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About the Role
The Roads and Highways team is seeking an experienced Project Manager/Design Manager – Highways in Sydney to manage and deliver Iconic Australian projects. This role involves shaping and growing the design management offering and supporting growth within the wider transport team, focusing on embedding technical excellence. The position demands strong leadership, technical understanding of highways design and construction, and the ability to manage multidisciplinary teams.
Responsibilities
- Oversee the full lifecycle of highway projects, including planning, design, procurement, construction, and close-out.
- Engage with clients, contractors, consultants, and internal teams to ensure alignment and timely decision-making.
- Administer contracts, manage compensation events, and ensure commercial reporting and budget control.
- Lead the development and maintenance of project schedules using tools like Primavera P6, ensuring milestones are met and risks are mitigated.
- Ensure adherence to safety, environmental, and regulatory standards.
- Lead multidisciplinary teams across civil, structural, geotechnical, and digital disciplines, ensuring collaborative delivery.
- Apply lessons learned to improve planning, delivery, and governance processes.
- Leverage tools such as ProjectWise and BIM platforms to interrogate and manage digital design data, workflows, and deliverables.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to capability building through the Highways Academy and internal knowledge-sharing platforms.
- Manage the developments of multi-disciplinary design coordination and project management.
- Diligent approach to quality assurance including team selection, competency management, and design requirements allocation/verification.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in the delivery of Transport infrastructure engineering for design for construction contractors, PPP’s or Alliances.
- Proven ability to manage complex design interfaces and multidisciplinary teams.
- Familiarity with typical client and stakeholder requirements (stage gates, comment close-out, appropriate level of design maturity).
- Understand key technical requirements and identify deliverables and outcomes required to fulfil the client’s scope.
- Strong communication, negotiation, and client relationship skills.
Skills
- Primavera P6
- ProjectWise
- BIM platforms
- Highways design
- Construction
- Project management
- Design management
- Civil engineering
- Structural engineering
- Geotechnical engineering
- Digital engineering
Location
- Sydney
Work Type
- Agile working environment
Experience Level
- 10+ years of experience
Education Level
- Degree in civil engineering or equivalent qualifications
Benefits
- Life, personal accident, and salary continuance insurance
- Employee resource groups including the Inclusive Network for Women, Corporate Social Responsibility and more
- Annual Health Checks and ongoing professional development
About the Company
- Mott MacDonald is a vibrant and forward-thinking employee-owned engineering, management, and development consultancy.
- Working together as a global team we plan, design, deliver and maintain the water, transport, energy, buildings, and wider infrastructure that is integral to people’s daily lives.
- We value excellence in every dimension of our business and continuously seek opportunities to improve what we do and how we do it.
- We employ brilliant people who combine their diverse skills and experiences to achieve brilliant things.
- Whether you want to specialise or broaden your experience, you'll be supported by global specialists eager to share their expertise.
- With numerous opportunities to learn and grow, the possibilities are as diverse as our people.
- Working as a connected global team, we deliver impactful projects that shape the future.
Equal Opportunity
- Mott MacDonald celebrates diversity and inclusion, offering a supportive work environment that values work-life balance, diversity, inclusion, and equity.
- We welcome diverse applicants, including First Nations People, people with disabilities, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and people of all genders, neurodiversity, cultural backgrounds, age groups, and those with intersectional identities.
- We endorse a diverse and inclusive workplace, and look to provide suitable opportunities for employees.