Architectural Design Manager - K-12 Capital Programs & Modernization (DSA)

About the role

LAUSD's Facilities Services Division plans, designs, and builds the District's new schools, modernizations, and repair projects. As Design Manager, you manage the District's design process on your assigned projects, so that every set of plans stays inside the program, the budget, the schedule, and the environmental and legal requirements. You carry several projects at once. For each one you select the architecture or engineering firm best suited to the work, give that firm clear direction on goals, standards, site, schedule, and budget, and run the design review to confirm the design meets LAUSD's educational and building standards. You review design changes so projects stay within budget, coordinate review and approval by DSA, the Division of the State Architect, the state office that approves public school construction, and report on planning and design status with your findings and recommendations.

Responsibilities

• The District's design process on assigned projects, from programming and early design through construction documents the District can build from
• Several projects at once, with the architects, engineers, consultants, and District staff on each one
• Selection of the architecture or engineering firm best suited to each project
• Clear direction to design firms on goals, standards, site, schedule, and budget
• Design review against LAUSD's educational and building standards
• Review of design changes so projects stay within budget
• Coordination of DSA review and approval
• Status reports on planning and design, with findings and recommendations

Requirements

• 8 years of full-time professional experience managing facilities design, or planning and coordinating capital projects that included the overall design, contract administration, cost estimating, and scheduling
• 4 of those years on the design, planning, and construction of educational facilities or similar public agencies
• A bachelor's degree in architecture or engineering
• Clear writing and the judgment to direct several design firms and projects at once

Qualifications

• A current California Certificate of Registration as an Architect, or a Professional Engineer license
• DSA experience
• Modernization and repair work on campuses that stay open while the work happens
• Cost estimating and scheduling during design

Pay

Salary range: $167,0