Design Lead - Water Networks & Growth

Communities are fundamental. Whether around the corner or across the globe, they provide a foundation, a sense of place and of belonging. That's why at Stantec, we always design with community in mind.

Our Water Division is experiencing significant growth, presenting the opportunity for a Design Lead based in our Sydney team and specifically within our West Region Delivery Team for Sydney Water.  The team has a strong focus on the design and delivery of Networks & Growth Projects, including the upgrade and renewal of water and wastewater network infrastructure, and large new greenfield infrastructure assets servicing growth in Western Sydney. This position is crucial for providing technical expertise during project delivery and leading diverse technical teams to develop and deliver the most appropriate technical solution for key water and wastewater projects.

About the role:
The Design Lead is accountable for leading the Project Technical Team to develop and deliver the most appropriate design for construction on budget and in accordance with the overall project program. This role will work closely with the Project Manager and Technical Leads for the delivery, efficiency and quality of all design deliverables. The Design Lead will coordinate all multi‐disciplinary activities and inputs by the engineering and technical teams, including specialist inputs from procurement, construction, and maintenance teams to ensure an integrated design solution.

The Design Lead personally contributes to the technical delivery of the outputs. The Design Lead is often a discipline lead, a task lead on large projects, or as a check or review resource of progressive and final deliverables.

The Design Lead is responsible for managing time cost and quality in production of the design.  Regular reporting of progress and forecasting is a requirement of the role.  The Design Lead must manage the delivery of design in accordance with the scope and is responsible for change management at the project level.

The role is based in Sydney Olympic Park offices.

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for delivering outputs on time and in accordance with the allocated budgets and ensuring they are endorsed by the client.
• Ensure all technical outputs conform to the project scope, are safe and are of appropriate quality (confirmed by independent review).
• Manage scope change through established systems and processes
• Deliver design to the required quality standards using diverse teams.
• Managing multi-disciplinary teams in a professional services or project delivery environment, able to work within a matrix structure.
• Exercises independent judgement, initiative and in-depth evaluation of various factors for addressing and resolving unusual and complex issues or situations.
• Considered an internal subject matter expert who applies advanced practical and theoretical knowledge to the wider engineering design team.
• Working inclusively with the Client and key stakeholders during the development of technical solutions, and present technical outcomes throughout, during handovers and at the end of the project.
• Technical Planning activities, including confirming the technical delivery methodology; identifying and coordinating all technical resource needs; undertaking forward planning and tracking progress of all technical activities.
• Technical delivery activities, including implementing a sound and efficient methodology; leading the planning and production of all technical deliverables; implementing an efficient and effective checking and review process; ensuring safety, innovation and sustainability are properly addressed in the technical outputs; minimise re-work by assisting the Project Manager with identifying and effectively handling scope creep and variations; capture Intellectual Property and sharing technical knowledge.
• Provide regular monitoring and reporting on schedule, budget, quality, resources, and scope, and proposed corrective action to remedy situation(s) requiring attention.
• Communicate and coordinate all quality reviews, schedules, status, and modifications with Design Quality teams and Discipline reviewers.
• Provide direction to Discipline reviewers on the location, schedule, job number, cost code(s), response period, etc. for each submittal review.
• Notify required discipline/quality leads immediately of any changes to design and subsequent review schedules.
• Coordinate with other program Leads to estimate project design budgets and develop a design delivery schedule that works with the other project functions such as estimating, procurement, construction, commissioning etc.
• Identify and mentor technical staff.
• Contribute to proposal and bid development to support business development activities, including preparing proposal material as required and budget for client business cases
• Complete all work in line with Stantec Core Values and in accordance with the Stantec Quality, Safety & Environment Systems and Project Quality Procedures.
• Minimise and control risk by commitment to the Stantec Quality, Health & Safety programmes and ensuring proactive use of our project management systems.
• Other duties as reasonably required.