Design Manager

About the role

We are currently looking to recruit an experienced Design Manager. This is a fantastic opportunity to become a senior member of our enthusiastic, established and successful team based in our Brisbane office. You will be an integral part of the business and wider design and estimating team, liaising with and managing clients and key stakeholders whilst working along side the project management teams until the end of a project.

As a Design Manager at McNab you will be expected to:

• Plan and program the design process effectively to ensure all stakeholders act in a timely manner.
• Identify, coordinate and drive consultants to complete detailed design and documentation within specified timeframes.
• Challenge consultants appropriately and act with flexibility and curiosity to come up with effective design solutions and find efficiencies in design.
• Identify and recommend cost effective construction strategies and methodologies, incorporating them into the design.
• Ensure compliance and contractual obligations are met throughout the process and within design.
• Manage client relationships with integrity and fairness, influencing the outcomes you need to ensure effective design.

About you

You will have a passion for design with a commercial mind and have an opportunity to influence the business moving forward. You will also have:

• Tertiary qualifications in Design or Construction coupled with extensive experience in a Design Management role.
• A strong commercial awareness and ability to identify cost efficiencies through design.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills.
• An ability to identify and manage risk.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships.

About McNab

McNab is one of the largest Construction, Development and Property groups in Australia, with turnover now exceeding $1bn each year. Despite our growth and size, we've never lost our small company DNA - which centres around genuine care for our staff, customers and all our stakeholders. Success for us isn't about awards or growth, it's when we deliver so well that our customers are proud to wear a McNab T-Shirt on weekends!

We genuinely care. We make it easy. We deliver certainty.

This is our promise - to our clients, and everyone we deal with. Delivering on these three things really, really well is what drives us at McNab. Everything we do, from recruiting and training to performance and promotion, centres around this promise.

We leverage the entire McNab Group to deliver certainty for our clients at a time of unprecedented uncertainty in the industry. And our approach works. From delivering our own property developments, to manufacturing our own building products, and a plethora of aligned businesses, your career at McNab goes well beyond traditional construction roles.

McNab benefits:

• Birthday leave.
• Annual health and fitness subsidy.
• Parental leave program.
• Access to the Employee Assistance Program.
• Internal development opportunities through tailored training programs.

This is an outstanding opportunity to build a strong career with a reputable construction company that genuinely cares about the development of all staff - if this is something you want to be a part of APPLY NOW!