Design Manager Permanent / Full Time

Design Manager
  
SYDNEY
Full time, permanent 
Salary and package negotiable                                            
  
Embark on an exciting journey as a Design Manager at a leading Australian-owned design consultancy. You’ll have the opportunity to lend your exceptional engineering expertise to ambitious projects, shaping the future of our built environment. This is a chance to make a lasting impact while thriving in a creative, supportive, and genuinely friendly team culture at the studio in Sydney.
  
About the Company
  
Join this Australian-owned, interdisciplinary design practice and lead a small, specialist design team, working on award-winning projects with tier-one clients in a creative, supportive and genuinely friendly team culture. Operating at the intersection of architecture and product design, they design structures not as static installations but as dynamic systems. By applying the precision, innovation, and mechanical thinking of product design to architectural challenges, they create spaces that move, adapt, and perform in ways traditional architecture can’t achieve.

The Role

• Spearhead the delivery of high-profile, award-winning operable architecture projects
• Collaborate with visionaries and delivery partners to transform bold ideas into sustainable, enduring, and commercially sound outcomes
• Be a driving force in an interdisciplinary design practice, where you’ll work on transformative projects that redefine cities and communities
• Responsible for the end-to-end delivery of design projects, from concept development to detailed design, procurement, assembly, installation, and commissioning
• Manage the development and approval of design concepts, specifications and budgets, as well as the coordination of the design, manufacturing, and installation of all project-related products
• Develop and manage procurement strategies to improve company operations, including payment term negotiations and purchasing strategies
• Ensure staff resources are managed effectively during project execution, prioritising staff health and safety
• Manage the financial reporting obligations for all projects and develop and maintain client/supplier/manufacturer relationships

Skills and experience

You will be a self-starter who can motivate and influence others to drive better
outcomes. With high energy and a hands-on approach, you will have a sharp attention to detail, ensuring nothing slips through the cracks. Strong interpersonal skills and a natural ease with client relationships is key for this role, as is the ability to work confidently both independently and within a team.

• A degree or higher in Mechanical or Mechatronic Engineering disciplines, or a related field
• A minimum of 15 years’ experience in mechanical engineering design, or design consultancy, with a demonstrated ability to deliver large-scale projects from concept to completion (architectural projects, operable architecture an advantage)
• Exceptional communication skills (written and verbal) and the ability to present to senior stakeholders
• Proficiency in either SolidWorks or Onshape
• Exceptional understanding of manufacturing and material opportunities

  
Benefits

• Leading design consultancy
• High-profile projects, tier-one clients
• Supportive team culture

  
N.B. You must possess full, unrestricted and ongoing rights to work in Australia to be eligible for this role.