Lendlease

Design Manager - ICT

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Full time

Lendlease is a globally integrated real estate group with core expertise in Investment Management, Development, and Construction. For more than 60 years, we have created thriving places around the globe.  

About the Role:

With a national delivery capability, Lendlease Construction provides innovative and industry-leading project management, design and construction services driven by sector focused knowledge and experience. We push boundaries and embrace challenges. Our clients come to us when it’s important to handle complexity, drive diversity, offer strategic and long-term value, and to create innovative and sustainable solutions. 

We are currently for a Design Manager to lead the design and delivery of Group 2 and 3 ICT systems on a major health project in Adelaide. This role is critical in ensuring ICT solutions are high quality, fit for purpose, fully integrated and delivered in line with client, safety and sustainability expectations.

Reporting to the ICT Project Manager, you will act as the subject matter expert across a broad portfolio of ICT and digital health systems, guiding them from early design through to package management during delivery.

What you'll be responsible for:

  • Lead design management across a wide range of ICT and digital health technologies, transitioning into package management during delivery

  • Act as the key interface between consultants, trade partners, client representatives and internal stakeholders

  • Drive design quality, value optimisation and fitness for purpose across all technology packages

  • Represent Lendlease in technical working groups and digital health forums

  • Coordinate design deliverables, approvals, departures and change management processes

  • Support technology integration, including run‑up rooms and system interoperability

  • Establish and manage design quality frameworks, document control and digital engineering processes

  • Collaborate closely with construction, commercial and delivery teams to ensure seamless outcomes

  • Compliance with Lendlease Global Minimum Requirements (GMRs) and EHS in Design obligations

  • Risks are identified, eliminated or mitigated throughout the design lifecycle

  • Sustainability targets (Green Star, NABERS, WELL) are embedded into design outcomes

  • Strong project governance, reporting, cost control and stakeholder engagement

Technology scope includes (but is not limited to):

  • Nurse Call, Patient Engagement & Registration Systems

  • Audio Visual Technology & Electronic Wayfinding

  • Networking (WAN/LAN/WLAN), Compute & Storage

  • Unified Communications & Messaging Integration

  • RTLS, End User Compute & Print

  • Public Announcement and Master Clock Systems

About you:

  • Proven experience managing ICT and/or digital health design on large, complex infrastructure projects

  • Strong understanding of integrated technology systems within healthcare or mission‑critical environments (highly regarded)

  • Demonstrated capability leading multidisciplinary consultant teams

  • Experience transitioning from design management into delivery / package management

  • Excellent stakeholder management, communication and problem‑solving skills

  • A strong commitment to safety, quality, sustainability and collaboration

  • Relevant qualifications in ICT, engineering or a related discipline will be highly regarded.

Benefits of working at Lendlease: 

  • Health & Well-being programs, including well-being leave to relax and recharge, health assessments, and gym/exercise discounts 

  • Balance your career and personal life with work flexibility, purchase additional annual leave and extensive family support benefits.  

  • 3x extra Wellbeing days per year (on top of annual leave).  

  • Large pipeline of project work for career development and growth opportunities 

  • Bonus scheme, Employee Share Acquisition program and options for salary sacrificing.  

If you are interested, please submit your application via the link today.

At Lendlease we offer workplaces that unite diverse minds; where respect, equitable treatment and equitable opportunity are just the norm. We remain committed to supporting under-represented groups and providing a wide range of inclusion initiatives, so that everyone is supported to thrive.

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is reflected in our Elevate Reconciliation Action Plan, our Bronze Award with the Australian Workplace Equality Index by Pride in Diversity, and our generous parental leave policy of 26 weeks to any parent regardless of gender.

Lendlease welcomes applicants regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, people with a disability, sexual orientation, or life stage. If you do not meet all the criteria or require adjustments to proceed with your application, we encourage you to reach out for a further discussion.