Design Manager - Infrastructure

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. We work with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources to deliver outcomes that improve people’s lives. By transforming challenges into opportunities and complexity into success, we deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset, and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero, and digital solutions. As a majority-owned subsidiary of CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, we leverage our partnership to provide clients with premier programme, project, and cost management services globally.

Join us and be part of a team that is committed to excellence and innovation. Visit our website: https://www.turnerandtownsend.com.

• Client-Side Leadership: Lead design management for large scale complex building and civil projects, overseeing multiple interfacing projects within live environments.
• Stakeholder Coordination: Facilitate design reviews with multiple stakeholder groups ensuring alignment with client expectations.
• Design Governance: Manage design approvals and endorsement processes, ensuring compliance with project standards and timelines.
• Consultant Oversight: Direct and coordinate external design consultants, ensuring deliverables meet quality and scope requirements.
• Public-Facing Projects: Apply your experience in customer-facing public buildings to deliver functional, user-centered design outcomes.
• Client Office Presence:  Work on-site in the client’s Brisbane office, fostering strong relationships and real-time collaboration.

• Relevant Degree: Tertiary qualification in Architecture, Interior Design, or Engineering is essential.
• Client-Side Experience: Proven experience as a client-side design manager, ideally within complex brownfield projects.
• Strong Design Sensibility: Ability to interpret and guide design intent with clarity, creativity, and attention to detail.
• Effective Communicator: Clear, articulate, and confident in presenting ideas and following through on feedback.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Skilled in managing diverse stakeholder groups and navigating complex approval pathways.
• Personal Attributes: Organised, independent, tenacious, and a collaborative team player with a high level of initiative.

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV’s that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list. Any speculative or unsolicited CV’s will be treated as a direct application.

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time. 

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

#LI-TT1

#LI-Hybrid 

Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects: 

Twitter

Instagram

LinkedIn

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time. 

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.