Interior Design Project Manager | Workplace Interiors

About the role

Corgan is a welcoming and supportive environment that provides significant career advantages. You’ll find room to grow, freedom to explore — and the safety to fail.

Responsibilities

• Tackle these responsibilities alongside a team of creative, highly motivated individuals who are passionate about their work and ready to collaborate to achieve outstanding results.
• Develop competitive fee structures reflecting defined scope of services for project pursuits.
• Establish and manage project schedules.
• Oversee the completion of projects on time and within fee budget.
• Anticipate, understand and manage client expectations.
• Provide leadership to staff by identifying project studio team members’ roles and responsibilities, leveraging their strengths, providing stretch opportunities, and offering mentorship.
• Motivate the project team to meet project goals through encouragement and/or course correction.
• Oversee the selection of materials, furnishings, fixtures, and equipment.
• Oversee administration of construction phase procedures and documentation (shop drawings/submittals, requests for information, and addenda/clarifications).
• Oversee development and presentation of appropriate technical solutions to project stakeholders.
• Drive the coordination of internal staff, external consultants and other stakeholders to achieve a cohesive and collaborative project team.
• Attend and conduct presentations.
• Actively explore and recognize new business opportunities through professional networks.
• Drive each project team to seek innovation in design solutions in an ongoing spirit of curiosity, continuous improvement, and increased project performance.
• Develop effective project directives, outlines, projections, schedules, and strategies over the course of the project.
• Oversee development and communication of appropriate project phasing.
• Manage all facets of project production resulting in a thorough set of documents.
• Identify solutions and effectively resolve technical challenges.
• Understand and apply appropriate industry standards and construction practices.
• Oversees, and is responsible for, the identification, understanding and documentation of regulatory agencies’ requirements, as well as recognizing and resolving code-related design issues.
• Oversee quality assurance processes and quality control of project documents.
• Demonstrate, share, and appropriately apply, new methodologies, practices, codes, and products.

Requirements

• Degree from a CIDA accredited Interior Design program or equivalent.
• 12+ years of experience in commercial design; Workplace experience preferred.
• Professional registration.
• Display strong design portfolio showing strengths in conceptual design, space planning skills and detailing.
• Demonstrated skills in developing design schemes and coordinating design teams.
• High commitment to QA/QC.
• Revit proficiency and technical excellence.
• Thorough understanding of how a drawing set goes together.
• Acumen for how things are built and constructability, and the ability to apply that knowledge to support the project design and budget.
• Knows how to research and document codes for specific projects.
• Experience managing a variety of consultants and contractors.
• Interest in sustainable design.
• Effective organizational and communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Flexible attitude.
• Proficiency or experience with managing overall project fees and schedules.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully manage client and team relationships including overall work plan development and sub-consultant coordination efforts.
• Successful record of pursuing new projects through business development, marketing, and client satisfaction.
• Confident presentation ability.
• Potential travel opportunities.

Benefits

This role is an in-office position. Regular, reliable on-site attendance is an essential function of this role.

Pay

Base Salary Range: $100,000 - $130,000 annually - Los Angeles locations only

Schedule

This position is designated as full-time on-site and requires the employee to be physically present at the assigned office location Monday through Friday during standard business hours.