Title:  HV/LV Design Manager

About the project – SA Water Capital Delivery Programme:

In a JV with Guidera O’Connor, John Holland is delivering capital projects for SA Water under a four-year framework agreement for up to $500m, focused on water services across southern metropolitan Adelaide and regional areas of SA.

About the role:

The SA Water Capital Delivery Program team is currently looking for an experienced HV/LV Design Manager to join the team, based in the Corporate SA Water project office in Adelaide CBD.

Reporting into the Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for leading and managing the design delivery process, function, and team within the project life cycle to maximise the winning of work and deliver successful project outcomes.

Responsibilities of the role include:

• Plan and control the delivery of project design to ensure the achievement of quality, completion, and project objectives.
• Select and engage, then monitor the performance of external design partners within the discipline, including their deliverables, costs, and timeframes.
• Prepare budgets and schedules of design delivery for management approval, then manage and report the cost of design delivery in the project life cycle.
• Produce Work Orders for subcontractors, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
• Coordinate and manage different packages of work, including SAPN, consultants, and our investigations team.
• Conduct or arrange internal reviews of work to ensure quality before submission to the client.
• Ensure compliance with client design standards such as TS104, TS107, and other applicable standards.
• Supervise the work of subordinate design and drafting staff to ensure project requirements are met.
• Understand design compliance and reporting procedures and processes and lead in the communication of requirements.
• Foster interaction between design and construction teams to maximise innovation and project success.
• Perform all duties in accordance with John Holland policies, processes, systems, and procedures.

To be successful in this key role, you must have:

• Tertiary Qualification in Architecture, Building, Construction, Engineering, or Quantity Surveying.
• Essential background in HV/LV electrical design.
• Typical 5–10 years in technical management roles on significant projects.
• 5+ years of Design experience.
• 5–8 years of Construction experience.
• Multi-discipline project experience in Building, Construction, and Design.
• Proven commercial and legislative compliance skills and design frameworks and systems.
• Ideally be Adelaide-based, or able to attend Adelaide regularly (approximately once a fortnight).

As part of the team, you help us deliver on our promise to transform lives

Your success is reflected in ours, so we're committed to being an employer of choice. We pride ourselves on having a diverse and inclusive workplace, as different perspectives and ideas will deliver our long-term success.

We want you to be with us for the long-term, so providing you with rich career experiences and ongoing development is our priority.

What's in it for you when you join John Holland?

We're about connecting your sense of purpose to ours. We understand that your career is one of the biggest ways to have an impact on the world. We also believe in supporting you as a whole person, not just an employee.

We reward and support our people in so many ways. This starts with being flexible about how different people like to work. From industry-leading leave policies to wellbeing and relationship support, your needs sit at the heart of our employee benefits.

We offer:

• Competitive remuneration with salary continuance, and salary sacrifice options.
• Great leave benefits including 18 weeks paid parental leave with super and up to an extra 18 weeks of super paid on further periods of unpaid parental leave, multicultural leave exchange and two extra days to prioritise your wellbeing.
• Career progression underpinned by our exciting pipeline of work means you'll have the opportunity to work on iconic projects that are shaping cities and communities.
• Learning and development opportunities where you’ll have access to emerging talent programs, building your career through clear career pathways, plus technical and leadership training and development opportunities.
• Inclusion, diversity and equity is part of how we work. We want everyone at John Holland to feel that they belong – that’s why we’re working hard every day to foster a more inclusive culture, backed by a business-wide inclusion strategy to bring about meaningful change. We’ve also got active employee resource groups that support our commitments including those around gender equality and reconciliation.
• Flexible working that works for you as we know flexibility means different things to different people. Whether its flexi-hours, flexi-parenting, flexi-leave, flexi-shifts, flexi-work, we're committed to helping our people work flexibly.