Design Lead

Drive technical delivery and project excellence by leading design team development, and governance, while fostering a culture of quality, innovation, and collaboration across their portfolio.

How you'll make a difference

• Manage the design execution functions within the Western Australian and South Australian regional businesses.
• Identify techniques to improve quality and enhance operational excellence.
• Implement continuous improvement and manage revision control, life-cycle replacement and assessment/management of changes to design software platforms.
• Undertake recruitment, development, and succession planning for team.
• Foster a supportive and inclusive work environment, empowering team members to take ownership of their responsibilities and encouraging their professional development.
• Ensure delivery excellence across all projects, maintaining high standards of quality, safety, and client satisfaction.

The qualifies that help you thrive

• Relevant tertiary or vocational training in engineering design and drafting, or engineering technology
• Experience and certification in the use and administration of a range of design/drafting platforms including;
• Autodesk suite (Advance Steel, Plant 3D, Civil 3D, Revit)
• Bentley suite (Microstation)
• Design Data Management platforms (Autodesk Vault, ProjectWise)
• Relevant team leadership and business leadership experience in consulting engineering within the mining and/or industrial sectors

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges.

Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities.

AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.