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About the Role
This Darwin-based role is responsible for leading, coordinating, and controlling the design process across all project phases to ensure compliant, coordinated, buildable, and commercially aligned design outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the end-to-end design process from concept through to construction and handover
- Establish, implement, and maintain the Design Management framework across the division
- Establish and manage project-specific Design Management Plans, including design scope, deliverables, responsibilities, and review gateways
- Provide design leadership aligned with project objectives, construction methodology, procurement strategy, and commercial drivers
- Ensure design documentation supports buildability, constructability, safety in design, and efficient sequencing, while identifying and managing design-related risks and opportunities
- Coordinate architectural, structural, civil, and building services disciplines into fully integrated design solutions
- Establish and manage design programmes to achieve key milestones, statutory approvals, and construction issue dates
- Lead design workshops, coordination meetings, user group sessions, and value engineering activities
- Review and approve design documentation and drive the timely resolution of design issues, RFIs, clashes, and inconsistencies
- Lead the engagement, novation, briefing, and management of design consultants, monitoring their performance against programme, quality, and contractual requirements
- Act as the primary interface between consultants, internal project teams, subcontractors, authorities, and clients on design matters
- Manage statutory approvals and ensure designs comply with the BCA, NCC, Australian Standards, authority requirements, and project-specific obligations
- Oversee HSEQ-in-Design processes and ensure sustainability requirements and targets are embedded, documented, and verified
- Ensure design outcomes align with project budgets, cost plans, and procurement strategies, including value engineering, trade packaging, variations, and consultant fee claims
- Oversee design document control and quality assurance while leading, mentoring, and building the capability of Design Coordinators and other design team members
Requirements
- Tertiary qualification in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management or a related discipline
- Eight to 12 years or more of design management experience within the construction or major projects environment
- Demonstrated experience managing complex, multidisciplinary design teams across large-scale projects
- Strong understanding of construction methodology, sequencing, procurement, and commercial drivers
- Expert knowledge of the BCA, NCC, Australian Standards, statutory approval processes, and authority requirements
- Proven leadership, negotiation, and stakeholder management capability
- Highly developed problem-solving, planning, and decision-making skills
- Advanced ability to interpret, review, and integrate architectural and engineering documentation
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and industry-standard document control and collaboration platforms such as Aconex, Revizto, and Bluebeam
Skills
- Design Management
- Construction Methodology
- Sequencing
- Procurement
- Commercial Drivers
- BCA
- NCC
- Australian Standards
- Statutory Approval Processes
- Authority Requirements
- Leadership
- Negotiation
- Stakeholder Management
- Problem-Solving
- Planning
- Decision-Making
- Documentation Interpretation
- Documentation Review
- Documentation Integration
- Microsoft Office
- Aconex
- Revizto
- Bluebeam
Location
- Darwin
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 8-12 years
- Senior
Education Level
- Tertiary qualification in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management or a related discipline
About the Company
- Established in 1987, DCOH is an experienced construction and development company operating across residential, commercial, hospitality, and real estate sectors.
- They have a strong track record delivering complex projects, including award-winning work such as the Charles Darwin University Danala Education and Community Precinct, recognised with a 2025 National Master Builders Award of Excellence.
- With operations in both the Northern Territory and Victoria, they deliver high-quality projects with a clear focus on buildability, programme certainty, and strong on-site execution.
- Driven by a commitment to Building Better, DCOH combines experience, innovation, and disciplined execution, creating lasting value for their clients, partners, and the communities they serve.