Design Manager

About the role

The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including the disabled and veterans. Provide experienced leadership of Comprehensive Design Services for advanced/alternative design and construction delivery contracts.

Responsibilities

• Partner with designated project and discipline leads from the design and construction teams to ensure design is fully integrated into the overall execution of a design excellence project.
• Guide all design decisions to maintain program requirements, schedule, budget, quality commitments and customer delight as well as facilitating team coordination, constructability, and design quality reviews.
• Pursue and support proposal development with written narratives, visual images, and graphics.
• Guide the "Winning" strategy during project pursuits.
• Attend presentation preparations and develop presentation skills.
• Review A/E scope, contract terms, and lead design fee discussions.
• Guide the design team through testing program, materials, codes, building systems and constructability.
• Champion innovation and the best possible project for the customer, within program, quality, budget, schedule, and sustainability constraints.
• Aid project teams with maintaining design in alignment with Owner approved budget and schedule thru routine reviews.
• Provide peer reviews and write-ups.
• Lead meetings and monitor the Design Decision Log.
• Assist with determining functionality and quality of the design team's solution and documents.
• Track follow-up items for design team action and information needed from WT, subcontractors, vendors and/or the client to keep the design moving forward.
• Manage the flow of information from the client to the design team, and vice versa.
• Regularly attend construction meetings and conduct site walks with design team.
• Help WT project team with design related issues during construction.
• Ensure design team completes their project construction phase and close-out commitments.
• Support the Design Management initiative through building resource tools.
• Maintain one professional license and get involved in approved associations.
• Look for ways to improve our approach to benefit our customers, our build partners and design/trade teammates.
• Facilitate a healthy integrated team structure and workflow.
• Facilitate day-to-day activities of how a Design Manager sustain trust between themselves and all design, construction and owner team members and create an environment of idea sharing, fairness, inclusion, diversity of thought and professionalism.
• Participate in regional and national professional organizations.

Qualifications

• Experience leading comprehensive design services for advanced/alternative design and construction delivery contracts.
• Proven ability to guide design decisions to meet program requirements, schedule, budget, quality commitments, and customer delight.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with project and discipline leads.
• Ability to manage and review design team solutions and documents.
• Knowledge of construction processes and materials, codes, and building systems.
• Experience with proposal development and presentation skills.
• Proficiency in maintaining design alignment with budget and schedule.
• Ability to facilitate team coordination and constructability reviews.
• Professional licenses and involvement in relevant associations.
• Experience in supporting business development initiatives.
• Effective facilitation of team structures and workflows.
• Ability to foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment.
• Experience in regional and national professional organizations.

Skills

• Project management
• Design coordination
• Team leadership
• Proposal development
• Communication skills
• Construction knowledge
• Customer service
• Professional development
• Collaboration
• Innovation

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

Not specified.

Schedule

Not specified.