Design Manager

6 months ago

Auckland City, New Zealand Downer Group Full time

**Te** **kōwhiringa | The Opportunity**

Downer is a significant player in the telecommunications industry within New Zealand. From cities to rural communities, from the Chatham Islands to Antarctica, our experts are delivering mobile and broadband coverage to keep communities connected.

The principal purpose of the Design Manager role is to provide effective leadership to a team of Designers ensuring that we have a highly motivated and productive workforce consistently delivering against our customer commitments.

Key activities are as follows:

- Allocation of design tasks to team and monitoring completion.
- Peer review or delegation of peer review tasks sign off estimated and quoted work.
- Developing client relationships and positively engaging to influence in a manner that achieves the right outcomes including by not limited to:

- Spending time at Customer’s office in face-to-face meetings.
- Escalation management.
- Implementing performance improvement initiatives.
- Supervising the activities of Designers to achieve targets and provide quality service.
- Responsible for coaching & mentoring individual team members, performance reviews and performance management processes.
- Ensuring compliance with all company policy, standards, and procedures.
- Demonstrate Safety Leadership through Safety in Design and nurture and develop a Zero Harm culture.
- Support the National Manager in Financial Management and ensuring a profitable and highly utilised business unit.

**Nga pūkenga matua | Important Skills**

Maintaining strong relationships both internally with your team of Designers, plus externally with our customers will be vitally important in this role.

What we will be looking for:

- Proven (5 years+) relevant experience in Design Management and leading programmes of build work including improvement initiatives.
- Engineering Degree preferred, and/or relevant vendor certification may substitute for the formal qualification.
- Proven people leadership with previous experience in developing people, encouraging participation, mentoring, sharing knowledge, performance management.
- Stakeholder management - internal and external (client) including escalation management.
- Experience in bid development and tendering.
- A sound understanding of the commercial & operational requirements of the tendering, design and project management processes.
- Commercial acumen.

**Ko wai mātou | Our Organisation**

Want to know more about what it is like to work at Downer? Then head to our People Site here Or copy and paste the following link into your browser: people.downergroup.co.nz/join-our-utilities-team/

**Me pēhea ki te tono | How to apply**

We are committed to a safe working environment for everyone - all successful applicants will be required to undertake a pre-employment drug test, medical and a Ministry of Justice check prior to starting employment. If you need support with this requirement, please talk to our team.

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