 

Join us!!
Please apply online. 
For more information about this opportunity, reach out to our recruitment team at careers@goc.net.au
Please note applications will only be accepted from candidates who have the right to work in Australia.