Drafting Team Lead

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WSP's SA/NT Mining team is seeking an experienced Drafting & Design Team Lead to lead and develop our drafting capability across mining, industrial, sustaining capital and brownfields projects.

This is a leadership role for someone who enjoys developing people, improving delivery processes and supporting project teams to achieve high-quality outcomes. You may currently be a Drafting Manager, Lead Designer, Drafting Coordinator or Senior Designer looking to take the next step in your career.

What you’ll do:

Reporting to the Engineering Manager – SA/NT Mining, you will lead a distributed drafting and design team across Australia and WSP's Global Delivery Centre in India.

Working closely with Project Managers, Engineers and Discipline Leads, you will provide leadership across resource planning, team development, drafting standards and project delivery. This role combines people leadership with operational involvement, ensuring projects are supported by a high-performing and well-coordinated drafting function.

The team delivers studies and sustaining capital projects for major mining clients including BHP and other leading resource companies. Your day to day will include;

• Lead, mentor and develop drafting and design personnel across local, interstate and global delivery teams.
• Manage resource planning, utilisation and workload across multiple projects.
• Support Project Managers and Discipline Leads to align drafting resources with project requirements.
• Drive consistency, quality and best practice across drafting and design deliverables.
• Develop and maintain drafting standards, quality processes and digital delivery workflows.
• Strengthen collaboration between drafting and engineering teams across multiple disciplines.
• Support capability development, succession planning and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Promote a strong culture of safety, quality and delivery excellence.

About you:

You may already be leading a drafting team, or you may be an experienced designer who has naturally stepped into leadership responsibilities through mentoring others, coordinating workloads, improving systems and supporting project delivery. You will bring strong technical credibility, excellent communication skills and a genuine passion for developing people and enabling teams to succeed. Ideally, we are also looking for the below background;

Essential Experience

• Experience in drafting and design within mining, resources, industrial or heavy industry environments.
• Leadership experience, either in a formal role or through coordinating and mentoring teams.
• Strong understanding of engineering project delivery and multidisciplinary design environments.
• Experience planning resources and supporting multiple concurrent projects.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management and organisational skills.

Preferred Experience

• Mechanical or Piping drafting and design background.
• Experience with Bentley MicroStation, AutoCAD, Plant 3D, OpenPlant, ProjectWise, Navisworks, Aconex or similar platforms.
• Experience with Tier 1 mining clients and multidisciplinary consulting project environments.
• Experience working with offshore or global delivery teams.
• Brownfields sustaining capital or operational site project experience.

Why WSP?

• Step into a visible leadership role with the opportunity to shape a growing drafting and design function.
• Join a supportive SA/NT Mining team with flexible working arrangements and strong career development opportunities.
• Access national and global technical networks, delivery teams and career pathways.
• Help develop the next generation of drafting and design professionals