Senior Manager, Infrastructure Design and Planning

Senior Manager, Infrastructure Design and Planning

Location: Parramatta

Employment type: Ongoing (Permanent) Full time

Salary: Clerk Grade 11/12 ($145,378 - $168,130 pa), plus employer’s contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading

Your role

The Senior Manager leads the Infrastructure Design and Planning team at the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ). It plays a critical role in the successful delivery of infrastructure and construction programs focusing on the design of office accommodation across DCJ. This role ensures that the design aspect of infrastructure projects are effectively planned, designed, and implemented in alignment with broader organisational goals.

What you’ll do

As part of the Infrastructure Design and Planning Team within Infrastructure and Assets, as the Senior Manager oversees a team responsible for the design of infrastructure projects, from strategic planning including the development of design standards to project work, delivering in-house design work and advisory support. Day-to-day, the role involves understanding the pipeline of work to manage team resourcing and milestones whilst ensuring alignment with organisational goals. The role requires site visits, team leadership, reviewing the teams design work to ensure consistency and pushing for continuous improvement, managing contracts and engaging external providers such as architects and subconsultants, identifying projects risks, and ensuring all approvals are sought to keep objectives on track.  The Senior Manager will often collaborate with their immediate Capital Planning and Investment team including planning and leasing and security to achieve their goals, but also support and collaborate more widely across DCJ and their stakeholders.  

The Infrastructure Design and Planning team operates within a dynamic and collaborative environment. The team is made up of 11 skilled professionals, primarily interior designers and architects that work in a supportive environment that values innovation, quality, and purpose-driven outcomes. The team operates flexibly in the Parramatta office or on site, fostering a strong, inclusive culture.

What we’re looking for

The ideal candidate will need to be able to work in a dynamic operating environment with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities to support outcomes. Good time management, agility and prioritisation skills are required in addition to the appropriate architectural and/or design qualifications with a minimum of 10 years’ experience.

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What We Offer

We offer a variety of benefits, including:

• A challenging and rewarding career
• Flexible, autonomous work environment
• Competitive pay and conditions
• Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities
• Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.

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We do work that really matters

Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It’s work that really matters.

Apply now and join Australia’s top public sector employer where we will support you and provide an exciting and flexible working environment!

Are you ready to join us?

Click apply, attach a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) outlining how you meet the requirements of the role as well as an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages).

Applications close Thursday, 8th May 2025 at 11:59pm AEST.

Got a question?

For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Cathy Baker, Director, Capital Planning and Investment on 0436 655 405 or at cathy.baker@dcj.nsw.gov.au

If you’ve got a question about applying or would benefit from an adjustment in the recruitment process to help you perform at your best (including an alternate method submission of the application), please call Sarah Nguyen on 02 9765 5046 or via thikimyen.nguyen@dcj.nsw.gov.au   

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Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit

We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.

To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit Inclusion and diversity on the DCJ website.

Other Information

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