Design Manager

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Lycopodium seeks a Design Manager to join the Perth team onsite, reporting to the General Manager Engineering. You will lead design management across projects, ensuring technical compliance, quality, safety, cost, sustainability and performance. The ideal candidate has 15 years in mineral processing or related industries, a mechanical engineering degree, and proven design leadership for studies and detailed design, with gold base metals ore or lithium experience preferred. You should coordinate design and drafting resources, mentor staff, build client relationships, and travel for site support. To apply, tailor your CV to show leadership impact, delivery, budget discipline and innovation; highlight client engagement and Perth relocation readiness.

With offices in Australia, Canada, USA, Southern Africa, Ghana, Philippines, Argentina and Peru, Lycopodium proudly delivers high quality professional engineering and project delivery services globally, across the resources, infrastructure and industrial processes sectors. By joining our global team and learning from renowned subject matter experts, we can offer you a diverse career that could take you anywhere in the world.

Due to a growing level of secured studies and projects we are looking for a Design Manager to join our Perth team. 

Reporting to the General Manager Engineering, you will lead design management activities in consultation with all project stakeholders to ensure that standards of technical compliance, quality, cost, safety, sustainability and environmental performance are observed and that time schedules are met.

Responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Monitoring the progress and performance of the project design team, giving input and providing feedback and support where necessary.
• Coordinating the multi-discipline design and drafting resources assigned to allocated tasks to achieve agreed deliverable dates and man-hour budgets.
• Consistently providing engineering designs and solutions within agreed milestone dates and to a high standard of accuracy and professionalism.

You will possess:

• Experience in gold, base metals ore or lithium preferred.
• Relevant tertiary education qualifications in Engineering (Mechanical or equivalent).
• Minimum of 15 years’ experience in mineral processing or related industries.
• Demonstrated credentials in mechanical engineering design for studies and detailed design.
• High attention to detail and exceptional knowledge across a broad range of disciplines.
• Excellent written, communication and supervisory skills.
• Demonstrated commitment to providing high quality service to Clients within budget and time constraints.
• Extensive understanding of mine operation challenges, expectations, requirements and risk management process
• Willingness to travel (within and outside Australia) on short-term assignments for site support and key client engagement.
• Ability to build and sustain positive relationships with all stakeholders, including Clients.
• Commitment to continuously seek improvement in engineering solutions and design with a focus on new technologies and innovation.
• Ability to work with mining operations to identify opportunities and win work for the business.
• Intuitive leadership skills with the ability to initiate, lead and manage change in a complex environment.
• Proven commitment to provide mentoring and identify avenues of professional development and succession planning to personnel within your team.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an expanding company that has built its success on a solid reputation of delivering world-class projects, providing reliable and flexible service and developing long-term customer relationships.

Lycopodium is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering diversity and maintaining a discrimination free workplace, guided by our core values of Respect, Integrity and Diligence. 

As part of our commitment to providing the best possible care and service to you the candidate, we commit to respond to every applicant.

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